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Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring emerging technologies from concept to reality.the kc region is a global leader at the nexus of human and…

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$2.1MScience & Tech$750kCommunity Improvement$50kEducation$49k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $99,990 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $103,710 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,720 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.

$49,995
Median grant
1
States reached
$716k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY$49,995
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL$49,995
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $100k → 15%COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $200k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY (KSU): $100k → 20%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $80k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $100k → 15%COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE CTY: $193k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 20%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $50k → 15%KU MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $150k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $100k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CENTER FOR RESEARCH: $50k → 15%KU MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $93k → 16%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 20%SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL OF KANSAS CITY: $40k → 15%KU MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $50k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $47k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER: $100k → 16%MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SE: $50k → 15%CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS: $25k → 15%KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY: $49k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $197k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $149k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $100k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $50k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $50k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $50k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Bionexus Kc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Bionexus Kclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.8% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 7 repeat orgs$224k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$2.7M
$224k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+96%

Still filing today

71%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthScience & TechEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    6× · 2017–2024 · $596k · revenue +67%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $393k · revenue +269%
  • UO
    University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $300k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • MR
    MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +96%
  • KC
    Kansas City Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $49k · revenue +148%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
2
Ku Center for Technology Commercialization Inc

Kuctc is organized to facilitate and support the research and technology transfer operations of the university of kansas and its affiliated tax-exempt research corporations or other tax exempt organizations qualified under section…

Education
3
University Health Physicians

University health physicians provides quality and compassionate healthcare in an environment of academic excellence.

Health
4
Cleveland University - Kansas City

Cleveland University-Kansas City educates and develops leaders in health promotion.

Health
5
Citizens Medical Center Inc

Enhancing the lives of those we serve.

6
Kansas City Care Clinic

The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.

7
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
8
Kansas Health Science University Inc

Kansas Health Science University's mission is to provide access to osteopathic medical and other health sciences education and training through emphasizing opportunity, academic excellence, and community engagement.

Education
9
Heart Surgeons of Kansas City Inc

Heart Surgeons of Kansas City, Inc. was formed for the purpose of providing heart and vascular surgery to patients and related medical services through its employed surgeons.

Health
10
Craig Hospital

Craig Hospital is a 93-bed, long-term acute care and rehabilitation hospital that provides care exclusively for patients with spinal cord and brain injury. The Hospital provides a comprehensive system of inpatient and outpatient medical…

Health
11
Nebraska Methodist Hospital

Nebraska methodist hospital (commonly know as "methodist hospital") is an acute care facility dedicated to bringing high quality care for the mind, body and spirit of every person. we provide community-based health care, health education…

Health
12
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Properties Inc

Title holding company furnishing research facilities to the university of kansas medical center research institute.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute and the most unlike its peers is Community Health Council of Wyandotte County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Children's Mercy Hospital — $595,999 · HealthThe Children's Mercy HospitalCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC — $392,862 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INCUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $292,710 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTESt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City — $169,990 · HealthSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas CityCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI — $646,058 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY — $349,964 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER+1 more — $25,000 · OtherUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $300,000 · Science & TechUniversity …MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementKansas City University — $48,888 · Education
Health$1,451,561Other$1,121,022Science & Tech$300,000Community Improvement$50,000Education$48,888

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $595,999 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC — $392,862 over 2y, 15% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $300,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $292,710 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSt Lukes Hospital of Kansas City — $169,990 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKansas City University — $48,888 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
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.

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.

Health Forward FoundationMO13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation

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 Bionexus Kc 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%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
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bionexus Kc?

    Find your warmest path to Bionexus Kc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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