· Private foundation
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTIN LUTHER ACADEMY | $63,200 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +75% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHRACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $11k · revenue +95%
- CUCity Union Mission3× · 2021–2023 · $8k · revenue +1%
- APAmethyst Place Inc3× · 2019–2021 · $5k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- PFPARKINSON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $12k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMS - KU ENDOWMENTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.
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…
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…
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
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
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.
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…
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.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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 RACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds SKYWALK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Paws for Heroes ↗
- Who funds COLDWATER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KC Healthy Kids ↗
- Who funds SHELTER KC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joel and Judy Cerwick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joel and Judy Cerwick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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