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Gary Dickinson Family Charitable Foundation
As a supporting organization of the greater kansas city community foundation, the mission of the ann and GARY DICKINSON FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is to provide enhanced access and opportunities to participate in education, recreation, arts, historical preservation, and community development primarily through funding the construction…
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100% of Gary Dickinson Family Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Gary Dickinson Family Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2017
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL | $505,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
| NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER | $75,000 |
| CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOLS - KC | $50,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC | $50,000 |
| KANSAS CITY RESCUE MISSION | $25,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY HOUSE OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY REPERTORY | $10,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–17, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
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 mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To make lyric opera of kansas city indispensable to the public through transformational opera experiences and broad service that capture the hearts and minds of our communities.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Don Bosco Centers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 14 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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER KC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
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 · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Sunderland Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization Gary Dickinson Family 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.
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