Kansas · Private foundation
Kirk Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $723k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 43
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $525k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 43
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations Kirk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $525k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $547k | 21% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $644k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $655k | 36% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $679k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City | $555,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Reconciliation Services | $165,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Welcome House Inc | $150,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Johnson County Community College | $125,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Minddrive Incorporated | $125,000 | 5 | 4% |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $110,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures | $100,000 | 4 | 5% |
| YMCA of the Rockies | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas City Art Institute | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Synergy Services Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($938k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kirk Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Francis Family Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
How this is measured
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About Kirk Foundation
- How much does Kirk Foundation give?
- Kirk Foundation reported 43 itemized grants totaling $525,000, out of $722,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 43 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Kirk Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (15%), Education (11%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Kirk Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City ($555k), Reconciliation Services ($165k), Welcome House Inc ($150k).
- Does Kirk Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kirk Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kirk Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, The Francis Family Foundation.
- Where is Kirk Foundation based?
- Kirk Foundation is based in KS.
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