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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.

$242k
Granted FY2023
178
Grants FY2023
20
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$2.0MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$394kYouth Development$83kHealth$46kHuman Services$46kReligion$35kAnimals$28kOther$0
02FY2023 · 178 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k177 grants · $107k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
$500
Median grant
20
States reached
$46k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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 (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.

area typical 11%YWCA OF MISSOULA: $500 → 9%GREEN BERET FOUNDATION: $51 → 16%LITTLE DRESSES FOR AFRICA: $400 → 21%NEW HORIZON RANCH: $400 → 10%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $250 → 11%SPECIAL NEEDS SERVICES OF RAY COUNTY: $400 → 13%TRI COUNTY URBAN LEAGUE: $200 → 14%LIFE CARE PONTE VEDRA INC: $400 → 6%CAMP VALOR OUTDOORS: $500 → 14%CAMP VALOR OUTDOORS: $500 → 14%JOY MEADOWS: $500 → 10%HOUSE OF HOPE MIDWEST: $250 → 8%SOUTHERN PLATTE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $250 → 8%SOUTHERN PLATTE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $250 → 8%SOUTHERN PLATTE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $200 → 8%SOUTHERN PLATTE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER: $200 → 8%UNBOUND: $565 → 16%LEAD TO READ: $4k → 8%LEAD TO READ: $750 → 8%LEAD TO READ: $600 → 8%LEAD TO READ: $500 → 8%THE HOPE CENTER: $500 → 15%THE HOPE CENTER: $500 → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $400 → 15%SHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION: $500 → 5%SHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION: $500 → 5%SHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION: $400 → 5%SHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION: $400 → 5%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS INC: $500 → 15%UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC: $400 → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $250 → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $250 → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS INC: $250 → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $200 → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES: $500 → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $800 → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $600 → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $250 → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $200 → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $200 → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC: $200 → 15%GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $800 → 15%GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $500 → 15%GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $400 → 15%GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $250 → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $200 → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $400 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
SD
IA
IN
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
LA
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 219 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

219
372

Total granted

$3.2M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+24%

Still filing today

51%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsHealthYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UW
    United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +1%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
    3× · 2020–2022 · $337k · revenue +21%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $189k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • UW
    United Way of Greater Kansas City
    one grant, 2017 · $729k
  • KC
    Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $89k
  • LO
    Lyric Opera of Kansas City
    one 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.

04Its 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
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
2
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

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…

Philanthropy
3
Kansas City Art Institute

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.

Education
4
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
5
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
6
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education
7
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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8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education
10
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
11
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
12
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
223/231
Grantees still filing
149/231
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $1,783,854 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansas City IncUnited Way of Greater Kansas City: $729,044 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansas City+145 more: $612,309 · Other+145 moreKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $337,034 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $189,257 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THE…KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $183,929 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCI…LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $125,021 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CIT…THE COTERIE INC: $60,900 · Arts & CultureTHE COTERIE INC+10 more: $61,400 · Arts & Culture+10 moreThe New School: $20,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EducationWilliam Jewell College: $11,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,960 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $8,100 · EducationGRACELAND UNIVERSITY: $8,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · EducationBRIGHT FUTURES FUND: $6,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $5,460 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $5,450 · Education+8 more: $18,650 · EducationEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $16,000 · AnimalsKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $3,100 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF PARKVILLE ANIMAL SHELTER: $2,500 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $2,250 · AnimalsLL DOG RESCUE: $2,200 · AnimalsAlways & Furever Midwest Animal Sanctuary: $1,550 · AnimalsCHAIN OF HOPE KC: $1,550 · AnimalsGood Karma Pet Rescue Inc: $1,300 · AnimalsGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC: $1,100 · Youth DevelopmentRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $5,750 · HealthAmethyst Place Inc: $2,650 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,800 · HealthGIFT OF LIFE INC: $1,600 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY: $1,400 · HealthLEAD TO READ INC: $6,050 · Human ServicesGIRLS ON THE RUN SERVING GREATER KANSAS CITY MISSOURI: $1,950 · Human ServicesSHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC: $1,050 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$3,125,207Arts & Culture$957,541Education$117,620Animals$30,450Youth Development$18,600Health$13,200Human Services$11,850

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $1,783,854 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $337,034 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $189,257 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $183,929 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $125,021 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COTERIE INC: $60,900 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetUNICORN THEATRE: $26,200 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetThe New School: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES INC: $18,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEcoHealth Alliance Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,960 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $8,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $8,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRACELAND UNIVERSITY: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER: $7,150 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC: $6,050 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FUND: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $5,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $5,550 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $5,460 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $5,450 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE INTERDENOMINATIONAL NUTRITION K: $4,250 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSHAWNEE MISSION EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,850 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF ASIAN AMERICAN PROFESSIONALS INC: $3,200 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE INC OF CLAY COUNTY: $3,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $2,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $2,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF PARKVILLE ANIMAL SHELTER: $2,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBUDDHIST TZU CHI FOUNDATION: $2,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLL DOG RESCUE: $2,200 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC: $2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS SERVICE FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $2,050 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCURTIS SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY KC: $1,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN SERVING GREATER KANSAS CITY MISSOURI: $1,950 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $1,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $1,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF DAYTONA BEACH INC: $1,800 over 4y, 0.2% 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.

  • 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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO97.2× affinity105 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • EcoHealth Alliance Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Epic Community Services Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Hallmark Corporate Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hallmark Corporate Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 643 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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