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Kearney Wornall Foundation 10017900

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$791k
Granted FY2024still arriving
44
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Education$1.6MAnimals$850kEnvironment$450kArts & Culture$435kHuman Services$228kHealth$188kYouth Development$187kEmployment$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $455k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $275k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MSU DENVER FOUNDATION INC$75,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD$50,000
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS$50,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$50,000
MIZEL INSTITUTE$35,000
WORNALL-MAJOR HOUSE MUSEUMS INC$30,000
LYRIC OPERA OF$25,000
EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS$25,000
ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION SHAWNEE MISSION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST MARY$25,000
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
DOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS$25,000
VALLEY HOPE FOUNDATION$20,000
CORNERSTONES OF CARE$20,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMIT FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $25k → 17%SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 9%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $25k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $25k → 17%AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS: $25k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $15k → 15%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $10k → 15%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $10k → 15%EPEC INC: $10k → 15%HOPE CENTER: $10k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $20k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $10k → 15%HARRY S TRUMAN CHILDRENS NEUROLOGICAL: $8k → 15%MOTHERS REFUGE: $5k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $25k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $10k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $5k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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NY
CO
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KS
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 16 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
40

Total granted

$3.0M
$845k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+19%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $511k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther

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

  • MS
    METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $511k · revenue +28%
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Inc
    2× · 2018–2024 · $400k · revenue +97%
  • MC
    Metropolitan Community College Foundation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $265k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • ST
    STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • VO
    VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $75k
  • MS
    MISSOURI STATE PARKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +113%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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3
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
4
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…

Education
5
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
6
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
7
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Inc

The mission of the kauffman school is to prepare students to excel academically, graduate from college and apply their unique talents in the world to create economically independent and personally fulfilling lives.

Education
8
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement
9
Council Apartments Inc

Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…

Housing & Shelter
10
Missouri Partnership

In its role as the principal business recruitment and marketing organization for missouri, the missouri partnership attracts new jobs and business investments to the state through collaborative efforts with other state and local economic…

Community Improvement
11
Full Employment Council Inc

The full employment council is a business-led, private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to obtain public and private sector employment for the unemployed and underemployed residents of the greater kansas city area.

Crime & Legal
12
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/a Mattie Rhodes Center and the most unlike its peers is Theres Just Something About Kansas City Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/66
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,499

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 92 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
38/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DUCKS UNLIMITED — $850,000 · OtherDUCKS UNLIMITEDMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSTIY — $371,429 · OtherMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSTIYSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KC — $100,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA — $75,000 · Other+40 more — $757,076 · Other+40 moreMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC — $510,714 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSIT…Metropolitan Community College Foundation — $265,000 · EducationMetropolitan Community Colle…PARK UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationPARK UNIVERSITYALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $75,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCA…COLORADO UPLIFT INC — $50,000 · Education+4 more — $90,000 · Education+4 moreDucks Unlimited Inc — $400,000 · EnvironmentDucks Unlim…MISSOURI STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI ST…AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS — $100,000 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION — $20,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $15,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCamp Encourage — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMS — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE AIDAN PROJECT — $10,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Human Services+4 more — $23,000 · Human ServicesST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTheres Just Something About Kansas City Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $15,000 · Arts & CultureENGLEWOOD ARTS — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $18,500 · Arts & CultureAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation — $30,000 · HealthIMMANUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $25,000 · HealthRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $25,000 · HealthMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $10,000 · HealthMADDIES MISSION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · HealthSaint Lukes Foundation — $5,000 · HealthGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $50,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,153,505Education$1,110,714Environment$450,000Human Services$278,000Arts & Culture$228,500Health$130,000Philanthropy$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC — $510,714 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $400,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMetropolitan Community College Foundation — $265,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetPARK UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS — $100,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI STATE PARKS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO UPLIFT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLION GLOBAL FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetIMMANUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRONTIER SCHOOLS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FUND — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTheres Just Something About Kansas City Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetRESTORE SGF INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE SPRINGS RESCUE MISSION — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE NETWORK OF RAYTOWN — $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND MENS CHORUS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Encourage — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENGLEWOOD ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AIDAN PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMADDIES MISSION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPAWSPERITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…The Sunderland Founda…Geraldine and R a Bar…E Kemper Carter & Ann…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Sherman Family Fo…The H & R Block Found…R a Long Foundation 6…The Kansas City Royal…Health Forward Founda…William T Kemper Foun…Jewish Community Foun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO63.3× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Geraldine and R a Barrows Foundation 10013700 · E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City

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 Kearney Wornall Foundation 10017900 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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