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Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
The mission of the JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY is to promote the practice of tzedakah (righteousness, charity) and the pursuit of tikkun olam (repairing the world) by serving as the central resource and advocate for planned giving and endowments in the kansas city jewish community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k132 grants · $896k
- $10k–50k365 grants · $6.1M
- $50k–250k59 grants · $5.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY ZOO FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $350,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| VILLAGE SHALOM INC | $200,000 |
| HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE | $200,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $200,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $200,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $200,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $200,000 |
| THE ELLIS FOUNDATION | $190,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $185,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $150,000 |
| PORCHLIGHT MUSIC THEATRE CHICAGO | $150,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $7.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
200 repeat relationships: 95 still active in FY2024, 105 since wound down; 50 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY8× · 2017–2024 · $4.9M · revenue +18%
- VSVILLAGE SHALOM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.4M · revenue +49%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY8× · 2017–2024 · $3.7M · revenue +114%
Funded once
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE2× · 2019–2022 · $200k · revenue +12%- SUSpeak Up Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue -17% · 66% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $70k · revenue +33%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
396 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO OF KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELZBERG ENTREPRENEURIAL MENTORING PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF THE HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE MUSSAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FLORENCE MELTON ADULT MINI-SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PACE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
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: The H & R Block Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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