Missouri · Public charity
Kansas City University
Kansas City University is a community of professionals committed to excellence in education, research, patient care and community service while improving the well-being of the communities we serve.
- $4.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $118k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 12
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $542M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Kansas City University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $110k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $54k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $200k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $231k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $186k | 22% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $219k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $119k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bionexus Kc | $385,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City | $173,300 | 5 | 1% |
| Deron Cherry Charitable Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $125,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kansas City Area Development Council | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Center for Practical Bioethics Inc | $56,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Rockhurst University | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kansas City CARE Clinic | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Osteopathic Foundation | $24,000 | 3 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bionexus Kc | $385,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City | $173,300 | 5 | 1% |
| Deron Cherry Charitable Foundation | $125,000 | 5 | 14% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $125,000 | 5 | n/a |
| The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City | $120,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kansas City Area Development Council | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Center for Practical Bioethics Inc | $56,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Rockhurst University | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kansas City CARE Clinic | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| American Osteopathic Foundation | $24,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Samuel U Rodgers Health Center Inc | $15,150 | 2 | 0% |
| Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce | $11,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Greater Kansas City Sports Foundation | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi Osteopathic Medical Association | $8,000 | 1 | 3% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kansas City University supplied at peak.
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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: Saint Lukes Health System Inc · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Kansas City University
- How much does Kansas City University give?
- Kansas City University reported 6 itemized grants totaling $117,500, out of $4,497,375 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Kansas City University fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (44%), Community Improvement (31%), Education (14%).
- Who are Kansas City University's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bionexus Kc ($385k), Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City ($173k), Deron Cherry Charitable Foundation ($125k).
- Does Kansas City University fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kansas City University?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Saint Lukes Health System Inc, William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee, The Sunderland Foundation.
- Where is Kansas City University based?
- Kansas City University is based in MO.
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