· Private foundation
Kenneth L & Eva S Smith Foundation Thomas K Jones Trustee
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $285k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC | $160,000 |
| KU ENDOWMENT - KU CANCER CENTER | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT OF PHILANTHROPY | $50,000 |
| LAKEMARY CENTER ENDOWMENT | $35,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KC PET PROJECT | $25,000 |
| THE JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY - FIRST TEE | $25,000 |
| KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION SERVING KS & WEST MO | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SASONE DAF JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $20,000 |
| GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY SERVICES CENTER INC - THE CHILDRENS PLACE | $10,000 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE DEVELOPMENT DEPT | $10,000 |
| ERIN ANDRA WILSON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +35% since the first grant, against -46% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +23%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +67%
- JGJUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- WIWONDERSCOPE INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -46%
- NKNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF KS & WEST MO INCone grant, 2017 · $20k
- SLST LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
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.
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.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
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…
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
Children's physicians delivers the highest quality pediatric primary care while supporting education and research.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
It is the mission of kvc hospitals to enrich children's lives by providing comprehensive and compassionate trauma-informed psychiatric care, behavioral healthcare, education and medical services.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstones of Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Erin Andra Wilson Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Kenneth L & Eva S Smith Foundation Thomas K Jones Trustee 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.