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Hunter Legacy Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIX'EM KC | $30,000 |
| AFA | $8,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PBS | $5,000 |
| FIX'EM KC | $5,000 |
| CHAIN OF HOPE KC | $5,000 |
| LANTZ TUCKER MEMORIAL FUND | $3,000 |
| KITE FOUNDATION AT 1433 | $3,000 |
| THE RESCUE PROJECT | $3,000 |
| EXCELSIOR SPRINGS FRIENDS OF ANIMAL | $3,000 |
| ARMANIS ANGELS KC | $3,000 |
| MARQ | $2,000 |
| MID-AMERICA BULLY BREED RESCUE (MAB | $2,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS SPCA | $2,000 |
| ON A MISSION KC | $2,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYS | $2,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 52 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- FKFix'em KC5× · 2019–2024 · $115k · revenue +51% · 35% of their budget
- PHPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL3× · 2020–2022 · $19k · revenue +23%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC5× · 2019–2023 · $18k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- AFALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +17%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $7k
- KOKS OIL MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
The kansas humane society is a community resource for pets and people, dedicated to enhancing the welfare of all companion animals.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
To serve our community by promoting animal welfare and strengthening the animal-human bond. to improve the lives of pets through education and protection. to shelter stray, abandoned, and surrendered pets and find them loving homes.
To bring about a time when there are no more homeless pets. we do this by demonstrating and promoting exemplary animal care and building community programs and partnerships.
The kansas city campus for animal care (kccac) is a public-private partnership between the city of kansas city, missouri, and kansas city pet project. (continued on schedule o)the campus is operated by kc pet project, focusing on pet…
To find for as many greyhounds as possible - without consideration for their age, health, diabilities or circumstances - their forever homes, while maintaining a high quality of care, safe and superior housing and appropriate adoption…
Animal Humane Society (AHS) established in 1878 and incorporated as a nonprofit charitable organization in 1891 works to engage the hearts, hands, and minds of the community to help animals. AHS's vision is to compassionately and…
Provide financial support for low-or no - cost pet services, medical treatment, pet supplies and medical equipment to address animal overpopulation and neglect in Kanas City, Kansas.
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Society of Greater Kc and the most unlike its peers is Fix'em Kc. 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 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 127 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 Fix'em KC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
- Who funds CHAIN OF HOPE KC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICA BULLY BREED RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MELISSAS MENAGERIES SECOND CHANCES ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ANIMAL RESQ ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE PET CONNECTION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ARMANIS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds BURGE BIRD RESCUE ↗
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 · Buttonwood Foundation Charitable Tr · Jagoda Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Hickok Family Foundation F/K/A John D Hickok Foundation · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Horizons · Give Back 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 Hunter Legacy 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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