· Private foundation
Lawrence a and Joan S Weiner Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH TORAH | $10,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,700 |
| BLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL | $1,800 |
| VILLAGE SHALOM | $1,000 |
| VISIT KC FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ONE GOOD MEAL | $500 |
| BIG SHIFTS FOUNDATION | $500 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $300 |
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 (FY21–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +51% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY7× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +49%
- AKAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation7× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +51%
- GKGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +163%
Funded once
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +16%
- HIHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- JVJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
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.
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.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Focus and organize community support for the sporting events the city enjoys and facilitate the acquisition of additional sporting events.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Leedy Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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. 21 of the 30 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Small Changes Big Shifts Co ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ONE GOOD MEAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEEDY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SEVENDAYS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
- Who funds BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · V & H Charitable Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Nerman Family Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundation · Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundation · Barton P & Mary D Cohen Charitable 1 · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600
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 Lawrence a and Joan S Weiner Foundation 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.