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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
1
States reached
$179k
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 2023.

Employment$929kHuman Services$441kFood & Nutrition$187kYouth Development$162kArts & Culture$37kHealth$35kCommunity Improvement$25k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $24k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $306k
$127,167
Median grant
1
States reached
$883k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER KANSAS CITY RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION$178,603
CORNERSTONES OF CARE$127,167
UNIFIED CONTRACTORS$24,486
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $127k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $116k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $74k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER: $123k → 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 4 repeat orgs$557k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$1.3M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureEnvironmentCommunity 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

  • MR
    MISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $904k · revenue +85% · 65% of their budget
  • BC
    BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    2× · 2019–2020 · $127k · revenue +25%
  • CV
    CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $37k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • KC
    KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $152k · revenue +24%
  • GC
    GUADALUPE CENTERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $123k · revenue +18%
  • CK
    CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +84%
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 Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Kansas City Country Club

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…

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3
Greater Kansas City Building & Construction Trades

Improve wages, benefits and working conditions for members

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4
Kansas City Community Land Trust

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Kansas Coalition for Common Sense Inc

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…

Civil Rights
6
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

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7
Great Jobs Kc Inc

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.

Education
8
Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation

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…

Education
9
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
10
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.

Community Improvement
11
Kansas City Black Urban Growers Inc

Kansas City Black Urban Growers, Inc., exists to support the current and next generation of farmers and growers.

Food & Nutrition
12
Kansas Cooperative Council

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Community Gardens Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATION: $904,482 · OtherMISSOURI RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONCONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $37,200 · OtherCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI: $35,000 · OtherTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS: $190,091 · Human ServicesTHE DON BOSCO CENTERSCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $127,167 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CAREGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $123,290 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE CENTERS INCBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $127,107 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB …BOYS GROW CORP: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS GROW …KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $151,741 · EnvironmentKANSAS CI…CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND: $25,000 · Arts & CultureUNIFIED CONTRACTORS OF KANSAS CITY: $24,486 · Community Improvement
Other$976,682Human Services$440,548Youth Development$162,107Environment$151,741Food & Nutrition$35,000Arts & Culture$25,000Community Improvement$24,486

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 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
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.

Health Forward Founda…Greater Kansas City C…Oppenstein Brothers F…United Way of Greater…Jewish Community Foun…Vivian & Hymie J Sosl…R a Long Foundation 6…Menorah Heritage Foun…William T Kemper Foun…The H & R Block Found…Marion and Henry Bloc…The Shumaker Family F…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas City Regional Destination Develop Ment Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
    6report 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, FY20–25
    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 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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