Missouri · Public charity
Great Jobs Kc Inc
The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.
- $33M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 59
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $170,704
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,518,178
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 45
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Great Jobs Kc Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 58 | $33M | 29% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $27M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $17M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $13M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $10M | 5% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $6.7M | 5% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $3.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umkc Foundation | $20,148,722 | 7 | 21% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $12,313,073 | 7 | n/a |
| Kansas Athletics Inc | $8,937,464 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Central Missouri | $8,332,569 | 7 | n/a |
| Zeta Commercial Driving School Inc | $4,757,811 | 3 | n/a |
| Park University | $4,679,314 | 7 | 1% |
| Rockhurst University | $4,192,945 | 7 | 1% |
| Avila University | $3,980,219 | 7 | 2% |
| Kansas State University | $3,818,974 | 6 | n/a |
| Apex Cdl Institute | $3,689,240 | 3 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umkc Foundation | $20,148,722 | 7 | 21% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $12,313,073 | 7 | n/a |
| Kansas Athletics Inc | $8,937,464 | 7 | n/a |
| University of Central Missouri | $8,332,569 | 7 | n/a |
| Zeta Commercial Driving School Inc | $4,757,811 | 3 | n/a |
| Park University | $4,679,314 | 7 | 1% |
| Rockhurst University | $4,192,945 | 7 | 1% |
| Avila University | $3,980,219 | 7 | 2% |
| Kansas State University | $3,818,974 | 6 | n/a |
| Apex Cdl Institute | $3,689,240 | 3 | n/a |
| Johnson County Community College | $3,072,072 | 7 | n/a |
| Centriq Group | $2,891,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Jr College Dist of Metro Kcmo Dba McC | $2,741,149 | 7 | n/a |
| Mid-America College of Health Sciences Inc | $2,524,132 | 3 | n/a |
| New Reflections Technical Institute | $2,320,392 | 3 | n/a |
| Medical Education Development & Support LLC | $2,045,725 | 3 | n/a |
| Medcerts LLC | $1,943,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Me 2 You Career Academy | $1,671,490 | 3 | n/a |
| Baker University | $1,522,571 | 7 | 1% |
| Kansas State University | $1,511,186 | 7 | n/a |
| Wgu Corporation | $1,223,125 | 7 | 0% |
| William Jewell College | $1,149,390 | 7 | 1% |
| Northwest Missouri State University | $1,142,979 | 2 | n/a |
| T and L Welding Academy | $893,884 | 2 | n/a |
| Copperwood Capital LLC | $871,433 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas City School of Phlebotomy LLC | $754,912 | 3 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Community College Building Corporation | $700,630 | 3 | 6% |
| Donnelly College | $652,775 | 7 | 2% |
| Global Technology Industry Association Inc | $632,944 | 2 | 0% |
| Kansas City Art Institute | $584,215 | 7 | 0% |
| Snapit Solutions LLC | $390,556 | 2 | n/a |
| Seeing Yourself in Science | $318,763 | 3 | 92% |
| Kc Medical Coding Training LLC | $291,858 | 1 | n/a |
| Pawsperity Inc | $283,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Inner-City Computer Stars Foundation | $280,000 | 2 | 1% |
| 160 Driving Academy | $255,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Lincoln University | $252,190 | 7 | n/a |
| Delores Homes Training Center Inc | $236,842 | 2 | n/a |
| Scrub Hub | $173,882 | 2 | n/a |
| Per Scholas Inc | $165,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Empowering Empires | $149,160 | 1 | n/a |
| Made Men Inc | $126,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas School of Barbering | $121,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Warehouseman Training Inc | $120,800 | 2 | n/a |
| Magnolia Beauty Academy LLC | $101,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Cass Career Center | $97,075 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Saint Mary Inc | $92,577 | 2 | 0% |
| Wecode Kc | $75,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Greenfig Micro Education Inc | $65,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Concorde Career College Inc | $60,801 | 1 | n/a |
| Missouri State University | $57,738 | 1 | n/a |
| Kc Massage Institute LLC | $39,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Alpha Robotics | $39,150 | 2 | n/a |
| Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Inc | $37,916 | 4 | n/a |
| University of Miami | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Jerusalem Farm | $32,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Rightfully Sewn Inc | $24,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Agile Group LLC | $22,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Excelsior Springs Area Career Center | $17,200 | 1 | n/a |
| S & S Field of Dreams LLC | $17,100 | 1 | n/a |
| The Sewing Labs | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Goodwill of Western Missouri & Eastern Kansas | $12,137 | 1 | 0% |
| Red Wing Brands of America Inc | $9,933 | 1 | n/a |
| Trinity Career Institute | $9,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Wgu Academy | $9,150 | 1 | 0% |
| Truman Medical Center Incorporated | $8,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Research College of Nursing | $6,750 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Great Jobs Kc Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Lending Help For Students Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Jack J Isgur Foundation
How this is measured
About Great Jobs Kc Inc
- How much does Great Jobs Kc Inc give?
- Great Jobs Kc Inc reported 59 grants totaling $32,526,286 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 45 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Great Jobs Kc Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (99%), Arts & Culture (1%), Employment (0%).
- Who are Great Jobs Kc Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Umkc Foundation ($20M), Curators of the University of Missouri ($12M), Kansas Athletics Inc ($8.9M).
- Does Great Jobs Kc Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Great Jobs Kc Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Sunderland Foundation.
- Where is Great Jobs Kc Inc based?
- Great Jobs Kc Inc is based in MO.
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