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Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical community issues.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2,405 grants below total $350,288,355 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $357,753,871 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,465,516 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k500 grants · $3.5M
- $10k–50k1178 grants · $24M
- $50k–250k517 grants · $54M
- $250k+210 grants · $269M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kansas University Endowment Association | $24,830,665 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation Inc | $12,000,000 |
| Johns Hopkins University | $10,568,707 |
| Rethink Food NYC Inc | $10,500,000 |
| Sky High Farm Inc | $9,220,000 |
| Kansas City Scholars Inc | $8,195,050 |
| Food and Water Watch | $6,450,000 |
| OASIS | $6,150,000 |
| The Stanley H Durwood Foundation | $6,145,954 |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $6,036,730 |
| Synergy Services Inc | $5,958,584 |
| Cornerstones of Care | $5,526,579 |
| UMKC Foundation | $5,291,259 |
| Missouri Development Finance Board | $5,100,000 |
| St John Paul II Parish | $5,003,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $32.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
1287 repeat relationships — 987 still active in FY2024, 300 since wound down; 403 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association4× · 2017–2024 · $43M · revenue +93%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2024 · $23M · revenue +64%- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital4× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +67%
Funded once
- PAPOWERHOUSE ARTS INCone grant, 2018 · $53M · revenue -28%
- CFCASALENA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $43M · revenue -99% · 57% of their budget
- HFHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $33M · revenue -33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To support the charitable organizations specified in Schedule A, Part I
Patient care and research are offered to provide education to members and students and to offer quality care to individuals without regard to the patients ability to pay.
Alumni association
A presbyterian church related university that provides undergraduate liberal arts education.
Promote private giving and help the university move into the forefront of public higher education.
Embolden creative leaders to transform society through equity, empathy, & imagination.
Strengthening agriculture and the lives of kansans through leadership, education and service.
Improve the health & well-being of the community of jefferson hospital through grantmaking, education, & outreach.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Hills Area Community and the most unlike its peers is George Eastman Museum. 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.
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 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1522 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. 1522 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds POWERHOUSE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CASALENA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TWO RIVER THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL SMART KC INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RETHINK FOOD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FARM INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds VENTURE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT DBA OASIS ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds The Stanley H Durwood Foundation CO The Greater KC Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds A Greener World ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY 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: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees
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 Kansas City Community Foundation 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Two River Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
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.