· Community foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
1431 repeat relationships: 1087 still active in FY2024, 344 since wound down; 270 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association5× · 2017–2024 · $49M · revenue +93%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital5× · 2017–2024 · $27M · revenue +67%
- RFRETHINK FOOD NYC INC2× · 2021–2024 · $26M · revenue +100% · 53% of their budget
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
How this is measured
1553 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1553 of the 2,000 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds POWERHOUSE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds CASALENA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds RETHINK FOOD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds FOOD & WATER WATCH ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL SMART KC INC ↗
- Who funds TWO RIVER THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Horizons ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES ↗
- Who funds SKY HIGH FARM INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT DBA OASIS ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds The Stanley H Durwood Foundation CO The Greater KC Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds A Greener World ↗
- Who funds SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE AGRICULTURE PROJECT INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Greater Kansas City Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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