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Hartley Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$642k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$310k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.0MReligion$318kHealth$300kInternational$153kArts & Culture$131kHuman Services$127kFood & Nutrition$70kHousing & Shelter$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k25 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $245k
  • $250k+1 grant · $310k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 15%SAFE HOME: $5k → 5%SAFE HOUSE: $5k → 5%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 15%ERIC'S CAMP FUND: $2k → 5%ERICS CAMP FUND: $1k → 5%ERIC'S CAMP FUND: $1k → 5%ERICS CAMP FUND: $1k → 5%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $10k → 15%ERIC'S CAMP FUND: $1k → 5%KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE: $10k → 5%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $10k → 15%KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE: $10k → 5%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%GOODLIFE INNOVATIONS: $1k → 5%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 52 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
35

Total granted

$2.2M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+72%

Still filing today

65%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HT
    HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +40%
  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    4× · 2020–2023 · $73k · revenue +64%
  • HT
    HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SL
    ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUDNATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • GE
    GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • CW
    CENTRAL WORLD KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
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
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
2
Kansas City Care Clinic

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.

—
3
Kvc Hospitals Inc

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.

Health
4
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians

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…

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5
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
6
Healthcore Clinic Inc

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.

Health
7
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
8
Kvc Behavioral Healthcare Nebraska Inc

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.

Health
9
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

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.

Health
10
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc

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.

Health
11
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

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12
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 99 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
51/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KU ENDOWMENT: $915,000 · OtherKU ENDOWMENTVILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $153,500 · OtherVILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHST ANDREWS CHURCH KANSAS CITY: $145,250 · OtherST ANDREWS CHURCH KANSAS CITYST LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUDNATION: $100,000 · OtherOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH: $70,000 · Other+62 more: $505,450 · Other+62 moreThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $72,500 · EducationMISSION VISION PROJECT: $40,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $35,000 · Education+2 more: $2,000 · EducationHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 · InternationalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,500 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesKansas City Hospice Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMS: $15,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund: $6,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $45,200 · HealthBENILDE HALL: $15,000 · HealthAngel Flight Central Inc: $10,000 · HealthKVC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $3,000 · HealthKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $9,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $7,000 · Arts & CultureJEWEL BALL: $6,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $3,500 · Arts & CultureHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $54,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,889,200Education$149,500International$125,000Human Services$114,500Health$93,200Arts & Culture$75,500Food & Nutrition$54,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $72,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $54,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $45,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $40,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION VISION PROJECT: $40,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY KC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF JOHNSON & WYANDOTTE COUNTIES INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCity Union Mission: $25,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $20,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENILDE HALL: $15,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Flight Central Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPHARMACY OF GRACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKITE FOUNDATION AT 1433: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKVC FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWEL BALL: $6,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetERICS CAMP FUNDErics Camp Fund: $6,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetPRAIRIE VILLAGE MUNICIPAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIONEXUS KC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIGHTFULLY SEWN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health Care Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 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 WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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 Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds BENILDE HALL ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
  • Who funds Angel Flight Central Inc ↗
  • Who funds PHARMACY OF GRACE INC ↗
  • Who funds KITE FOUNDATION AT 1433 ↗
  • Who funds KVC FOUNDATION 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 C…United Way of Greater…The H & R Block Found…Health Forward Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Francis Family Fo…The Sunderland Founda…Constance M Cooper Ch…Marion and Henry Bloc…John J Sullivan Jr Fo…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Jewish Community Foun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO56.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Hartley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hartley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
21report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Hartley Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Hartley Family 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 99 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home