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John and Bernice Hamra 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.

$22k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
35
Grants FY2024
28
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,675
Organizations funded a year
25 to 44
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$154k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations John and Bernice Hamra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving35$22k26%
FY202328$11k7%
FY202225$13k32%
FY202137$21k16%
FY202037$26k54%
FY201944$25k43%
FY201840$22k57%
FY201742$21kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$43kHealth$25kHuman Services$24kAnimals$19kReligion$13kEducation$9kHousing & Shelter$7kFood & Nutrition$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Coterie Inc$11,90060%
Center for Spiritual Living$7,3503n/a
Avenue of Life Inc$7,00070%
Lakemary Center Inc$6,75080%
Harvesters - the Community Food Network$6,07580%
Wayside Waifs Inc$6,05080%
Salvation Army$6,0005n/a
Rose Brooks Center Inc$4,85070%
Great Plains Spca$4,65080%
Turning Point$4,0505n/a
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All grantees of John and Bernice Hamra Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Coterie Inc$11,90060%
Center for Spiritual Living$7,3503n/a
Avenue of Life Inc$7,00070%
Lakemary Center Inc$6,75080%
Harvesters - the Community Food Network$6,07580%
Wayside Waifs Inc$6,05080%
Salvation Army$6,0005n/a
Rose Brooks Center Inc$4,85070%
Great Plains Spca$4,65080%
Turning Point$4,0505n/a
Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc$3,05040%
University Academy Foundation$2,90050%
St Matthews House Inc$2,30050%
Sanctuary Christian Fellowship$2,1003n/a
Spay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/A Pet Resource Center of Kansas City$2,05030%
The Farmer's House Inc$2,00030%
City Union Mission$1,90030%
Kansas City Symphony$1,70030%
University Academy$1,65030%
Kansas City Art Institute$1,65070%
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc$1,50030%
Young Women on the Move$1,5003n/a
Kansas City CARE Clinic$1,50030%
Kansas City Ballet Association$1,42030%
Humane Society of Greater Kc$1,25030%
Umkc Foundation$1,15030%
Centers for Spiritual Living$1,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$1,00030%
Cristo Rey Kansas City Sisters of Chari Ty of Leavenworth High School$1,00030%
Athens Limestone Animal Shelter Inc$95020%
Operation Breakthrough Inc$90040%
Harriman-Jewell Series$8503n/a
Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc$76540%
Forgotten Felines Inc$75050%
Kvc Health Systems Inc$75010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc$70030%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$60020%
American Heart Association Inc$55030%
Kansas City Jazz Orchestra$50010%
Bret Miller 1t Foundation Dba Bm1tmbch$5001n/a
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$46020%
Widow Wednesday Inc$4502n/a
Delta Gamma Foundation$45030%
Quality Hill Productions$42520%
Life Unlimited Inc$42520%
Kindness Connection Inc$40021%
Covenant House$40020%
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival$40010%
Friends of the Umkc Conservatory$35010%
First Christian Church$3001n/a
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$30010%
Laces of Love Charitable Foundation$30010%
Mimis Pantry$30010%
Christians Helping Others$30010%
Ica Educational Foundation$25010%
Love Haiti Inc$2501n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$25010%
Florida Humane Society Inc$20010%
Chillicothe Educational Foundation$15010%
American Brain Foundation$15010%
Saint Lukes Foundation$10010%
Countryside Christian Church$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Bernice Hamra Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Coterie Inc: $11,900 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAvenue of Life Inc: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLakemary Center Inc: $6,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHarvesters - the Community Food Network: $6,075 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWayside Waifs Inc: $6,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRose Brooks Center Inc: $4,850 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Plains Spca: $4,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLyric Opera of Kansas City Inc: $3,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Academy Foundation: $2,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSt Matthews House Inc: $2,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/A Pet Resource Center of Kansas City: $2,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Farmer's House Inc: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCity Union Mission: $1,900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Symphony: $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Academy: $1,650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Art Institute: $1,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Middle America Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Ballet Association: $1,420 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumane Society of Greater Kc: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUmkc Foundation: $1,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCristo Rey Kansas City Sisters of Chari Ty of Leavenworth High School: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAthens Limestone Animal Shelter Inc: $950 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOperation Breakthrough Inc: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Repertory Theatre Inc: $765 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetForgotten Felines Inc: $750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKvc Health Systems Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Jazz Orchestra: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $460 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Gamma Foundation: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQuality Hill Productions: $425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLife Unlimited Inc: $425 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKindness Connection Inc: $400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCovenant House: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeart of America Shakespeare Festival: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Umkc Conservatory: $350 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLaces of Love Charitable Foundation: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMimis Pantry: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristians Helping Others: $300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetIca Educational Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFlorida Humane Society Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChillicothe Educational Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO39.7× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Copaken Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Ingram Family Foundation · Miller-Mellor Association

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.

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About John and Bernice Hamra Foundation

How much does John and Bernice Hamra Foundation give?
John and Bernice Hamra Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $21,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does John and Bernice Hamra Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Health (16%), Human Services (15%).
Who are John and Bernice Hamra Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Coterie Inc ($12k), Center for Spiritual Living ($7k), Avenue of Life Inc ($7k).
Does John and Bernice Hamra Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John and Bernice Hamra Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John and Bernice Hamra Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, The H & R Block Foundation.
Where is John and Bernice Hamra Foundation based?
John and Bernice Hamra Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 129 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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