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George & Ada Ultch Memorial Fund at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
FRIENDSHIP INN KC INC$1,500
SECRET ORDER OF THE KEY INCORPORATED$1,500
BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER INC 052196$1,500
THEATRE IN THE PARK$1,500
LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC$1,500
CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC$1,500
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION$1,014
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$41k · 9 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +65% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

$41k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
65%

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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 · $16k · 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
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

—
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
29/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 FOUNDA…Kansas City Music Foundation: $2,000 · OtherUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES DBA EARLYSTART: $1,510 · OtherDOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS: $1,500 · OtherCHWC INC DBA COMMUNITY HOUSING OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $1,500 · OtherCHARLOTTE HOUSE SERIES INC: $1,500 · OtherLIBERTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 · OtherCITY THEATRE: $1,500 · OtherAFRICAN AMERICAN ARTISTS COLLECTIVE OF KC: $1,500 · OtherBIRTHDAY CONNECTIONS: $1,500 · OtherTHEATRE IN THE PARK: $1,500 · OtherYouth Arts Alliance of Greater Kansas City Inc: $1,500 · OtherBLUE SPRINGS CITY THEATRE: $1,500 · OtherEXPLORE EDUCATIONAL FUNDING FOUNDATION: $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: $16,000 · Human ServicesSupport Kansas City IncCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesODESSA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $1,500 · Human ServicesBishop Sullivan Center Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesARTISTS HELPING THE HOMELESS INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesSLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $1,500 · Human ServicesSecret Order Of The Key Incorporated: $1,500 · Human ServicesKansas City Hospice Inc: $1,500 · Human ServicesUncover KC: $1,500 · Human ServicesLAZARUS MINISTRIES KC: $1,500 · Human ServicesCREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES: $1,500 · Human ServicesKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $4,014 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIAT…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 MUSICART AS MENTORSHIP INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $1,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ART IN THE LOOP FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Arts & CulturePRESSER ARTS CENTER: $1,500 · Arts & CultureCENTER FOR RECORDED MUSIC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $1,500 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,500 · Arts & CultureYOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE COTERIE INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureKC Clay Guild: $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 DevelopmentHeartland Chamber Music LTD: $1,500 · PhilanthropyDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,500 · Philanthropy
Other$38,267Human Services$31,000Arts & Culture$29,464Health$10,000Education$5,156Youth Development$3,000Philanthropy$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSupport Kansas City Inc: $16,000 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 budgetKC MOTHERS IN CHARGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRAINBOW CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS: $3,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUzazi Village: $2,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBLACK REPERTORY THEATRE OF KANSAS CITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetODESSA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHeartland Chamber Music LTD: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetART AS MENTORSHIP INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBishop Sullivan Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS HELPING THE HOMELESS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRIVER OF REFUGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ART IN THE LOOP FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF FISH: $1,500 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESSER ARTS CENTER: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY NETWORK FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUncover KC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $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 budgetTHE COTERIE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKC Clay Guild: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization George & Ada Ultch Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George & Ada Ultch Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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