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Heartland Conservation Alliance
The HEARTLAND CONSERVATION ALLIANCE works with partners to protect, connect, and restore the blue river watershed and its urban greenspaces for the benefit and enjoyment of all.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 2 grants below total $66,905 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $136,905 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $47,505 |
| NATIVE LAND RESTORATION COLLABORATIVE | $19,400 |
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 (FY18–23, $243k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +124% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- COCORNERSTONES OF CARE3× · 2021–2023 · $215k · revenue +2%
- MRMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION3× · 2018–2020 · $65k · revenue +174%
- MCMARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $27k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- FEFOXTOWN EAST NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $17k
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +69%- MRMY REGION WINSone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
Kansas city community gardens is dedicated to improving the quality of life of low-income households and other members of the community by helping them grow their own nutritious fruits and vegatables. the member gardners develop…
The heartland conservation alliance works with partners to protect, connect, and restore the blue river watershed and its urban greenspaces for the benefit and enjoyment of all.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
Work to suport commercial, mixed use, and residential progress and effective community, economic, and aesthetic development to create and encourage the renewal and vitality of Midtown Kansas City, Missouri.
Community builders of kansas city changes the landscape by igniting and fueling equity, access, opportunity and advocacy.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstones of Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LEGACY ↗
- Who funds BLUE VALLEY NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS GROW CORP ↗
- Who funds Heart of the City Neighborhood Association 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: The Shumaker Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Community Capital Fund · Health Forward Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Heartland Conservation Alliance 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.