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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.
- $456k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $131k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $55,098
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $773k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 71% of the organizations Kansas City Soccer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $131k | 83% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $128k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $177k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $314k | 78% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $140k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $116k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $108k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 3 | $105k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $708,926 | 8 | 0% |
| Variety of Greater Kansas City Tent 8 | $65,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Legends for Life Inc | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kc Blind All-Stars Foundation | $32,720 | 1 | 10% |
| Shadow Buddies Foundation Inc | $27,875 | 3 | 5% |
| Teamsmile Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Youth R I S E | $20,000 | 2 | 35% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of Wichita Kansas (2311) | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ryogoku Soccer Academy | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 26 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($49k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kansas City Soccer Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Kansas City Soccer Foundation
- How much does Kansas City Soccer Foundation give?
- Kansas City Soccer Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $130,598, out of $455,951 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kansas City Soccer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (77%), Recreation & Sports (7%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Kansas City Soccer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Children's Mercy Hospital ($709k), Variety of Greater Kansas City Tent 8 ($65k), Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc ($65k).
- Does Kansas City Soccer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kansas City Soccer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Kansas City Royals Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
- Where is Kansas City Soccer Foundation based?
- Kansas City Soccer Foundation is based in MO.
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