Missouri · Private foundation
Feist Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $419k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Feist Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $419k | 34% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $302k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $226k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $282k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $242k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $173k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Community Assistance Council Inc | $137,000 | 6 | 3% |
| American Jazz Museum | $125,000 | 5 | 3% |
| The Don Bosco Centers | $111,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Learning Cooperative Dba Kansas City Academy | $86,000 | 6 | 1% |
| St Peter & Paul Heritage Association | $82,000 | 5 | 25% |
| Truman Heritage Habitat for Humanity Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Wonderscope Inc | $49,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Musical Theater Heritage Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Marlborough Community Coalition Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 7% |
| The Schoolhouse Inc | $44,000 | 3 | 26% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($670k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Feist Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Shumaker Family Foundation · Greater Horizons · The Sunderland Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Giving the Basics Inc
How this is measured
About Feist Charitable Foundation
- How much does Feist Charitable Foundation give?
- Feist Charitable Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $419,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Feist Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (24%), Education (13%).
- Who are Feist Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Community Assistance Council Inc ($137k), American Jazz Museum ($125k), The Don Bosco Centers ($111k).
- Does Feist Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Feist Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Feist Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
- Where is Feist Charitable Foundation based?
- Feist Charitable Foundation is based in MO.
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