· Private foundation
Forster-Powers Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $376k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVILA UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| ST TERESA'S ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| BISHOP WARD HIGH SCHOOL | $45,000 |
| ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| BISHOP MIEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| HEARTSTRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| DONNELLY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| CRISTO RAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| VITAE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| HOLY NAME CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SOCIETY OF OUR LADY OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY | $20,500 |
| BENEDICTINE COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| CONCEPTION SEMINARY COLLEGE CORE | $20,000 |
| JOBONE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- RUROCKHURST UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +31%
- AUAVILA UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $235k · revenue +117%
- HCHeartstrings Community Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- WPWYANDOTTE PREGNANCY CLINIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +127%
- TDTHE DON BOSCO CENTERSone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +16%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +49%
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.
Villa st francis, a catholic, non-profit skilled nursing facility sponsored by the archdiocese of kansas city in olathe, provides dementia care, skilled nursing, respite, and hospice.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
At Catholic Charities, we focus our efforts around three core pillars: Food Access, Mental Health and Housing. Guided by our mission - to serve and enhance human dignity for all people - we provide essential services and foster a sense of…
Catholic care center strives to enhance the dignity and respect of all residents by offering competent, professional, and spiritually nourishing healthcare and supportive services. we strive to know the needs of our residents and provide…
To help residents live to their fullest potential, recognizing the changing needs of each person.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The little sisters of the poor operate st. joseph's home, which provides nursing and residential care for the needy elderly. the home is part of the international congregation of the little sisters of the poor, which was founded in france…
We are a catholic, faith-based organization entrusted with advancing the life-enhancing senior care ministry of the benedictine sisters of duluth, minnesota. we witness to god's love by creating inclusive communities, supporting those we…
Guided by our values, Catholic Charities North Dakota serves people in need and advocates for the common good of all.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
As a catholic healthcare ministry, we provide comprehensive and compassionate care that improves the health of the people we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is Benedictine College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 35 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 ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Heartstrings Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds JOBONE ↗
- Who funds LOS OLIVOS CIS ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WYANDOTTE PREGNANCY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds LALMBA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOMES FROM THE HEART INC ↗
- Who funds FERTILITYCARE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
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 · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · The McGee Foundation · McCullough Family Foundation · Joseph M Fahey and Mary Elizabeth Rogers Fahey Foundation Inc · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · The Sherman Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Horizons · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
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 Forster-Powers Charitable Trust 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.