· Private foundation
Helen S Boylan Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $134k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINDALE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS | $25,483 |
| JOPLIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| CARTGHAGE R-9 FOUNDATION | $22,800 |
| KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA | $15,000 |
| CARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $12,682 |
| GUADALUPE CENTERS | $10,000 |
| CITY OF CARTHAGE | $6,300 |
| MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| BOOTS COURT FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| ST LUKE'S NUSRING CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ASCENT RECOVERY | $5,000 |
| YOUTH SYMPHONY OF KANSAS CITY | $5,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN OF EAST TEXAS | $5,000 |
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, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 11 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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
- GCGUADALUPE CENTERS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +72%
- CRCARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +66%
- UIUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC5× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- GFGLENDALE FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $17k
- JRJOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2021 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $11k
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions
Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…
Csf identifies the needs and fuels the evolution of an ever-changing multi-disciplinary arts ecosystem, acting as its primary provocateur. we cultivate the contemporary, the exceptional, and the unexpected in the practice of artists…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation 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.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
Villa st francis, a catholic, non-profit skilled nursing facility sponsored by the archdiocese of kansas city in olathe, provides dementia care, skilled nursing, respite, and hospice.
Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Guadalupe Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lillie Russell Memorial Library. 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 28 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 121 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 GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds LILLIE RUSSELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds VISION CARTHAGE ↗
- Who funds Carthage Historic Preservation ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
- Who funds Boots Court Foundation ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds TAPKARD INC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PRO MUSICA ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
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 Helen S Boylan 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.