How much did EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Education$254MPhilanthropy$127MCommunity Improvement$52MHuman Services$20MArts & Culture$17MSocial Science$13MPublic Benefit$5.8MEmployment$4.9MInternational$3.4MOther$229M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

principal felllowshipprofessional urbanurban principalsprincipals leadershipleadership cohortcohort relayrelay graduate

2019

principal fellowshipthree-year strategicprofessional urbanurban principalsprincipals leadershipleadership cohortcohort relay

2020

one-time responseresponse covidhonorarium participationparticipation designdesign sessionsession aroundaround eso

2021

heartland sparkspark buildingbuilding entrepreneurincreased studentsstudents graduategraduate preparedprepared learning

2022

travel participatecompetency aroundentrepreneurial-focusedparticipation one-yearone-year equity-focusedcohort ensurebuilding focus

2023

focused blackimplementation district-widedistrict-wide reallearning strategicparticipate learninglearning entrepreneurcurriculum professional

2024

workforce careerbuild staffingstaffing workforceimplementation district-widedistrict-wide reallearning strategicplanning workforce

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 360 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k106 grants · $398k
$10k–50k44 grants · $1.0M
$50k–250k156 grants · $19M
$250k+54 grants · $72M

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.0B

Total assets

Largest grants

GREAT JOBS KC$20,475,583
GREAT JOBS KC$9,634,064
SCHOOL SMART KC INC$5,000,000
EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC$4,646,698
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$3,000,000
EWING MARION KAUFFMAN SCHOOL INC$2,896,698
REAL WORLD INITIATIVES$2,750,000
THE CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI$2,600,000
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES INSTITUTE$2,095,188
REAL WORLD INITIATIVES$2,000,000
GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP NETWORK INC$1,200,000
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER$1,134,935
BIOSTL$1,000,000
HOLY ROSARY CREDIT UNION$1,000,000
PIPELINE INC$1,000,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $15.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 71% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 75% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$687M · 725 repeat orgs$40M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

725 repeat relationships — 251 still active in FY2024, 474 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

725

389

Total granted

$687M

$29M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+30%

Still filing today

68%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

KC
Kansas City Scholars Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $121M · revenue +725% · 95% of their budget
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
8× · 2017–2024 · $104M · revenue +119%
EM
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $39M · revenue +55% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

D
DREAMSPRINGgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $4.3M · revenue +74% · 29% of their budget
WM
William Marsh Rice University Office of Sponsored
one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
BO
Board of Trustees of the
one grant, 2020 · $809k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Kansas City University

Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.

Education

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education

Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.

Education

The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education

Ku Center for Technology Commercialization Inc

The mission of kuctc is to maximize the impact of the university intellectual property for the benefit of the university and society.

Education

Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

Competitive Enterprise Institute

Public policy research/education dedicated to principles of free enterprise & limited government.

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Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition

Cleveland University - Kansas City

To provide a strong, student-centered professional education with a focus in the areas of life sciences and health promotion through education, scholarship, and service.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Pioneers and the most unlike its peers is Westminster University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%8/780

the rest of the field

10%

3,904/38,711

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

726 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2001–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

102

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

256

Early backer (in before they grew)

688/726

Grantees still filing

540/726

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$253,963,744Other$243,153,749Philanthropy$126,959,396Community Improvement$52,380,714Human Services$20,420,843Arts & Culture$16,685,963Social Science$12,975,596

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Health Care Foundation of Greater KcMO158.2× affinity115 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Health Care Foundation of Greater Kc · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's · The H & R Block Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation Of · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation EWING MARION KAUFFMAN FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 452604983 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Global Entrepreneurship Week, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines