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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead

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

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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$32MEducation$3.4MCommunity Improvement$150kHuman Services$90kHousing & Shelter$50k
02FY2018 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $50k–250k8 grants · $915k
  • $250k+2 grants · $750k
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWOPE CORRIDOR RENAISSANCEUPPER ROOM$450,000
EMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$300,000
GREATER KC LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORP$150,000
THE LITERACY LAB$150,000
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY$150,000
KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT$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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AVENUE OF LIFE: $50k → 8%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $90k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Literacy Kansas City

To advance literacy within the kansas city metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.

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2
Greater Kansas City Building & Construction Trades

Improve wages, benefits and working conditions for members

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3
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
4
Urban League of Nebraska

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…

Human Services
5
Urban League of Kansas Inc

To facilitate economic self-reliance and an improved quality of life for urban league of kansas clients through education, empowerment and self-respect.

Human Services
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The Learning Cooperative Dba Kansas City Academy

Kansas city academy is a personalized learning community that respects individuality, encourages independent thinking, and values creativity in all disciplines.

Education
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The Educator Academy Inc

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.

Education
8
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.

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9
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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10
Kc Tenants

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

Civil Rights
11
Web Dubois Learning Center

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.

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12
Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc

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.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Upper Room Kc; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $34,129,143 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community FoundationEMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER & EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR CHILDR: $300,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUILDING CORP: $150,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LAB: $150,000 · EducationUPPER ROOM KC: $450,000 · Recreation & SportsKansas State University: $150,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER: $100,000 · OtherUNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 500 KANSAS CITY KS PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $75,000 · OtherLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $150,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MO: $90,000 · Human ServicesAVENUE OF LIFE INC: $50,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$34,129,143Education$600,000Recreation & Sports$450,000Other$325,000Community Improvement$150,000Human Services$140,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $34,129,143 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetUPPER ROOM KC: $450,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetEMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER & EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR CHILDR: $300,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUILDING CORP: $150,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $150,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MO: $90,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetAVENUE OF LIFE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Giving the Basics IncHealth Forward Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Giving the Basics Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Horizons Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Horizons Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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