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Joel and Judy Cerwick Foundation

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.

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$159kReligion$39kHealth$39kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$21kYouth Development$17kHousing & Shelter$16kPhilanthropy$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$63,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTIN LUTHER ACADEMY$63,200
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $2k → 16%UNBOUND: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$278k · 17 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
34

Total granted

$278k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+17%

Still filing today

24%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterEducationOther

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

  • RH
    RACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +95%
  • CU
    City Union Mission
    3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +1%
  • AP
    Amethyst Place Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +600%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARKINSON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMS - KU ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
3
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
4
The Wichita Children's Home

To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…

Human Services
5
Hope Faith Ministries Inc

Hope Faith Ministries Inc. works to alleviate homelessness and poverty in the Kansas City area by providing basic necessities and assistance while also providing critical programs to help empower individ

Human Services
6
Kansas Recovery Network
Health
7
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

8
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
9
Safehome Inc

To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.

Human Services
10
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
11
Kansas City Dream Center Co

The Kansas City Dream Center connects people in need to a community of support by offering free resources and services that address immediate and long-term needs in the areas of abuse, addiction, education, homelessness and poverty.

Housing & Shelter
12
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Kc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MARTIN LUTHER ACADEMY — $148,900 · OtherMARTIN LUTHER ACADEMYWWI MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $15,000 · OtherIN TIME OF NEED — $15,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KANSAS CITY — $14,500 · OtherFISHERS OF MEN LUTHERAN CHURCH — $12,000 · OtherPARKINSON FOUNDATION — $11,500 · Other+33 more — $111,724 · Other+33 moreRACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC — $11,000 · HealthAmethyst Place Inc — $5,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,000 · HealthCity Union Mission — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER KC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $5,000 · Crime & LegalSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC — $1,000 · Crime & LegalPaws for Heroes — $5,000 · AnimalsKC Healthy Kids — $2,000 · Human ServicesUnbound — $1,000 · Human ServicesCOLDWATER INC — $2,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$328,624Health$18,000Housing & Shelter$16,000Crime & Legal$6,000Animals$5,000Human Services$3,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC — $11,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCity Union Mission — $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSKYWALK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPaws for Heroes — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLDWATER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER KC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKC Healthy Kids — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnbound — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPS FOR KIDS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 RACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC
  • Who funds City Union Mission
  • Who funds SKYWALK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LINC
  • Who funds Paws for Heroes
  • Who funds Amethyst Place Inc
  • Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds COLDWATER INC
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES
  • Who funds SHELTER KC
  • Who funds KC Healthy Kids
  • Who funds GIVING THE BASICS 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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO30× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Servant Foundation · Giving the Basics Inc · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund

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 Joel and Judy Cerwick Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Joel and Judy Cerwick Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Joel and Judy Cerwick Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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