· Public charity
Kansas Bar Foundation
To serve the citizens of kansas and the legal profession through funding charitable and educational projects that foster the welfare, honor and integrity of the legal system by improving its accessibility, equality and uniformity, by enhancing public opinion of the role lawyers play in our society.
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.
The 5 grants below total $455,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $499,826 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $44,826 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES | $275,000 |
| KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES | $125,000 |
| KANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION | $29,500 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER OF KANAS | $15,500 |
| NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- KLKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +49%
- NINATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY6× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +11%
- KCKANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE3× · 2017–2021 · $34k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
- ECEL CENTRO INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +55%
- MOMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULTgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +224%
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.
The mission of casa is to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courts. casa promotes and supports quality volunteer representation for children in order to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing…
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.
To defend kansans effectively, zealously, and respectfully. we will use an interdisciplinary, holistic approach to champion our clients' individual goals and address the root causes of involvement in the legal system.
The mission of citizens against spouse abuse, inc. is to empower domestic and sexual violence survivors to regain control of their lives through education, advocacy, and coordination of community resources.
Reduce the impact an impaired driving crash has on victims, survivors and their families, and increase awareness of the traumatic human consequences of the choice to drive impaired
The children's advocacy center of kansas (cacks) is committed to securing appropriate resources for ensuring the healthy establishment and sustainability of kansas child advocacy centers and the kansas chapter. cacks is committed to…
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
The misson of the aclu foundation of kansas is to protect and defend the constitutional rights and civil liberties of every individual in kansas regardless of creed, race, religion or other labeling through education, advocacy, and…
Protecting children today for stronger families tomorrow.
Provides a voice for abused and neglected children who are under the legal protection of the court system
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CASA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
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: Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Kansas Bar 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.