How much does Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City give?

Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City reported 25 grants totaling $4,690,953 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 28 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Philanthropy (35%), Education (13%).

Who are Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Family Services ($5.0M), Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City ($3.4M), Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy ($3.3M).

Does Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City based?

Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City is based in KS.

Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.

$4.7M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.6M

Largest

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 2024.

Human Services$13MPhilanthropy$12MEducation$4.4MCivil Rights$2.7MYouth Development$659kReligion$541kFood & Nutrition$483kEmployment$366kOther$0

02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $56k
$10k–50k7 grants · $204k
$50k–250k5 grants · $507k
$250k+5 grants · $3.9M

$38,000

Median grant

States reached

$39M

Total assets

Largest grants
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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$22M · 28 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +93% since the first grant, against +49% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$22M

$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%

+49%

Still filing today

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesReligionEducationHousing & ShelterCivil RightsRecreation & SportsOther

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

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
7× · 2017–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +105%
JC
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
7× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +114%
HB
HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY
7× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +23%

Funded once

HT
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -12%
HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFEgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +41%
UR
URBAN RANGER CORPSgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue +34%

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.

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.

Philanthropy

Young Judaea Camp Tel Yehudah Inc

Camp tel yehudah inspires jewish and zionist youth around the world to experience and embrace the diversity of the jewish people in a joyful and diverse community while training them to become leaders who effect positive change for the…

Recreation & Sports

Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education

Young Judaea Global Inc

Young judaea is a diverse community that educates and empowers jewish youth to deeply engage with israel and to lead positive change for the jewish people, israel and the world.

Education

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington

As the central community relations agency of the organized jewish community in our nation's capital, the jcrc of greater washington endeavors to foster a society based on freedom, justice and democratic pluralism for it is such a society…

Community Improvement

Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee

The jewish federation of nashville is the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community. through its fund-raising, planning and community relations efforts, either independently or in partnership with other jewish…

Philanthropy

Mid-Kansas Jewish Federation Inc

Build, strengthen, and preserve jewish identity within the local community, in israel, and around the world through tzedakah, education, and cultural events.

Religion

Israeli-American Council

The organization's mission is to build an engaged and united israeli-american community that strengthens the israeli and jewish identity of our next generation, the american-jewish community and the bond between the peoples of the united…

Human Services

Partners in Torah

Offering jewish adults a personal connection to judaism,fostering a sense of belonging to the greater jewishcommunity, and building bridges between jews of allbackgrounds. to date, over 74,000 men and women from 39countries have been…

Religion

The Academy for Jewish Religion

The academy for jewish religion serves the needs of the jewish people by ordaining rabbis and cantors and training leaders. we affirm our commitment to a vibrant and inclusive jewish pluralism; to an interweaving of sacred texts, critical…

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University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of Greater Rochester Ny Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 50 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/39

Grantees still filing

33/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Philanthropy$15,283,235Human Services$8,970,085Education$4,308,895Civil Rights$2,638,114Other$2,045,113Youth Development$412,558Religion$264,643

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.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas CityKS34.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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