· Private foundation
Ina Calkins Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k20 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELCOME HOUSE INC | $120,000 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE | $30,000 |
| ALPHAPOINTE ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $20,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI | $20,000 |
| AMETHYST PLACE INC | $20,000 |
| FOOTPRINTS INC | $15,000 |
| FIRST CALL ALCOHOL & DRUG PREVENTION | $15,000 |
| SHEFFIELD PLACE | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY KANSAS CITY INC | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KC | $10,000 |
| THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| SETON CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| HEALING HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| ABILITY KC | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERDS CENTER OF KANSAS CITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $802k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% 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 +34% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- WHWelcome House Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +246%
- JCJACKSON COUNTY CASA7× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +107%
- APAmethyst Place Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +600%
Funded once
- RSREDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -24%
- SCSHEPHERDS CENTER OF KANSASone grant, 2018 · $15k
- KCKANSAS CITY RESCUE MISSION (SHELTER KC)one grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
All of Cornerstone efforts are directed toward interrupting the cycle of homelessness, providing decent, safe, accessible and affordable housing of choice to moderate and low-income households, and revitalizing Topeka neighborhoods.
The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Provide support for mennonite housing rehabilitation services, inc., which provides low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with ownership opportunities and the…
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 assist low-income homeowners of south central kansas to repair/rehabilitate their homes; to assist qualified low-income residents of south central kansas to purchase homes or to build low-cost homes for these residents; and to provide…
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Upper Room Urban Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 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.
36 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. 36 of the 58 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds BENILDE HALL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds ALPHAPOINTE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER 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 · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman 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 Ina Calkins Trust 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.