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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.

$28M
Granted FY2024still arriving
169
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$88MHuman Services$24MHousing & Shelter$12MCommunity Improvement$12MFood & Nutrition$10MPublic Benefit$7.7MEducation$7.2MCrime & Legal$6.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 169 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 169 grants below total $26,403,576, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,846,208 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,442,632 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k30 grants · $615k
  • $50k–250k100 grants · $9.9M
  • $250k+39 grants · $16M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$945M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES$800,000
KANSAS CITY CARE HEALTH CENTER (KC CARE)$800,000
TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC DBA VIBRANT HEALTH$750,000
TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER (DBA UNIVERSITY HEALTH) CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$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
TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS$400,000
NURTURE KC$400,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN: $250k → 14%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $300k → 8%MISSOURI BUDGET PROJECT: $180k → 21%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $200k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $173k → 8%HUMANITY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $150k → 16%SAFEHOME Inc: $225k → 5%SAFEHOME: $225k → 5%ORAL HEALTH KANSAS INC: $150k → 14%SAFEHOME: $200k → 5%SAFEHOME: $175k → 5%SAFEHOME Inc: $150k → 5%KC Healthy Kids: $500k → 16%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $300k → 16%KC Healthy Kids: $250k → 16%OUR SPOT KC: $200k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $180k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $178k → 16%UNITED COMMUNITY SERVICES OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC: $350k → 5%UNITED COMMUNITY SERVICES OF JOHNSON COUNTY INC: $150k → 5%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $151k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $150k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $150k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $150k → 16%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $350k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $288k → 15%Cornerstones of Care: $267k → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $175k → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $165k → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $165k → 15%Ad Hoc Group Against Crime: $208k → 15%SISTERS IN CHRIST: $200k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $250k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $225k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $200k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $175k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $175k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $175k → 15%CREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES INC: $650k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $250k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $175k → 15%Reconciliation Services: $174k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $165k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $165k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $161k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $160k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $160k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $200k → 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

IL
WI
NY
IA
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
KS
DC
LA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$172M · 274 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

274
130

Total granted

$172M
$9.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+4%

Still filing today

88%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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

  • KC
    Kansas City CARE Clinic
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.6M · revenue +312%
  • MR
    MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +193% · 46% of their budget
  • TH
    TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +703%

Funded once

  • GJ
    GREAT JOBS KC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +57%
  • MJ
    MISSOURI JOBS WITH JUSTICE VOTER ACTION
    one grant, 2023 · $435k · revenue -27% · 46% of their budget
  • PF
    PROSPECTS FOR MISSOURI
    one grant, 2018 · $400k · 100% of their budget
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
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
2
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health
3
Kansas City Community Land Trust

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
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
5
Kansas Coalition for Common Sense Inc

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…

Civil Rights
6
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
7
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
8
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

—
9
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
10
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
11
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement
12
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Action for Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

368 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. 368 of the 434 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.

