· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $117,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,497,375 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,379,875 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BioNexus KC | $60,000 |
| Deron Cherry Charitable Foundation | $25,000 |
| Greater Kansas City Sports Foundation | $9,000 |
| Center for Practical Bioethics | $8,000 |
| American Osteopathic Foundation - AOF | $8,000 |
| JCRBAJC | $7,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of your 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 +31% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- BKBIONEXUS KC7× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +34%
- COCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY5× · 2017–2023 · $173k · revenue +3%
- KCKANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL4× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURIgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +89%
- JAJOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -17%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -18%
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.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…
The mission of the el dorado chamber of commerce is to enhance and develop the economic vitality of business through leadership, education, advocacy, and relationship development.
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Our mission is to inspire the iowa city area to be greater by: 1) elevating business, 2) investing in strategic initiatives, and 3) advocating for the economic resiliency of the greater community.
To preserve, protect and advance kansas pharmacy practice through education, engagement and advocacy.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
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…
To work for the advancement of the business community, to enhance the economic, civic and cultural environment, and to improve the quality of life in jefferson parish, louisiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 BIONEXUS KC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds DERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION 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: 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
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 University 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.