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Kearney Wornall Foundation 10017900 at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
ACE SCHOLARSHIPS$50,000
DUCKS UNLIMITED$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD$50,000
MIZEL INSTITUTE$35,000
WORNALL-MAJOR HOUSE MUSEUMS INC$30,000
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION SHAWNEE MISSION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF ST MARY$25,000
DOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS$25,000
LYRIC OPERA OF$25,000
EVERY CHILD PEDIATRICS$25,000
THERES JUST SOMETHING ABOUT KANSAS CITY$20,000
CORNERSTONES OF CARE$20,000
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:

Its 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 its 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%THE AIDAN PROJECT: $10k → 15%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
CO
NE
MO
VA
KS
TN
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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%
+26%

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
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

  • 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
  • MA
    MINERAL AREA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/a Mattie Rhodes Center; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 92 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
39/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMS: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE AIDAN PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCamp Encourage: $10,000 · Human Services+4 more: $23,000 · Human ServicesWORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $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 · HealthRocky Mountain Youth Medical and Nursing: $25,000 · HealthIMMANUEL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $25,000 · HealthMADDIES MISSION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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

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

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 Kearney Wornall Foundation 10017900 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kearney Wornall Foundation 10017900. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    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 92 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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