· Private foundation
Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $13k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| VILLAGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,500 |
| SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| POWELL GARDENS | $2,500 |
| TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS | $2,000 |
| KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS | $1,000 |
| ROSE BROOKS CENTER | $500 |
| SHELTER KC | $500 |
| WAYSIDE WAIFS | $500 |
| ASPCA | $250 |
| CITY UNION MISSION | $250 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $250 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $250 |
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 (FY18–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
- HAHORIZON ACADEMY5× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +84%
- SISHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +118%
- PGPOWELL GARDENS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- WHWelcome House Incone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -42%
- SOSOCIETY OF FELLOWS - NELSON ATKINS MUSEUMone grant, 2019 · $5k
- AFACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +118%
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
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.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
To assist the state of kansas in helping to improve the health of all kansans, particularly those unserved or underserved.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Kc and the most unlike its peers is Americas Foundation 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 46 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 42 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 PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HORIZON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds TUCSON BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SHELTER KC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP ROOTS KC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI ↗
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 · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · The Torosian Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons
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 Jack and Susan Pierson Charitable 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.