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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.

$500k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$2.9MHuman Services$18kCivil Rights$16kPublic Benefit$10kCommunity Improvement$5k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $455,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $499,826 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $44,826 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$29,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAFEHOME: $4k → 5%MIDWEST FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $4k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $4k → 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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 5 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$2.9M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
Human ServicesCrime & LegalSocial ScienceCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • KL
    KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +49%
  • NI
    NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $58k · revenue +11%
  • KC
    KANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    3× · 2017–2021 · $34k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • EC
    EL CENTRO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +55%
  • MO
    METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULTgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +224%
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
North Central Kansas Casa Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
2
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
3
Kansas City Anti Violence Project

To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.

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4
Kansas Holistic Defenders Incorporated

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.

Crime & Legal
5
Citizens Against Spouse Abuse Inc

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.

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6
Dui Victims Center of Kansas Inc

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

Education
7
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kansas Inc

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…

Youth Development
8
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
9
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Ks

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…

Civil Rights
10
First Judicial District Casa Association

Protecting children today for stronger families tomorrow.

Civil Rights
11
Central Kansas Court Appointed Special Advocates

Provides a voice for abused and neglected children who are under the legal protection of the court system

Civil Rights
12
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Legal Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $2,734,050 · OtherKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC+3 more: $91,670 · OtherKANSAS CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $73,523 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $4,273 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY: $58,000 · Social ScienceDISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER OF KANSAS INC: $15,500 · Civil RightsSAFEHOME INC: $4,273 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $4,273 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC: $4,273 · Human ServicesEL CENTRO INC: $5,000 · Community Improvement
Other$2,825,720Crime & Legal$77,796Social Science$58,000Civil Rights$15,500Human Services$12,819Community Improvement$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $2,734,050 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetKANSAS CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $73,523 over 4y, 14% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR TRIAL ADVOCACY: $58,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS BAR ASSOCIATION: $48,170 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetKANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $33,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS CENTER OF KANSAS INC: $15,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL CENTRO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $4,273 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $4,273 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $4,273 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $4,273 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.

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.

Oppenstein Brothers F…Jewish Community Foun…United Way of Greater…The Sunderland Founda…Greater Kansas City C…R a Long Foundation 6…Menorah Heritage Foun…The Shumaker Family F…The Kansas City Royal…Health Forward Founda…Commerce Bancshares F…The Blackbaud Giving …
Oppenstein Brothers FoundationMO15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Kansas Bar Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas Bar Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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