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Junior League of Kansas City Missouri

The junior league of kansas city, missouri (jlkcmo) is a 501(c)(3) organziation of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

$79k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$28k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$7.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Junior League of Kansas City Missouri funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving4$28k75%
FY20245$35k60%
FY20233$23k33%
FY20222$14k50%
FY20215$28k60%
FY20205$42k40%
FY20199$53k67%
FY20189$54k100%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$89kHealth$69kHousing & Shelter$41kArts & Culture$36kFood & Nutrition$29kEducation$28kYouth Development$18kPublic Safety & Disaster$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Junior League of Kansas City Missouri supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHappybottoms: $29,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $28,916 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $19,823 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGordon Parks Elementary School: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Kansas City: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Young Audiences Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRose Brooks Center Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYoung Women on the Move: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Inner City Services Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHarry S Truman Children's Neurological Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLazarus Ministries Kc: $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetJewish Family Services: $8,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAvenue of Life Inc: $8,519 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCristo Rey Kansas City Sisters of Chari Ty of Leavenworth High School: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Movement Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetChildren's Center for the Visually Impai: $7,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHillcrest Ministries of Midamerica: $7,190 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSamuel U Rodgers Health Center Inc: $6,519 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMothers Refuge: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPlatte Senior Services Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHopekids Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStonelion Puppet Theatre: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCornerstones of Care: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys Club of Greater Kansas City: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Whole Person Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShadow Buddies Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLevelup Kids Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRestart Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSafehome Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJourney to New Life INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 34.

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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 FoundationMO58× affinity31 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 · Health Forward Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Servant Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust

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 Junior League of Kansas City Missouri

How much does Junior League of Kansas City Missouri give?
Junior League of Kansas City Missouri reported 4 itemized grants totaling $28,170, out of $78,855 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Junior League of Kansas City Missouri fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (27%), Health (21%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
Who are Junior League of Kansas City Missouri's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Happybottoms ($30k), Kansas City Hospice Inc ($29k), Amethyst Place Inc ($20k).
Does Junior League of Kansas City Missouri fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Junior League of Kansas City Missouri?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, Health Forward Foundation.
Where is Junior League of Kansas City Missouri based?
Junior League of Kansas City Missouri is based in MO.

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 37 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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