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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUMAN HERITAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $60,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| DON BOSCO CENTERS | $30,500 |
| MARION HOPE CENTER | $25,000 |
| KINGDOM ACADEMY LEARNING CENTER | $20,000 |
| PINNACLE WINDS CONCERT BAND | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| THE ARTS ASYLUM | $15,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY | $10,000 |
| MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NE & NW MO | $10,000 |
| THE FOLLEY THEATER | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $202k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $189k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CACOMMUNITY ASSISTANCE COUNCIL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $137k · revenue +45%
- AJAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +47%
- MTMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +232%
Funded once
- IFIn From the Coldone grant, 2021 · $10k
- PWPINNACLE WINDS INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
- VPVFW POST 8100one grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
Provide support for mennonite housing rehabilitation services, inc., which provides low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with ownership opportunities and the…
All of Cornerstone efforts are directed toward interrupting the cycle of homelessness, providing decent, safe, accessible and affordable housing of choice to moderate and low-income households, and revitalizing Topeka neighborhoods.
The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
The kansas city autism training center is committed to helping people on the autism spectrum fulfill their potential through ethical, evidence-based treatment, education, and training.
The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Spot Kc and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstones of Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds THE LEARNING COOPERATIVE DBA KANSAS CITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds St Peter & Paul Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN HERITAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HICKMAN MILLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARTS ASYLUM ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
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.
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
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 organization Feist Charitable 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.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.