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John and Bernice Hamra Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
5
States reached
$154k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAKEMARY CENTER: $2k → 7%MIMIS PANTRY: $300 → 8%LAKEMARY CENTER: $1k → 7%LAKE MARY CENTER: $1k → 7%LAKEMARY CENTER: $1k → 7%LAKE MARY CENTER: $750 → 7%LAKEMARY CENTER: $500 → 7%AVENUE OF LIFE: $2k → 8%LAKEMARY CENTER: $500 → 7%AVENUE OF LIFE: $1k → 8%LAKE MARY CENTER: $500 → 7%AVENUE OF LIFE: $600 → 16%AVENUE OF LIFE: $1k → 8%AVENUE OF LIFE: $1k → 8%AVENUE OF LIFE: $1k → 8%AVENUE OF LIFE: $500 → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED: $125 → 8%KINDNESS CONNECTION: $250 → 5%KINDNESS CONNECTION: $150 → 5%LIFE UNLIMITED: $300 → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

MN
IL
NY
OH
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
DC
OK
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$134k · 60 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
60

Total granted

$134k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+33%

Still filing today

62%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
Arts & CultureHealthEducationAnimalsHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TC
    THE COTERIE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $12k · revenue +7%
  • AO
    AVENUE OF LIFE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +79%
  • LC
    LAKEMARY CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA OF KC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • NA
    NELSON ATKINS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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.

1
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
2
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
3
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
4
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
5
Kansas City Campus for Animal Care

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…

Animals
6
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
7
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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8
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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9
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education
10
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

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11
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
12
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
40/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: $7,350 · OtherCENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVINGTHE COTERIE THEATER: $6,550 · OtherTHE COTERIE THEATERSALVATION ARMY: $6,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $4,850 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INCTURNING POINT: $4,050 · OtherTHE SYMPHONY LEAGUE: $3,750 · Other+87 more: $52,510 · Other+87 moreTHE COTERIE INC: $11,900 · Arts & CultureTHE COTERIE INCLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $3,050 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF …KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $1,700 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYM…KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $1,420 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BAL…HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $850 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $765 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,675 · Arts & Culture+4 moreWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $6,050 · AnimalsWAYSIDE WAI…GREAT PLAINS SPCA: $4,650 · AnimalsGREAT PLAIN…SPAY & NEUTER KANSAS CITY D/B/A PET RESOURCE CENTER OF KANSAS CITY: $2,050 · AnimalsSPAY & NEUT…HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC: $1,250 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCI…ATHENS LIMESTONE ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $950 · AnimalsATHENS LIME…Forgotten Felines Inc: $750 · Animals+1 more: $200 · AnimalsAVENUE OF LIFE INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesAVENUE OF …LAKEMARY CENTER INC: $6,750 · Human ServicesLAKEMARY C…+4 more: $1,525 · Human Services+4 moreUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $2,900 · EducationUNIVERSITY ACADEMY: $1,650 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $1,650 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATION: $1,150 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $900 · EducationDELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION: $450 · Education+2 more: $450 · EducationHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $6,075 · Food & NutritionCHRISTIANS HELPING OTHERS: $300 · Food & NutritionST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC: $2,300 · Housing & ShelterTHE FARMER'S HOUSE INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCity Union Mission: $1,900 · Housing & Shelter
Other$85,060Arts & Culture$21,360Animals$15,900Human Services$15,275Education$9,150Food & Nutrition$6,375Housing & Shelter$6,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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 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 UNIVERSITY ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE ↗
  • Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
  • Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗

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 C…Jewish Community Foun…The H & R Block Found…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…The Francis Family Fo…United Way of Greater…Copaken Family Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Sherman Family Fo…The Sunderland Founda…The Ingram Family Fou…Miller-Mellor Associa…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John and Bernice Hamra Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Bernice Hamra Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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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