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Giving the Basics Inc

Giving the basics provides the necessities of life, not covered by government assistance programs, such as laundry soap, shampoo, deodorant, toilet paper and other personal care hygiene products.

$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
Grants FY2024still arriving
States reached
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

Grant detail is referenced in an attached schedule not included in the e-file. Total reported in the filing: $5,365,079.

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Median grant
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
02The need
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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.

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 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
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
2
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
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
Refuge Kc Inc

We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom

Religion
5
Interfaith Housing and Community Service

To assist low-income homeowners of south central kansas to repair/rehabilitate their homes; to assist qualified low-income residents of south central kansas to purchase homes or to build low-cost homes for these residents; and to provide…

Community Improvement
6
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
7
Care Beyond the Boulevard Inc

Care Beyond the Boulevard (CBB) provides quality medical care, case management, and respite services to the homeless, uninsured, and vulnerable people of Greater Kansas City.

Health
8
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
9
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
10
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

11
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
12
The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc

The Cathedral Soup Kitchen, Inc.'s mission is to help people out of food insecurity and champion their pursuit of stability and prosperity. Our vision is hope, success, and abundance for people in need in Camden. The organization serves a…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Kc and the most unlike its peers is Coryell Cupboard 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 backsteadyChristian Missionary and Ou…Higher Education SupportFaith-Based Social ServicesYouth & Adult Skills Develo…Community Philanthropic Fou…K-12 Education InnovationYouth Sports ProgramsKansas City Charter Schools
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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr13%4%5–10yr16%20%10–20yr15%27%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr23%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%0%10–20yr15%0%20–35yr14%0%35–55yr23%0%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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%0/122
the rest of the field
13%
1,402/11,020

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.

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.

United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO90.9× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Judge C F Moulton Christmas Poor Fund · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Hall Family 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF— 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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