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Geraldine and R a Barrows Foundation 10013700

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$465k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$529kHuman Services$365kHousing & Shelter$257kArts & Culture$111kHealth$98kCrime & Legal$95kFood & Nutrition$95kYouth Development$63kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEART OF AMERICA PATRIOT FOUNDATION$60,000
THE CHILDREN'S PLACE$60,000
ST MICHAELS VETERANS CENTER$50,000
LAZARUS MINISTRIES$40,000
CASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
MARC COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION$25,000
SHEFFIELD PLACE$20,000
RESEARCH FOUNDATION$20,000
KIDS TLC$15,000
CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED$15,000
WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK$15,000
MATTIE RHODES CENTER$15,000
HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$15,000
FRIENDS OF JOHNSON COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL$15,000
ELEVATE METRO KC$15,000
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 (FY20–24, $258k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMIT FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%BUCKNER CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%COMMIT FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%COMMIT FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY: $5k → 5%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $5k → 15%FRIENDS OF JOHNSON COUNTY DEVELOPMENTAL: $15k → 5%EPEC INC: $10k → 15%HOPE CENTER: $10k → 15%EARLYSTART: $25k → 15%EARLYSTART: $10k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES: $40k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE OF JACKSON C: $5k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES: $15k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE OF JACKSON C: $5k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $10k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $10k → 15%True Light Family Resource Center: $3k → 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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$887k · 25 repeat orgs$889k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
48

Total granted

$887k
$644k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+21%

Still filing today

96%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $245k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentOther

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

  • VP
    VALOR PARTNERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $170k · revenue +89%
  • LM
    LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $65k · revenue +24%
  • SP
    SHEFFIELD PLACE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • MS
    METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF
    one grant, 2020 · $186k
  • AR
    AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -36%
  • CI
    CHES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k

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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.

Community Improvement
3
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
4
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
5
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
6
Kansas City Community Land Trust

Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.

Housing & Shelter
7
Kc Tenants

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

Civil Rights
8
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
9
Cornerstone of Topeka Inc

All of Cornerstone efforts are directed toward interrupting the cycle of homelessness, providing decent, safe, accessible and affordable housing of choice to moderate and low-income households, and revitalizing Topeka neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
10
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
11
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
12
Opportunities Inc of Jefferson County

Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/a Mattie Rhodes Center and the most unlike its peers is The Peace Partnership Inc. 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 backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Regional Economic Developme…Kansas City Charter SchoolsPet Rescue and AdoptionFaith-Based Social ServicesFamily Support & Crisis Ser…
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 23 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr13%16%5–10yr16%31%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr25%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%10%5–10yr16%37%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr25%12%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
1,081/8,358

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

64 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. 64 of the 84 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
35/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF — $185,714 · OtherMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OFNEWHOUSE INC — $60,000 · OtherNEWHOUSE INCNAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $47,900 · OtherNAZARENE THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYCHES INC — $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $75,000 · OtherAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INCTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $60,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INCWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $30,000 · Other+36 more — $358,500 · Other+36 moreLAZARUS MINISTRIES KC — $65,000 · Human ServicesLAZARUS MINISTRIE…THE COMMIT FOUNDATION — $55,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMIT FOUNDA…UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CITY…HILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $20,000 · Human ServicesHILLCREST MINISTR…HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Human ServicesHIGH ASPIRATIONS …HOPE HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INCFriends of Jcds Inc — $15,000 · Human ServicesFriends of Jcds I…THE HOPE CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Services League of Jackson County — $10,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC — $10,000 · Human Services+3 more — $12,500 · Human ServicesSHEFFIELD PLACE — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterSHEFFIELD P…ST MICHAEL'S VETERANS CENTER INC — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterST MICHAEL'…CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR …HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR…RESTART INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterRESTART INC+1 more — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterVALOR PARTNERS FOUNDATION — $170,000 · PhilanthropyVALOR PARTN…+1 more — $2,500 · PhilanthropyAVILA UNIVERSITY — $55,000 · EducationELEVATE METRO KC — $25,000 · EducationFRONTIER SCHOOLS INC — $17,282 · EducationPATHWAY FINANCIAL EDUCATION — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationSHERWOOD CENTER FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD — $5,000 · EducationTHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 · HealthCASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $15,000 · HealthLYRIKS INSTITUTION — $5,000 · HealthWelcome House Inc — $5,000 · HealthKANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $30,000 · Arts & CultureCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBAND OF ANGELS CORP — $5,000 · Arts & CultureINTERURBAN ARTHOUSE — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $7,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$847,114Human Services$277,500Housing & Shelter$187,000Philanthropy$172,500Education$117,282Health$90,000Arts & Culture$85,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVALOR PARTNERS FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAZARUS MINISTRIES KC — $65,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $60,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMIT FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetST MICHAEL'S VETERANS CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetTHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $30,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK — $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetELEVATE METRO KC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCURIOUS THEATRE COMPANY — $25,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRESTART INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEARTLAND MENS CHORUS — $17,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFRONTIER SCHOOLS INC — $17,282 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKIDSTLC INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Jcds Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPATHWAY FINANCIAL EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Services League of Jackson County — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNONPROFIT LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPAWSPERITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYRIKS INSTITUTION — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR LIFE - MISSOURI INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSupport Kansas City Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIES — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…E Kemper Carter & Ann…The Sunderland Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Oppenstein Brothers F…William T Kemper Foun…The H & R Block Found…Kearney Wornall Found…The Francis Family Fo…R a Long Foundation 6…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO76.7× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · Kearney Wornall Foundation 10017900 · The Francis 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Geraldine and R a Barrows Foundation 10013700 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%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 84 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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