How much does Henry E Wurst Family Foundation give?

Henry E Wurst Family Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Henry E Wurst Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (24%), Youth Development (17%), Arts & Culture (11%).

Who are Henry E Wurst Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Boys Club of Greater Kansas City ($101k), Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City ($92k), Camps for Kids ($80k).

Does Henry E Wurst Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Henry E Wurst Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Henry E Wurst Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Oppenstein Brothers Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Where is Henry E Wurst Family Foundation based?

Henry E Wurst Family Foundation is based in MO.

Henry E Wurst Family Foundation

Henry E Wurst Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Henry E Wurst Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$18k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$356kYouth Development$252kArts & Culture$154kRecreation & Sports$145kHealth$113kFood & Nutrition$81kEducation$64kEnvironment$49kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $79k
$10k–50k8 grants · $121k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
SYNERGY SERVICES INC	$15,000
CAMPS FOR KIDS	$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
FEED NORTHLAND KIDS	$6,000
YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC	$6,000
YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY	$5,000
GRACE UNITED COMMUNITY MINISTRIES	$5,000
JACKSON COUNTY CASA	$5,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.4M · 75 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%

+98%

Still filing today

72%

63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsHealthOther

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

BC
BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
6× · 2019–2024 · $101k · revenue +25%
BB
Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City
7× · 2018–2024 · $92k · revenue +109%
CF
CAMPS FOR KIDS
7× · 2018–2024 · $80k · revenue +86%

Funded once

SO
SPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +36%
SF
Southwest Family YMCA
one grant, 2018 · $5k
PA
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KCKS
one grant, 2022 · $4k

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.

Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

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Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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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

Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services

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.

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Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education

Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment

Kansas City Country Club

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…

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Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health

Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture

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

University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 96 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/68

Grantees still filing

49/68

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$753,036Human Services$205,500Arts & Culture$169,300Youth Development$110,500Recreation & Sports$88,700Food & Nutrition$69,200Health$62,500

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

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.

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 Community FoundationMO75.5× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Henry E Wurst Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry E Wurst Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

22report 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.

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