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Ina Calkins Trust at a glance

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Ina Calkins Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$385k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MHealth$891kHousing & Shelter$339kCrime & Legal$225kReligion$129kEducation$38kEmployment$30kYouth Development$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k20 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SHEFFIELD PLACE$15,000
FIRST CALL ALCOHOL & DRUG PREVENTION$15,000
WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KC$10,000
ABILITY KC$10,000
HEALING HOUSE INC$10,000
SHEPHERDS CENTER OF KANSAS CITY$10,000
PAWSPERITY$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY KANSAS CITY INC$10,000
SETON CENTER INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $27k → 5%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $110k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 5%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $110k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 5%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $100k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $20k → 5%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $30k → 15%EPEC INC: $20k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20k → 15%EPEC INC: $20k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20k → 15%EPEC INC: $20k → 15%REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC: $15k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $10k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $10k → 15%PAWSPERITY: $10k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $10k → 15%PAWSPERITY: $10k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $10k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $5k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES INC: $10k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $10k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $10k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $8k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 15%PETE'S GARDEN: $5k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $11k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $9k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $7k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 38 repeat orgs$208k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against -24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
16

Total granted

$2.7M
$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-24%

Still filing today

68%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCivil RightsCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • WH
    Welcome House Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +246%
  • JC
    JACKSON COUNTY CASA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $125k · revenue +107%
  • AP
    Amethyst Place Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHEPHERDS CENTER OF KANSAS
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY RESCUE MISSION (SHELTER KC)
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • RS
    REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -24%
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.

1
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
2
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
3
Freedom House Ministries

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…

Education
4
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health
5
Cornerstone of Topeka Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
6
Housing Services of Kansas City Inc

The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.

Housing & Shelter
7
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
8
Kansas Affordable Housing Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Kansas City Community Land Trust

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.

Housing & Shelter
10
Interfaith Housing and Community Service

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…

Community Improvement
11
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
12
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABILITY KC: $87,000 · OtherABILITY KCFIRST CALL ALCOHOL & DRUG PREVENTION: $85,000 · OtherFIRST CALL ALCOHOL & DRUG PREVENTIO…Seton Center Inc: $75,000 · OtherSeton Center IncFIRST CALL ALCOHOL & DRUG: $70,000 · OtherFIRST CALL ALCOHOL & DRUGTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $60,000 · OtherTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORAT…JFS - JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INC: $55,000 · OtherJFS - JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES INCMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY: $40,000 · OtherLAZARUS MINISTRIES GRAND AVENUE TEMPLE: $35,000 · OtherSHEPHERDS CENTER OF KANSAS CITY: $32,500 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY: $30,000 · Other+22 more: $330,500 · Other+22 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $400,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATI…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $107,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESPAWSPERITY INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INCTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS: $65,000 · Human ServicesTHE DON BOSCO CENTERSCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $50,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CAREHEALING HOUSE INC: $37,465 · Human ServicesHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $27,600 · Human Services+4 more: $35,000 · Human ServicesWelcome House Inc: $380,000 · HealthWelcome House IncAmethyst Place Inc: $124,500 · HealthAmethyst Place IncLEVELUP KIDS INC: $84,500 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS INCBENILDE HALL: $47,500 · HealthBENILDE HALLKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC: $45,000 · HealthKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC+4 more: $42,500 · Health+4 moreSHEFFIELD PLACE: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINC: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $36,000 · Housing & ShelterJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $125,000 · Civil RightsLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $100,000 · Crime & LegalALPHAPOINTE: $30,000 · Employment
Other$900,000Human Services$802,065Health$724,000Housing & Shelter$191,000Civil Rights$125,000Crime & Legal$100,000Employment$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $400,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWelcome House Inc: $380,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $125,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $124,500 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $107,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $100,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE: $100,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetABILITY KC: $87,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $84,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPAWSPERITY INC: $80,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSeton Center Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS: $65,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC: $55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBENILDE HALL: $47,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC: $45,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING HOUSE INC: $37,465 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALPHAPOINTE: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $27,600 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHope Faith Ministries Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetShepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETES GARDEN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 FOOTPRINTS INC ↗

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 C…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Menorah Heritage Foun…The Sunderland Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…Marion and Henry Bloc…The H & R Block Found…William T Kemper Foun…Jackson County Commun…The Kansas City Royal…Ewing Marion Kauffman…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO60.9× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ina Calkins Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ina Calkins Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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