· Private foundation
Henry E Wurst Family 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALVATION ARMY - KS & WESTERN MO | $18,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $18,000 |
| WILDWOOD OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER | $17,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $17,000 |
| CAMPS FOR KIDS | $15,000 |
| SYNERGY SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS | $11,000 |
| KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES | $10,000 |
| GREATER KC SPORTS FOUNDATION (WIN FOR KC) | $7,500 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $7,000 |
| YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC | $6,000 |
| FEED NORTHLAND KIDS | $6,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS KC METRO | $5,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY CASA | $5,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $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 (FY18–24, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 73% 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.
75 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 5 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- BCBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY6× · 2019–2024 · $101k · revenue +25%
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City7× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +109%
- CFCAMPS FOR KIDS7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +36%
- SFSouthwest Family YMCAone grant, 2018 · $5k
- PAPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KCKSone grant, 2022 · $4k
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.
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.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Medical Missions Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 96 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 BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City ↗
- Who funds CAMPS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Wildwood Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds CAMP WOOD YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC ↗
- Who funds FEED NORTHLAND KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Grace United Community Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE COTERIE INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE HEARTLAND ↗
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 · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The H & R Block Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund
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 Henry E Wurst Family 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.
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