· Public charity
Kc Action Fund
KC ACTION FUND's mission was to advocate for a world-class public education for all students through data, policy, and collaboration across kansas city.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL SMART KC INC | $200,000 |
| REVOLUCION EDUCATIVA INC | $125,000 |
| BLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT | $125,000 |
| COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND | $97,500 |
| PARENT POWER LAB INC | $87,500 |
| START AT ZERO | $40,000 |
| CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $29,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $438k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 41% of Kc Action Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 59%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBLAQUE2× · 2020–2022 · $519k · revenue +507% · 32% of their budget
- BPBLAQUE PROMISE PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $433k · revenue +108% · 48% of their budget
- CCCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $113k · revenue +307%
Funded once
- SSSCHOOL SMART KC INCone grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue 0%
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.
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.
We are a nonprofit organization that specializes in codesign research between education technology companies and schools. we match parents, learners and educators with edtech developers to inform, develop, and evaluate the next generation…
In a world where zip codes can predict outcomes, prep-kc ignites potential by bringing educators and industry professionals together to build paths to meaningful careers for students across the heart of bistate kansas city.
To accelerate growth in the region's prosperity and quality of life for all by strategically deploying the personal and corporate resources, influence and expertise of the region's business and civic leaders.
The Education Equity Center of St. Louis advances a regional approach to achieving full racial equity in education by building anti-racist capacity towards systems level practices and policy changes.
Supporting early childhood education programs in kansas with a parent education component.
To support and enhance the educational experience of students.
To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…
To cultivate a thriving and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kansas City.
The vision of the kcee is that every k-12 student in kansas will become economically and financially literate. in order to reach as many students as possible, the mission of the kcee is to equip teachers to teach economics and personal…
To identify and cultivate future generations for civic engagement from the ranks of kansas city's up-and-coming business and community professionals and support the civic council of greater kansas city by focusing on the region's most…
How this is measured
8 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kc Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kc Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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