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Helen S Boylan Foundation at a glance

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Helen S Boylan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$221k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$710kArts & Culture$450kHuman Services$190kHealth$107kCrime & Legal$73kCommunity Improvement$71kAnimals$55kFood & Nutrition$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LINDALE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS$39,505
CARTGHAGE R-9 FOUNDATION$16,023
GUADALUPE CENTERS$14,000
MCCUNE BROOKS FOUNDATION$11,000
LILLIE RUSSELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY$10,000
KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA$10,000
ART CENTRAL$9,500
CEDAR HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$9,000
HOPE HAVEN OF EAST TEXAS$7,000
CARTHAGE HUMANE SOCIETY$7,000
CITY OF CARTHAGE$7,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
PROMUSICA$6,000
VISION CARTHAGE$6,000
JOPLIN HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE MISSION PROJECT: $3k → 5%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $3k → 16%PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES: $5k → 8%THE MISSION PROJECT: $3k → 5%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $2k → 16%PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 8%PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES: $3k → 8%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $6k → 5%TINY EVIE ROCKS: $3k → 12%EPEC INC: $4k → 15%EPEC: $4k → 15%PAWSPERITY: $2k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $4k → 15%FAIR ACRES FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 18%GUADALUPE CENTER: $23k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $14k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $13k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $13k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $10k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $10k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $10k → 15%BRIGHT FUTURES: $4k → 18%BRIGHT FUTURES: $2k → 18%BRIGHT FUTURES: $2k → 18%EARLY START: $10k → 15%EARLY START: $10k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $10k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICE: $10k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $10k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $5k → 15%TINY EVIE ROCKS: $3k → 12%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.
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 69 repeat orgs$270k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

69 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 48 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
52

Total granted

$1.9M
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+19%

Still filing today

46%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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

  • GC
    GUADALUPE CENTERS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +72%
  • CR
    CARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $61k · revenue +66%
  • UI
    UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • GF
    GLENDALE FIRE DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $17k
  • JR
    JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $11k
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
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
2
Nurture Kc

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…

Health
3
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
4
Kitty City Kansas Rescue Incorporated

Find homes for homeless cats through adoptions

Animals
5
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health
6
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.

—
7
Charlotte Street Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Missouri Center for Patient Safety

Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.

Health
9
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
10
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
11
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Community Gardens Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 131 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
35/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINDALE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS: $350,878 · OtherLINDALE INDEPENDENT SCHOOLSKANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $130,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRAIndividual grant recipient: $84,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $83,496 · OtherCARTHAGE PUBLIC LIBRARYCARTGHAGE R-X FOUNDATION: $59,400 · Other+93 more: $855,423 · Other+93 moreGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $91,500 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE C…UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesUNITED INNE…HAPPYBOTTOMS: $30,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOM…PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesBRIGHT FUTURES CONNECTIONS FOR SUCCESS: $8,019 · Human Services+4 more: $20,500 · Human Services+4 moreCARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $61,337 · EducationLILLIE RUSSELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $53,500 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATION: $18,000 · EducationMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION: $17,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationJASPER COUNTY CASA: $50,004 · Crime & LegalTAPKARD INC: $27,000 · Crime & LegalFor the Silent: $10,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $5,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $2,500 · Crime & LegalVISION CARTHAGE: $42,649 · Community ImprovementFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $14,500 · Community ImprovementCARTHAGE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $38,430 · AnimalsCHAIN OF HOPE KC: $5,000 · AnimalsKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $2,500 · AnimalsSPAY & NEUTER KANSAS CITY D/B/A PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY: $2,500 · AnimalsSaint Lukes Foundation: $21,000 · HealthPETS FOR LIFE INC: $7,250 · HealthTherapeutic Harp Foundation: $5,763 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS INC: $5,000 · HealthPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $3,995 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $2,000 · HealthANGEL LAYETTES: $2,000 · Health
Other$1,563,197Human Services$225,519Education$152,337Crime & Legal$94,504Community Improvement$57,149Animals$48,430Health$47,008

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $91,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $61,337 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLILLIE RUSSELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $53,500 over 5y, 10% of budgetJASPER COUNTY CASA: $50,004 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetVISION CARTHAGE: $42,649 over 7y, 13% of budgetCARTHAGE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $38,430 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetCarthage Historic Preservation: $34,975 over 5y, 11% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $30,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBoots Court Foundation: $29,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetTAPKARD INC: $27,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $21,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRO MUSICA: $19,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM: $16,800 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GIVING GROVE: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPAWSPERITY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFor the Silent: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES CONNECTIONS FOR SUCCESS: $8,019 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetRIGHTFULLY SEWN INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPETS FOR LIFE INC: $7,250 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS: $6,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTherapeutic Harp Foundation: $5,763 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE MISSION PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFAIR ACRES FAMILY YMCA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHAIN OF HOPE KC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKC Healthy Kids: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREGIONAL EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS AS TEACHERS NATIONAL CENTER INC: $3,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $3,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPAY & NEUTER KANSAS CITY D/B/A PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGEL LAYETTES: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LILLIE RUSSELL MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
  • Who funds VISION CARTHAGE ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Carthage Historic Preservation ↗
  • Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
  • Who funds Boots Court Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TAPKARD INC ↗
  • Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PRO MUSICA ↗
  • Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM ↗
  • Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM 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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Menorah Heritage Foun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The H & R Block Found…Oppenstein Brothers F…Health Forward Founda…Marion and Henry Bloc…The Kansas City Royal…The Francis Family Fo…William T Kemper Foun…Jewish Community Foun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO41× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%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
    19report 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 131 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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