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Hartley Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $245k
- $250k+1 grant · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KU ENDOWMENT | $310,000 |
| ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $40,000 |
| VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT | $15,000 |
| HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL | $15,000 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $10,000 |
| MISSION VISION PROJECT | $10,000 |
| ABILITY KC | $10,000 |
| JUST LIKE YOU FILMS | $10,000 |
| PHARMACY OF GRACE | $10,000 |
| KITE FOUNDATION AT 1433 | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 12 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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
- HTHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +40%
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association4× · 2020–2023 · $73k · revenue +64%
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SLST LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUDNATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
- GEGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +17%
- CWCENTRAL WORLD KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
It is the mission of kvc hospitals to enrich children's lives by providing comprehensive and compassionate trauma-informed psychiatric care, behavioral healthcare, education and medical services.
The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
It is the mission of kvc to enrich and enhance the lives of children and their families by providing medical and behavioral healthcare, social services and education.
To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of kansas city is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Erics Camp FUNDErics Camp Fund. 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 38 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 99 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
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 HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds MISSION VISION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF JOHNSON & WYANDOTTE COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
- Who funds BENILDE HALL ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds Angel Flight Central Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds PHARMACY OF GRACE INC ↗
- Who funds KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
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 Hartley Family 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.
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% 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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