· Public charity
Heavy Constructors Association of the Grtr Kc Area Industry Advancement Fund
To promote, improve and advance the interest and common good of all engaged in the construction industry through such activities as employee and supervisory training, management training and educational programs, (continued on schedule o)construction technical education, safety education and accident prevention training, public…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of HEAVY CONSTRUCTORS ASSOCIATION OF THE GRTR KC AREA INDUSTRY ADVANCEMENT FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $747,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $793,997 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $46,997 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
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| LINCOLN PAC | $150,000 |
| DEMOCRACY IN ACTION | $100,000 |
| LIBERTY AND JUSTICE PAC | $50,000 |
| KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI ALLIANCE PAC | $25,000 |
| WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND | $10,000 |
| 57 FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MCC WORKS FOR PLATTE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| COMMITTEE FOR INDEPENDENCE MO | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORS UNITED | $10,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $400k
- OPOVERLAND PARK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE2× · 2022–2023 · $120k · revenue -48%
- KVKANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE2× · 2022–2024 · $105k · revenue -89%
Funded once
- LMLabor Management Fair Contracting Foundationone grant, 2017 · $132k · revenue -1% · 53% of their budget
- NUNORTHLAND UNITED INCone grant, 2023 · $55k
- ELECONOMIC LIFELINES INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +4%
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 promote area commerce
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.
Improve wages, benefits and working conditions for members
To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.
To sponsor events that enhance members' knowledge of current economic and financial and social issues.
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.
The northland regional chamber of commerce promotes growth and development in the kansas city, missouri northland area by monitoring important issues,educating members, assisting support activities, and providing a unified voice for…
Promote the Pittsburg, Kansas business community.
Promote economic development in the state of kansas
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.
The mission of the downtown council is to to create and maintain an urban environment that provides (1) economic reasons for businesses to be downtown, (2) a quality of life that encourages people to live downtown, and (3) enterainment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Historic Kansas City Foundation. 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 27 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 48 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 Labor Management Fair Contracting Foundation ↗
- Who funds OVERLAND PARK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC LIFELINES INC ↗
- Who funds GET FAMILIES BACK TO WORK ↗
- Who funds MISSOURIANS FOR TRANSPORATION INVESTMENT ↗
- Who funds UNIFIED CONTRACTORS OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds RIGHT WAY KANSAS ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING MISSOURI FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ROAD INFORMATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND ↗
- Who funds Urban Summit Incorporated ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REGIONAL DESTINATION DEVELOP MENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 57 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ DISTRICT RENAISSANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLATTE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Heavy Constructors Association of the Grtr Kc Area Industry Advancement Fund 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.