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Hallmark Corporate Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k177 grants · $107k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $135,241 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS & NW MISSOURI | $4,750 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY | $2,000 |
| BRIGHT FUTURE FUND | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MO | $2,000 |
| ST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| ST PIUS X HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $2,000 |
| WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY | $1,500 |
| CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER | $1,250 |
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 (FY20–23, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
211 repeat relationships — 128 still active in FY2023, 83 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- UWUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +1%
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY3× · 2020–2022 · $337k · revenue +21%
- KCKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC3× · 2020–2022 · $189k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- UWUnited Way of Greater Kansas Cityone grant, 2017 · $183k
- KCKansas City Repertory Theatre, Incone grant, 2017 · $89k
- LOLyric Opera of Kansas Cityone grant, 2017 · $61k
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Men I Admire Charitable Foundation. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
231 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. 231 of the 677 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 United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COTERIE INC ↗
- Who funds UNICORN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds EcoHealth Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FUND ↗
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 · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Sherman Family Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
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 Hallmark Corporate 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.
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc — 24% of income from government
- Epic Community Services Inc — 4% 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.
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