· Public charity
Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation
The foundation enhances the quality of life for the kansas city region through tourism advocacy and workforce development.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of KANSAS CITY REGIONAL DESTINATION DEVELOP MENT FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $306k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER KANSAS CITY RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION | $178,603 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE | $127,167 |
| UNIFIED CONTRACTORS | $24,486 |
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 (FY20–23, $441k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k 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
- MRMISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION8× · 2017–2024 · $904k · revenue +85% · 65% of their budget
- BCBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY2× · 2019–2020 · $127k · revenue +25%
- CVCONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU OF GREATER KANSAS CITY2× · 2020–2021 · $37k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- KCKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INCone grant, 2018 · $152k · revenue +14%
- GCGUADALUPE CENTERS INCone grant, 2022 · $123k · revenue +18%
- BGBOYS GROW CORPone grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +1%
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 kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
Improve wages, benefits and working conditions for members
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
Providing innovative research, message guidance, communication training, communication expertise,and collaborative strategies to aligned organizations to grow their capacity and improve collaborationand coordination among partner groups in…
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.
Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…
The foundation enhances the quality of life for the kansas city region through tourism advocacy and workforce development.
Kansas City Black Urban Growers, Inc., exists to support the current and next generation of farmers and growers.
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Community Gardens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstones of Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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 MISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS GROW CORP ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNIFIED CONTRACTORS OF KANSAS CITY ↗
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: Health Forward Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Vivian & Hymie J Sosland Charitable Trust · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Menorah Heritage Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Shumaker Family 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 Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment 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.