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Kansas City Children's Assistance Network

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$94k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0179% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.

Human Services$175kEducation$94kPhilanthropy$36kCrime & Legal$34kHealth$22kYouth Development$17kInternational$16kCommunity Improvement$13kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$119k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $81,980 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $94,470 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,490 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

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$201k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KC AUTISM TRAINING CENTER$18,980
WONDERSCOPE$18,000
KIDS HAIR & SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM$15,000
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KCKS$12,500
SLEEPYHEAD BEDS$10,000
BIRTHDAY CONNECTIONS$7,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AVENUE OF LIFE: $25k → 16%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $91k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $15k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $14k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE OF JACKSON COUNTY: $20k → 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.

03Your 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
Keeping Kids Safe Inc

Keeping kids safe, inc. is devoted to provide safe loving foster homes for children. we are dedicated to model and teach christian values and morals while empowering children to thrive emotionally, socially, cognitively and physically.

Human Services
2
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

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
Empowering Parents Kansas City

Empowering Parent believes strong families are the foundation of strong communities, therefore we restore and unite families by providing therapeutic, parent aide, and mentor services

Human Services
5
Racial Equity Collaborative

The Racial Equity Collaborative REC executes programming that brings together families mandated reporters the child welfare workforce and other human service providers to build shared multi-disciplinary knowledge and accountability in…

Civil Rights
6
Kc Social Innovation Center Inc

KCSIC manages a portfolio of programs, projects and pilots that create a network for technology, community, investment, education and business sectors to work directly with youth, and come together to solve Kansas City's biggest problems…

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7
Sunlight Children's Services Inc

To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.

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8
Youth Home Inc

To equip and empower youth, adults, and families to become healthier and contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral intensive residential treatment & qualified residential treatment for ages…

Health
9
The Hope Center Inc

To provided asset based progras, and opportunities for sustainable growth and development, where children, youth, and families can flourish in Kansas City east side. Our vision is to develop healthy communities where the vulnerable can…

Human Services
10
The Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy Incorporated

To educate, mentor & support youth with disabilities to be contributingmembers of their community.

Youth Development
11
Safehome Inc

To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.

Human Services
12
Kids Crossing

Kids crossing's vision is to provide a safe and caring home for every child. our mission is to strengthen families so they may provide the best care for those children entrusted to them.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Love Fund for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samuel U Rodgers Health Care Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr13%21%5–10yr16%21%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr12%29%35–55yr25%4%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr13%19%5–10yr16%20%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr12%45%35–55yr25%4%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
13%
1,081/8,400

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
10/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Mothers Refuge — $90,750 · Human ServicesMothers RefugeSLEEPYHEAD BEDS — $39,000 · Human ServicesSLEEPYHEAD BEDSAVENUE OF LIFE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesAVENUE OF LIFE INCCommunity Services League of Jackson County — $20,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Services League of Jackson…NEWHOUSE INC — $66,800 · OtherNEWHOUSE INCKIDS HAIR ACADEMY AND SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM — $15,000 · OtherKIDS HAIR ACADEMY AND SKILL DEVEL…Rosedale Development Association — $12,000 · OtherRosedale Development AssociationLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 · OtherLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INCBIRTHDAY CONNECTIONS — $7,500 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $16,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMER…Exceeds Expectations Inc — $12,500 · OtherExceeds Expectations IncPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KCKS — $12,500 · OtherPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KCKSWECODE KC — $7,475 · OtherSCREEN SANITY INC — $50,000 · EducationSCREEN SANITY INCKANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC — $18,980 · EducationKANSAS CITY AUTISM …WONDERSCOPE INC — $18,000 · EducationWONDERSCOPE INCFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES — $7,000 · EducationFREEDOM HOUSE MINIS…THE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $22,500 · PhilanthropySamuel U Rodgers Health Care Foundation Inc — $13,000 · PhilanthropySUNFLOWER HOUSE INC — $18,989 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC — $14,100 · HealthTHE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION — $7,500 · HealthTRANSITION ZONE INC — $16,500 · Youth Development
Human Services$174,750Other$159,775Education$93,980Philanthropy$35,500Crime & Legal$33,989Health$21,600Youth Development$16,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMothers Refuge — $90,750 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $66,800 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSCREEN SANITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSLEEPYHEAD BEDS — $39,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAVENUE OF LIFE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GEM THEATER CULTURAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $22,500 over 1y, 55% of budgetCommunity Services League of Jackson County — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC — $18,989 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC — $18,980 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC — $14,100 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetExceeds Expectations Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KCKS — $12,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRosedale Development Association — $12,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE GABBY KRAUSE FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWECODE KC — $7,475 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE MINISTRIES — $7,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The H & R Block Found…Jackson County Commun…Health Forward Founda…The Sunderland Founda…The Kansas City Royal…Oppenstein Brothers F…Greater HorizonsCommerce Bancshares F…R a Long Foundation 6…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO45.6× affinity22 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 · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Greater Horizons · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg

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 City Children's Assistance Network 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 24 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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