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Kansas City Soccer Foundation
The Kansas City Soccer Foundation was founded by sporting kansas city exclusively to provide charitable and educational programs in the kansas city metropolitan area to benefit disadvantaged youth and individuals and related programs by providing education, access and participation in soccer and related events.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $130,598 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $455,951 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $325,353 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 · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $55,098 |
| LEGENDS FOR LIFE INC | $35,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC | $12,500 |
| KC FUSION | $12,000 |
| SPORTING BROOKSIDE | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $6,000 |
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 (FY19–23, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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 +67% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · $709k · revenue +67%
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $65k · revenue +19%
- VOVARIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY TENT 83× · 2019–2022 · $65k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- KBKC BLIND ALL-STARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue -20%
- TYTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311)one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +2%
- RSRyogoku Soccer Academyone grant, 2022 · $15k
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 mission of the Overland Park Soccer Club is to provide an opportunity for players and coaches to learn, play and coach the game of soccer, at any level of competition, in a safe, fun value oriented environment, encouraging…
The kcyha provides a fun developmental and competitive athletic experience to its players and their families.
Kansas City 3&2 Baseball provides youth baseball league and associated activities for the betterment of the community.
Introduce the game of soccer to youth of all ages and skill levels with the purpose of providing the opportunity for each player to develop to their highest potential. Maintain an environment that embodies the core values of integrity,…
The mission of Sporting Wichita is to provide a positive safe and professional environment which encourages early development and fosters a lifelong interest in soccer We seek to provide consistent quality programming structure education…
Galaxy soccer club is committed to providing the best soccer educators and programs to prepare players ages 18 and younger, for the highest level of desired play whether it is high school, college, olympic development program (odp) or…
Focus and organize community support for the sporting events the city enjoys and facilitate the acquisition of additional sporting events.
Foster and support amateur sports competition
Childrens Recreational Sports Association
To enrich the lives of our community by providing an environment that promotes positive development of all ages.
Our principal mission is the promotion of youth soccer. we strive to instill a love for the game in each of our players and to provide an atmosphere where each player may participate and progress according to his or her interest and…
Cultivate an inclusive community that fosters personal and athletic growth. We strive to embody unity development excellence through sports and inspire individuals to reach their full potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/a Mattie Rhodes Center and the most unlike its peers is Global Fc. 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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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.
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 The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds VARIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY TENT 8 ↗
- Who funds KC BLIND ALL-STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAMSMILE INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
- Who funds YOUTH R I S E ↗
- Who funds Ryogoku Soccer Academy ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds KC FUSION SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds The Whole Person Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKSIDE SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds 15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds KYMEL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds KC INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Soccer 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.
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