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GIVING THE BASICS INC
Giving the basics provides essential hygiene products to low-income individuals and families.
$5.4M
Granted FY2024
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Grants
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Communities
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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
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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, United Way ALICE — 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.
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Kc Common Good Inc
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Employment
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Catholic Charities of Central and
Inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes as proclaimed by Jesus Christ, Catholic Charities of Central and Northern Missouri is committed to providing care and creating hope for the lives of the vulnerable through compassionate social…
Human Services
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Kc Tenants
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Civil Rights
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Welcome House Inc
Welcome House is committed to providing a high-quality, moral and open residential program to recovering alcoholics and drug-addicted men facing the difficult transition from treatment, incarceration and homelessness to reintegration back…
Health
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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
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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
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Catholic Charities Inc
Operates homeless & domestic violence shelters, provides counseling, adult day services, food pantry.
Human Services
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Kansas City Christian School
Kansas city christian school association was founded in 1951 and operates a private nondenominational school covering preschool through grade twelve.
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Interfaith Housing and Community Service
To assist low-income homeowners of south central kansas
Community Improvement
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Freedom House Ministries
House of Hope Kansas City is a Christian-based nonprofit organization that exists to rescue the next generation from hurt and trauma. We fulfill this mission by providing a 1) comprehensive , long-term residential therapeutic program for…
Education
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The Cathedral Soup Kitchen Inc
To help people out of food insecurity and champion their pursuit of stability and prosperity.
Human Services
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Restoration House of Greater Kansas City
Bringing hope to survivors of human trafficking through love, guidance and the assurance of a long-term home.
Housing & Shelter
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Mercy Hospital. 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.
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
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 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/123
the rest of the field
11%
1,206/11,019
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.
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO84.7× affinity54 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 Care Foundation of Greater Kc · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Judge C F Moulton Christmas Poor Fund · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · AcruxKC
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to Giving the Basics Inc?
Find your warmest path to Giving the Basics Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines