· Public charity
Health Forward Foundation
HEALTH FORWARD FOUNDATION's mission is to achieve health equity and secure a fair and just region through leadership, advocacy, and resources.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 169 grants below total $26,403,576 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $27,846,208 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,442,632 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k30 grants · $615k
- $50k–250k100 grants · $9.9M
- $250k+39 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY CARE HEALTH CENTER (KC CARE) | $800,000 |
| SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES | $800,000 |
| TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER (DBA UNIVERSITY HEALTH) CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC DBA VIBRANT HEALTH | $750,000 |
| CREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES INC | $650,000 |
| EL CENTRO INC | $600,000 |
| SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER | $600,000 |
| KANSAS CITY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION | $550,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY | $550,000 |
| HEALTH PARTNERSHIP OF JOHNSON COUNTY | $510,000 |
| THRIVE ALLEN COUNTY | $500,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY | $450,000 |
| MATTIE RHODES CENTER | $450,000 |
| NURTURE KC | $400,000 |
| TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS | $400,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $24.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
274 repeat relationships — 111 still active in FY2024, 163 since wound down; 26 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; $2.3M 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
- KCKansas City CARE Clinic8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +312%
- MRMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +193% · 46% of their budget
- THTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +703%
Funded once
- GJGREAT JOBS KC INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +57%
- MJMISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTIONone grant, 2023 · $435k · revenue -27% · 46% of their budget
- PFPROSPECTS FOR MISSOURIone grant, 2018 · $400k · 100% of their budget
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.
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Providing innovative research, message guidance, communication training, communication expertise,and collaborative strategies to aligned organizations to grow their capacity and improve collaborationand coordination among partner groups in…
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
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.
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Action for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empire Dreams. 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 25 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
368 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. 368 of the 434 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HCC Network ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds KC Healthy Kids ↗
- Who funds Family Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURIANS FOR HEALTHCARE ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME ↗
- Who funds NURTURE KC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS 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: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Reach Healthcare Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Shumaker Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Francis Family 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 Health Forward 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.
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.