· Private foundation
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVESTERS | $1,675 |
| FLOURIS FURNITURE BANK | $1,500 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY | $1,350 |
| AVENUE OF LIFE | $1,300 |
| CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING | $1,000 |
| THE COTERIE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| THE SYMPHONY LEAGUE | $850 |
| PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY | $750 |
| ST MATTHEW'S HOUSE | $750 |
| CITY UNION MISSION | $750 |
| LAKE MARY CENTER | $750 |
| ROSE BROOKS | $650 |
| TURNING POINT | $600 |
| GREAT PLAINS SPCA | $600 |
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, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 9 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, 78% 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
- TCTHE COTERIE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +7%
- AOAVENUE OF LIFE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +79%
- LCLAKEMARY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- LOLYRIC OPERA OF KCone grant, 2017 · $1k
- NANELSON ATKINS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
The kansas city campus for animal care (kccac) is a public-private partnership between the city of kansas city, missouri, and kansas city pet project. (continued on schedule o)the campus is operated by kc pet project, focusing on pet…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bret Miller 1T Foundation Dba BM1TMBCH. 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 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 129 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 COTERIE INC ↗
- Who funds AVENUE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LAKEMARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SPAY & NEUTER KANSAS CITY D/B/A PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds THE FARMER'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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: 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
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 John and Bernice Hamra 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.
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.