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George & Ada Ultch Memorial Fund

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.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Arts & Culture$52kHuman Services$31kHealth$12kEducation$9kCrime & Legal$5kHousing & Shelter$5kEmployment$2kRecreation & Sports$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$451k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC$2,500
KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,000
BASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC$1,700
KANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION$1,500
THE RABBIT HOLE KC$1,500
THEATRE IN THE PARK$1,500
SECRET ORDER OF THE KEY INCORPORATED$1,500
CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC$1,500
FRIENDSHIP INN KC INC$1,500
BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER INC 052196$1,500
LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC$1,500
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION$1,014
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ODESSA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 11%CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $2k → 16%UNCOVER KC: $2k → 8%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $3k → 5%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $3k → 5%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $3k → 5%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $3k → 5%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $3k → 5%ARTISTS HELPING THE HOMELESS: $2k → 5%SECRET ORDER OF THE KEY INCORPORATED: $2k → 5%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $2k → 15%BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER INC 052196: $2k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $2k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$40k · 9 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
43

Total granted

$40k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • SK
    Support Kansas City Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +33%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $4k · revenue +65%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $4k · revenue +176%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +53%
  • KC
    Kansas City Music Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • UI
    UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES DBA EARLYSTART
    one grant, 2024 · $2k

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.

1
Kansas City Public Theatre

Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…

Arts & Culture
2
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
3
Kc Fringe Festival Inc

Our mission is to attract diverse people, nuture artists, and strengthen kansas city economically by producing cultural, education, accessible, and affordable events that connect audiences, artists, businesses, and civic organizations. the…

Arts & Culture
4
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

To enrich the lives of everyone in our community through extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences. these experiences are provided through programs, customer service, and education.(continued on schedule o)programs: showcase a…

Arts & Culture
5
Kansas City Chamber Orchestra Inc

The performance of fine classical music in both public and education outreach program concerts, utilizing talented local musicians, and frequently in partnership with other arts and community organizations.

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6
Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City

The mission of the arts council of metropolitan kansas city (dba artskc - regional arts council) is to advance lives through the arts. it does this through key initiatives that support our work: we bring together people, resources and…

Arts & Culture
7
Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc

To inspire, entertain and open minds by creating transformative theatre experiences for all.

Arts & Culture
8
Kc People's Fund
Philanthropy
9
Kansas City Anti Violence Project

To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.

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10
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
11
No Divide Kc

Arts programs for community building

Arts & Culture
12
Kansas City Jazz Orchestra

The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to promoting the rich culture of Kansas City through performance and education. We strive to be a leading voice, ensuring that Kansas City's influential jazz tradition continues to thrive and…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Odessa Community Service Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyWomen & Family Support Serv…Vulnerable Populations Supp…Regional Economic Developme…Fraternity and Sorority Hou…Faith-Based Community Outre…Professional Trade Associat…Crisis Support & Vulnerable…Faith-Based Philanthropic F…
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 21 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%14%5–10yr16%30%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr25%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr13%23%5–10yr16%28%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr25%10%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%2/52
the rest of the field
13%
1,080/8,372

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 61 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
28/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,500 · OtherNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTERGREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION KANSAS CITY MUSIC FOUNDATION — $2,757 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATI…Kansas City Music Foundation — $2,000 · OtherUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES DBA EARLYSTART — $1,510 · OtherTHEATRE IN THE PARK — $1,500 · OtherCHWC INC DBA COMMUNITY HOUSING OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC — $1,500 · OtherEXPLORE EDUCATIONAL FUNDING FOUNDATION — $1,500 · OtherCHARLOTTE HOUSE SERIES INC — $1,500 · OtherBIRTHDAY CONNECTIONS — $1,500 · OtherAFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS COLLECTIVE OF KC — $1,500 · OtherCITY THEATRE — $1,500 · OtherBLUE SPRINGS CITY THEATRE — $1,500 · OtherYouth Arts Alliance of Greater Kansas City Inc — $1,500 · OtherLIBERTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION — $1,500 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS — $1,500 · OtherCENTER FOR RECORDED MUSIC — $1,500 · OtherRIVER OF REFUGE — $1,500 · OtherCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $1,500 · OtherMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $1,500 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF FISH — $1,500 · Other+4 more — $4,000 · Other+4 moreSupport Kansas City Inc — $14,500 · Human ServicesSupport Kansas City IncCREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES — $1,500 · Human ServicesARTISTS HELPING THE HOMELESS INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesLAZARUS MINISTRIES KC — $1,500 · Human ServicesSecret Order Of The Key Incorporated — $1,500 · Human ServicesKansas City Hospice Inc — $1,500 · Human ServicesBishop Sullivan Center Inc — $1,500 · Human ServicesSLEEPYHEAD BEDS — $1,500 · Human ServicesODESSA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $1,500 · Human ServicesUncover KC — $1,500 · Human ServicesCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $4,014 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIA…MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE — $3,250 · Arts & CultureMUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTEBLACK REPERTORY THEATRE OF KANSAS CITY — $2,500 · Arts & CultureBLACK REPERTORY THEATRE OF…BASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC — $1,700 · Arts & CultureBASE ACADEMY OF MUSICKANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALIT…THE ART IN THE LOOP FOUNDATION — $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ART IN THE LOOP FOUNDA…THE RABBIT HOLE KC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE RABBIT HOLE KCKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCE…METROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE — $1,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEA…PRESSER ARTS CENTER — $1,500 · Arts & CulturePRESSER ARTS CENTERBAND OF ANGELS CORP — $1,500 · Arts & CultureBAND OF ANGELS CORPART AS MENTORSHIP INC — $1,500 · Arts & CultureART AS MENTORSHIP INCHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $1,500 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEA…YOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureKC Clay Guild — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COTERIE INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureRAINBOW CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS — $3,000 · HealthRAINBOW C…Uzazi Village — $2,500 · HealthUzazi Vil…FRIENDSHIP INN KC INC — $1,500 · HealthFRIENDSHI…Amethyst Place Inc — $1,500 · HealthAmethyst …COMMUNITY NETWORK FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC — $1,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY…KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $4,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $1,156 · EducationKC MOTHERS IN CHARGE — $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES — $1,500 · PhilanthropyHeartland Chamber Music LTD — $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$39,767Human Services$29,500Arts & Culture$27,964Health$10,000Education$5,156Youth Development$3,000Philanthropy$3,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSupport Kansas City Inc — $14,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $4,014 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE — $3,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRAINBOW CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS — $3,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetKC MOTHERS IN CHARGE — $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBLACK REPERTORY THEATRE OF KANSAS CITY — $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUzazi Village — $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS HELPING THE HOMELESS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER OF REFUGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHeartland Chamber Music LTD — $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ART IN THE LOOP FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESSER ARTS CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF FISH — $1,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetBishop Sullivan Center Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP — $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY NETWORK FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSLEEPYHEAD BEDS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetART AS MENTORSHIP INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetODESSA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUncover KC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIBERTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $1,156 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKC Clay Guild — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE COTERIE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Greater Kansas City C…The Francis Family Fo…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Health Forward Founda…The H & R Block Found…United Way of Greater…Commerce Bancshares F…Richard J Stern Found…Oppenstein Brothers F…Metropolitan Arts Cou…R a Long Foundation 6…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO63.1× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City · 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 George & Ada Ultch Memorial Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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