· Public charity
Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund
Children's services fund ('csf') is an innovative way to support child well-being projects.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k93 grants · $2.8M
- $50k–250k120 grants · $15M
- $250k+31 grants · $9.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDEPENDENCE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $419,036 |
| FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT | $410,483 |
| EVANGELICAL CHILDREN'S HOME DBA EVERY CHILD'S HOPE | $375,000 |
| NILES HOME FOR CHILDREN DBA KVC NILES | $360,000 |
| SCHOOL SMART KC | $356,126 |
| DELASALLE EDUCATION CENTER | $346,049 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $333,046 |
| NURTURE KC | $330,000 |
| THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY | $330,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY (JVS) | $330,000 |
| NURTURE KC | $329,997 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $324,000 |
| SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL DBA CRITTENTON CHILDREN'S CENTER | $323,550 |
| ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC | $321,323 |
| EVANGELICAL CHILDREN'S HOME DBA EVERY CHILD'S HOPE | $315,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $27.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 85 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 40 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M 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
- ECEvangelical Children's Home7× · 2018–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +31%
- COCORNERSTONES OF CARE7× · 2018–2024 · $3.6M · revenue +90%
- SLSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City7× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +30%
Funded once
- HMHILLCREST MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $170k · revenue +10%
- SMShow Me KC Schools Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +144%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -3%
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.
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.
Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
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…
Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Transforming the lives of children and families in our community with a continuum of care.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule "o".with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peace Partnership Inc. 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 32 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 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.
126 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. 126 of the 141 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 Evangelical Children's Home ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds Rediscover ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds Mothers Refuge ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds PREFERRED FAMILY HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURE KC ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL FAMILY AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER & EMERGENCY SHELTER FOR CHILDR ↗
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: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Sunderland Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Commerce Bancshares 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 Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% 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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