· Public charity
Greater Horizons Trust
The mission of GREATER HORIZONS TRUST is to act as a supporting organization of and carrying out the charitable purposes of the greater kansas city community foundation by increasing charitable giving through connecting and educating donors so they can create their charitable legacies to make the world a better place.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Greater Horizons Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Greater Horizons Trust named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- $50k–250k8 grants · $915k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWOPE CORRIDOR RENAISSANCEUPPER ROOM | $450,000 |
| EMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $300,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT | $150,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| THE LITERACY LAB | $150,000 |
| GREATER KC LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORP | $150,000 |
| DELASALLE EDUCATION CENTER | $100,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $90,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS USD 500 | $75,000 |
| AVENUE OF LIFE | $50,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
To advance literacy within the kansas city metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.
Improve wages, benefits and working conditions for members
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
The mission of the urban league of nebraska is to be an empowering voice in the community advocating for economic self-reliance, parity, power, civil rights and equal opportunity for all (see schedule o). the vision of the urban league of…
To facilitate economic self-reliance and an improved quality of life for urban league of kansas clients through education, empowerment and self-respect.
Kansas city academy is a personalized learning community that respects individuality, encourages independent thinking, and values creativity in all disciplines.
We recruit, cultivate, support, and retain a diverse network of empowered and effective educators. we prepare teachers to create transformative and equitable classroom experiences for all students in the communities we serve.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Raise the academic performance level of underserved communities in the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area through educational services and applied state-of-the-art techology.
Unis mission is to partner with kansas citys urban core neighborhoods to bring business, government, and community organizations together to improve prosperity, health, safety & education in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper Room Kc and the most unlike its peers is Emmanuel Family and Child Development Center & Emergency Shelter for Childr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM KC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER & EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR CHILDR ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUILDING CORP ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MO ↗
- Who funds AVENUE OF LIFE INC ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Giving the Basics Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Amazonsmile 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Greater Horizons Trust 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.
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.