76
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
121
Early backer (in before they grew)
351/368
Grantees still filing
258/368
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $4,255,181 · HealthTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INCSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $3,579,834 · HealthSWOPE HEALTH SERVICESCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $3,274,486 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOT…TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,207,528 · HealthTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FO…THRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC: $3,122,293 · HealthTHRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INCKANSAS CITY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $2,710,000 · HealthMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $2,675,890 · HealthHEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC INC: $2,480,400 · HealthSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,270,150 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $1,820,000 · Health+36 more: $22,858,105 · Health+36 moreKansas City CARE Clinic: $5,597,000 · OtherKansas City CARE ClinicROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $2,390,141 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $1,927,279 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY: $1,868,500 · OtherSeton Center Inc: $1,866,640 · Other+77 more: $42,245,004 · Other+77 moreRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $2,075,455 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION S…SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $1,946,113 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVICES…KC Healthy Kids: $1,806,152 · Human ServicesKC Healthy KidsHOPE HOUSE INC: $1,672,233 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INCSAFEHOME INC: $1,670,783 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INCAD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $1,363,936 · Human ServicesAD HOC GROUP AGA…GUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $1,223,514 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $1,158,076 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $1,032,383 · Human ServicesMigrant Farmworkers Assistance Fund: $973,972 · Human ServicesORAL HEALTH KANSAS INC: $867,394 · Human Services+20 more: $8,839,218 · Human Services+20 moreMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $5,349,868 · Community ImprovementMID-AMERIC…EL CENTRO INC: $3,778,099 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO …HCC Network: $1,915,190 · Community ImprovementHCC Networ…URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $1,051,838 · Community ImprovementURBAN NEIG…LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $875,000 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INIT…IVANHOE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL: $697,200 · Community Improvement+4 more: $1,395,800 · Community Improvement+4 moreRESTART INC: $2,029,304 · Housing & ShelterMT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $1,175,179 · Housing & ShelterSHEFFIELD PLACE: $1,071,425 · Housing & ShelterCHWC INC: $806,596 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY BUILDERS OF KANSAS CITY: $655,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $545,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF HOPE INC: $375,856 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $403,650 · Housing & ShelterLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $1,503,526 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $1,300,464 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $1,088,702 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $844,372 · Crime & LegalSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC: $564,407 · Crime & LegalTHE VILLAGE INITIATIVE: $510,000 · Crime & LegalNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY: $364,900 · Crime & LegalCALVARY COMMUNITY OUTREACH NETWORK: $358,000 · Crime & LegalThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $781,602 · EducationGENESIS SCHOOL INC: $756,956 · EducationBE GREAT TOGETHER: $550,000 · EducationGREAT JOBS KC INC: $500,000 · EducationDonnelly College: $472,712 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $446,271 · EducationMISSION VISION PROJECT: $375,000 · EducationARTSTECH: $355,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $291,000 · EducationEMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER & EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR CHILDR: $229,016 · EducationGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $220,800 · EducationThe Transition Academy: $219,770 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $210,221 · EducationKansas City University: $200,000 · Education
Health$52,253,867Other$55,894,564Human Services$24,629,229Community Improvement$15,062,995Housing & Shelter$7,062,010Crime & Legal$6,534,371Education$5,608,348

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $5,597,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $5,349,868 over 8y, 46% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $4,255,181 over 8y, 18% of budgetEL CENTRO INC: $3,778,099 over 8y, 20% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $3,579,834 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $3,274,486 over 8y, 45% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3,207,528 over 8y, 23% of budgetTHRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC: $3,122,293 over 8y, 33% of budgetKANSAS CITY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $2,710,000 over 7y, 86% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $2,675,890 over 8y, 28% of budgetHEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC INC: $2,480,400 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $2,390,141 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $2,270,150 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $2,075,455 over 8y, 13% of budgetRESTART INC: $2,029,304 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $1,946,113 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetHCC Network: $1,915,190 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY: $1,868,500 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetSeton Center Inc: $1,866,640 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $1,820,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetKC Healthy Kids: $1,806,152 over 6y, 46% of budgetFamily Health Care Inc: $1,740,760 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $1,672,233 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $1,670,783 over 8y, 10.0% of budgetMISSOURIANS FOR HEALTHCARE: $1,625,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetCASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,563,625 over 7y, 18% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $1,503,526 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $1,450,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetAD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $1,363,936 over 8y, 40% of budgetNURTURE KC: $1,325,000 over 7y, 26% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $1,300,464 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $1,279,878 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $1,258,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $1,223,514 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $1,182,418 over 7y, 12% of budgetMT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC: $1,175,179 over 5y, 35% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $1,158,076 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $1,156,922 over 6y, 19% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $1,148,036 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $1,088,702 over 6y, 25% of budgetBLAQOUT: $1,087,460 over 5y, 63% of budgetMETROCARE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1,076,100 over 2y, 90% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE: $1,071,425 over 8y, 10% of budgetURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $1,051,838 over 7y, 35% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $1,034,952 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $1,032,383 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCARITAS CLINICS INC: $1,027,761 over 6y, 11% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST: $998,091 over 6y, 8.5% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Menorah Heritage Foun…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Reach Healthcare …The H & R Block Found…Greater Kansas City C…Jackson County Commun…The Shumaker Family F…The Sunderland Founda…William T Kemper Foun…The Francis Family Fo…
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO244.4× affinity166 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    75report 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.

    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 434 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 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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