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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.

$334k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$127,167
Largest grant, FY2023
$178,603
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$883k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$330k67%
FY20222$237k50%
FY20213$234k0%
FY20205$249k60%
FY20192$253k50%
FY20182$290k50%
FY20174$223kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Employment$929kHuman Services$441kFood & Nutrition$187kYouth Development$162kArts & Culture$37kHealth$35kCommunity Improvement$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 12 grantees
All grantees of Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Missouri Restaurant Association Education$904,482865%
The Don Bosco Centers$190,09125%
Kansas City Community Gardens Inc$151,741112%
Cornerstones of Care$127,16710%
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City$127,10722%
Guadalupe Centers Inc$123,29011%
Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City$37,20020%
Cultivate Kansas City Inc$35,00013%
Children's Center for the Visually Impai$35,00011%
Boys Grow Corp$35,00015%
Community Capital Fund$25,00014%
Unified Contractors of Kansas City$24,486119%

Where it is load-bearing

Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMissouri Restaurant Association Education: $904,482 over 8y, 65% of budgetThe Don Bosco Centers: $190,091 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetKansas City Community Gardens Inc: $151,741 over 1y, 12% of budgetCornerstones of Care: $127,167 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBoys Club of Greater Kansas City: $127,107 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGuadalupe Centers Inc: $123,290 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetConvention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City: $37,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCultivate Kansas City Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetChildren's Center for the Visually Impai: $35,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBoys Grow Corp: $35,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCommunity Capital Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUnified Contractors of Kansas City: $24,486 over 1y, 19% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Health Forward FoundationMO24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation

How much does Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation give?
Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $334,054 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Employment (51%), Human Services (24%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Missouri Restaurant Association Education ($904k), The Don Bosco Centers ($190k), Kansas City Community Gardens Inc ($152k).
Does Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Health Forward Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Oppenstein Brothers Foundation.
Where is Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation based?
Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation is based in MO.

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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $203k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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