· Public charity
Harvest Ball Society
Net proceeds are distributed to 501c(3) organizations for northland community needs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $654,875 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $668,875 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $114k
- $250k+1 grant · $512k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $512,230 |
| HILLCREST PLATTE COUNTY | $25,000 |
| A TURNING POINT MINISTRY INC | $17,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY | $16,000 |
| HILLCREST MIINISTRIES OF MID-AMERIC | $15,000 |
| HILLCREST HOPE MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| FEED NORTHLAND KIDS | $10,000 |
| LOVE INC OF CLAY COUNTY | $10,000 |
| NORTHLAND SHEPHERDS CENTER | $10,000 |
| LEVELUP KINDS | $7,500 |
| CLAY COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES | $6,000 |
| TRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $5,215 |
| NORTHLAND HEALTHCARE ACCESS | $5,215 |
| SYNERGY SERVICES | $5,215 |
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 (FY17–21, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $551k 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
- SSSYNERGY SERVICES INC3× · 2017–2021 · $85k · revenue +173%
- TMTRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC2× · 2017–2021 · $45k · revenue +53%
- HPHILLCREST PLATTE COUNTY2× · 2017–2021 · $35k · revenue +425%
Funded once
- CMCHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $25k
- CCConcerned Care Incone grant, 2017 · $20k
- NCNorthland Christmas Store Incorporatedgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +27%
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.
To provide a shelter and a place of hope where people can recover from homelessness, pain and addiction, restoring their dignity and improving their lives.
To gather the communities of clay & platte counties in missouri in order to provide low-cost temporary shelter, meals, and assistance to qualifying homeless families.
Provide services, food commodities, utility payment funds, cancer treatment funds to low-income residents of the carroll county, missouri area.
To provide people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet the needs of today, and provide the tools for future self-sufficiency.
The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.
Serve fresh and frozen meals to seniors, disabled and homebound individuals in central MN. Over 60,000 meals served annually to over 400 individuals.
Provide affordable housing to low-income families
Hope Faith Ministries Inc. works to alleviate homelessness and poverty in the Kansas City area by providing basic necessities and assistance while also providing critical programs to help empower individ
Provide programs that provide service to elderly and handicapped individuals
To provide food and household items to those in need in johnson county, missouri
Northland community health center is committed to providing access to affordable and quality health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hillcrest Platte County and the most unlike its peers is Girls On the Run Serving Greater Kansas City Missouri. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 55% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 33 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 SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FEED NORTHLAND KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST PLATTE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE INC OF CLAY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Concerned Care Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds A Turning Point Ministry Inc ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHLAND ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Northland Health Care Access ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA ↗
- Who funds Northland Christmas Store Incorporated ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE OPENING POSSIBILITIES FOR EVERYONE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN PLATTE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FARMER'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LIFE UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Clay County Clothes Closet ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Victor E Speas Foundation · The Daniel G and Wanda K O'Dell Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Harry Arnote Charitable Foundation · Liberty Hospital Foundation
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 Harvest Ball Society 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.
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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