· Private foundation
George K Baum Foundation
Its FY2020 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of George K Baum Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Harry S. Truman Library & Museum | $20,000 |
| Vibrant Health | $20,000 |
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre | $15,000 |
| MRIGlobal | $10,000 |
| Jewish Family Services | $4,916 |
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 +513% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- UUUNICEF U.S. Funds2× · 2017–2018 · $10k
- JFJewish Foundation of Greater Kansas City2× · 2017–2018 · $10k
- UWUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue -16%
Funded once
- TPThe Pembroke Hill School Development Departone grant, 2017 · $50k
- PIPAWSPERITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +123%
- UIUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INCone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -16%
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.
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
University health physicians provides quality and compassionate healthcare in an environment of academic excellence.
The organization's mission is to create, recruit, grow and retain technology and bioscience businesses in northeast kansas with the ultimate vision to build a more modern, resilient and diverse regional economy.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
A.T. Still University of Health Sciences serves as a learning-centered university dedicated to preparing highly competent professionals through innovative academic programs. The University is committed to continuing its osteopathic…
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turner House Clinic Inc and the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 32 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 TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds MRIGlobal ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UMKC TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ASCEND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Noco Humane ↗
- Who funds MARY BIRD PERKINS CANCER CENTER ↗
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: Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Debruce Foundation · The Baum Family Foundation · Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · The Curry Family Foundation · Hunt Family Foundation · 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.
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