· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HARVESTERS | $2,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY | $2,000 |
| ST PIUS X HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| ST THERESE CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MO | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BRIGHT FUTURE FUND | $2,000 |
| WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY | $1,500 |
| BAND OF ANGELS | $1,250 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
219 repeat relationships: 128 still active in FY2023, 91 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
How this is measured
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 · $729k
- KCKansas City Repertory Theatre, Incone grant, 2017 · $89k
- LOLyric Opera of Kansas Cityone grant, 2017 · $61k
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.
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.
How this is measured
231 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. 231 of the 643 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 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 THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hallmark Corporate Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hallmark Corporate Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- EcoHealth Alliance Inc: 24% of income from government
- Epic Community Services Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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