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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 FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
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 2025.

Health$544kCommunity Improvement$385kEducation$175kPhilanthropy$125kRecreation & Sports$9kReligion$8k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $117,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,497,375 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,379,875 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$9,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$542M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY: $10k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $15k → 18%AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION: $8k → 14%MISSISSIPPI OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $8k → 26%Center for Practical Bioethics: $8k → 5%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%JOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $12k → 18%KANSAS CITY CARE CLINIC: $10k → 15%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY CARE CLINIC: $10k → 15%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY CARE CLINIC: $10k → 15%ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 15%CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20k → 15%CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20k → 15%CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20k → 15%CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20k → 15%CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20k → 15%CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS: $10k → 15%CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS: $10k → 15%CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS: $10k → 15%CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS: $10k → 15%CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS: $9k → 15%DERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%DERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%DERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%Deron Cherry Charitable Foundation: $25k → 15%Greater Kansas City Sports Foundation: $9k → 15%DERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%GREATER KC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $61k → 15%BIONEXUS KC: $60k → 15%BioNexus KC: $60k → 15%BIONEXUS KC: $55k → 15%BIONEXUS KC: $55k → 15%KANSAS CITY AREA LIFE SCIENCES INSTITUTE: $55k → 15%BIONEXUS KC: $50k → 15%BIONEXUS KC: $50k → 15%KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $40k → 15%GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $31k → 15%GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $28k → 15%GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $28k → 15%GREATER KANSAS CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $26k → 15%KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $20k → 15%Civic Council of Greater Kansas City: $20k → 15%KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $10k → 15%SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 11 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$1.2M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
-17%

Still filing today

91%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
HealthScience & TechEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • BK
    BIONEXUS KC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +34%
  • CO
    CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    5× · 2017–2023 · $173k · revenue +3%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
    4× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURIgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +89%
  • JA
    JOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue -17%
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -18%
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
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

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…

Education
2
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
3
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians

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…

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4
Kansas Medical Society

To cultivate, promote,and disseminate knowledge and information concerning the medical profession and related subjects.

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5
Kansas Pharmacists Association

To preserve, protect and advance kansas pharmacy practice through education, engagement and advocacy.

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6
El Dorado Chamber of Commerce

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.

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7
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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8
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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9
Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce

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.

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10
Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc

To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.

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11
The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

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.

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12
South Kansas City Chamber of Commerce

To promote area commerce

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $173,300 · OtherCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITYCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $125,000 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURITHE CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $120,000 · OtherTHE CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITYCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC: $56,500 · OtherCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INCKansas City CARE Clinic: $30,000 · OtherAMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION: $24,000 · Other+3 more: $34,500 · Other+3 moreBIONEXUS KC: $385,000 · Science & TechBIONEXUS KCDERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $125,000 · PhilanthropyDERON CHERRY…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $7,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDER…KANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $80,000 · Community ImprovementROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $15,150 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 · HealthGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $9,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$563,300Science & Tech$385,000Philanthropy$132,500Community Improvement$80,000Education$50,000Health$25,150Recreation & Sports$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIONEXUS KC: $385,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $173,300 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetDERON CHERRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetTHE CIVIC COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $120,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY AREA DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC: $56,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $15,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $11,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSISSIPPI OSTEOPATHIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 1y, 2.9% 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.

Saint Lukes Health Sy…William T Kemper Foun…The Sunderland Founda…Greater Kansas City C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Saint Lukes Health System IncMO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas City University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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