Texas · Private foundation
Harry Wilson Loose Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $300k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 5
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Harry Wilson Loose Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 3 | $300k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $275k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $285k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $315k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $268k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $260k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $261k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $250k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood Center for the Exceptional Child | $250,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Heart of America Council Boy Scouts of America | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Union Station Kansas City Inc | $172,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas City Art Institute | $152,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/A Mattie Rhodes Center | $140,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Nelson Gallery Foundation | $105,000 | 1 | 0% |
| William Jewell College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Umkc Foundation | $92,750 | 2 | 1% |
| Nonprofit Connect Network Learn Grow | $80,000 | 1 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sherwood Center for the Exceptional Child | $250,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Heart of America Council Boy Scouts of America | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Union Station Kansas City Inc | $172,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas City Art Institute | $152,750 | 2 | 0% |
| Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/A Mattie Rhodes Center | $140,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Nelson Gallery Foundation | $105,000 | 1 | 0% |
| William Jewell College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Umkc Foundation | $92,750 | 2 | 1% |
| Nonprofit Connect Network Learn Grow | $80,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Assistance League of Kansas City | $70,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc | $58,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Public Television 19 Inc | $52,750 | 1 | 0% |
| Trust Neighborhoods | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Bike Walk Kc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($695k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harry Wilson Loose Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Truman Heartland Community Foundation · Nichols Company Charitable Trust · School Smart Kc Inc · The Sosland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Harry Wilson Loose Trust
- How much does Harry Wilson Loose Trust give?
- Harry Wilson Loose Trust reported 3 grants totaling $300,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Harry Wilson Loose Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (38%), Education (15%), Community Improvement (11%).
- Who are Harry Wilson Loose Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sherwood Center for the Exceptional Child ($250k), Heart of America Council Boy Scouts of America ($200k), Union Station Kansas City Inc ($173k).
- Does Harry Wilson Loose Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harry Wilson Loose Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry Wilson Loose Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Oppenstein Brothers Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
- Where is Harry Wilson Loose Trust based?
- Harry Wilson Loose Trust is based in TX.
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