· Public charity
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City
To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
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 $10k8 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $204k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $507k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA | $1,623,030 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $765,741 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $550,599 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS | $519,964 |
| HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY | $433,200 |
| VILLAGE SHALOM | $190,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS - HILLEL | $128,725 |
| TORAH LEARNING CENTER | $70,490 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $63,314 |
| MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION | $54,150 |
| BNAI BIRTH YOUTH ORGANIZATION | $47,500 |
| CHABAD OF KU | $42,280 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC | $38,000 |
| CONGREGATION B'NAI JEHUDAH | $29,383 |
| GAN CHABAD PRESCHOOL | $21,603 |
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 (FY17–24, $9.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +61% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 7 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; $5k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES7× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +105%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY7× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +61%
- HBHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY7× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +23%
Funded once
- HTHillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Lifeone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -12%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +41%- URURBAN RANGER CORPSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +34%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. 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 38 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 50 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds B'NAI B'RITH YOUTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds VAAD HAKASHRUTH OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds DURHAM-CHAPEL HILL JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds Community Kollel of Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds MOISHE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL RAMAH COMMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HERZL CAMP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KAVOD ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF GREATER ROCHESTER NY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN RANGER CORPS ↗
- Who funds CAMP GAN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds ISRALIGHT SOUTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
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: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Harold Grinspoon Foundation · Health Forward 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 Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City 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.
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