Texas · Private foundation
Ina Calkins Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $385k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Ina Calkins Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $385k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $305k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $330k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $366k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $305k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $300k | 41% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $305k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $300k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City | $400,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Welcome House Inc | $380,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Jackson County Casa | $125,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Amethyst Place Inc | $124,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Services | $107,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Legal Aid of Western Missouri | $100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sheffield Place | $100,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Ability Kc | $87,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Levelup Kids Inc | $84,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Pawsperity Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($536k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ina Calkins Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Ina Calkins Trust
- How much does Ina Calkins Trust give?
- Ina Calkins Trust reported 21 grants totaling $385,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ina Calkins Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Health (31%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Ina Calkins Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City ($400k), Welcome House Inc ($380k), Jackson County Casa ($125k).
- Does Ina Calkins Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ina Calkins Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ina Calkins Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Health Forward Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
- Where is Ina Calkins Trust based?
- Ina Calkins Trust is based in TX.
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