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Lawrence a and Joan S Weiner Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Lawrence a and Joan S Weiner Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$85kReligion$52kHealth$47kEducation$38kRecreation & Sports$23kArts & Culture$4kPhilanthropy$3kEmployment$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$1,800
Median grant
2
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI & KANSAS: $180 → 11%HEALING HOUSE INC: $500 → 15%VILLAGE SHALOM: $1k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $680 → 5%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$207k · 11 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +98% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$207k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+6%

Still filing today

64%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyReligionOther
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

  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $71k · revenue +98%
  • AK
    AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation
    7× · 2019–2025 · $38k · revenue +51%
  • GK
    GREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +16%
  • KE
    KU ENDOWMENT
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • JV
    JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
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2
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
3
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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4
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

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…

Philanthropy
5
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
6
Greater Kansas City Sports Commission

Focus and organize community support for the sporting events the city enjoys and facilitate the acquisition of additional sporting events.

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7
Jefferson Regional Foundation

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…

Health
8
Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
9
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
10
Bionexus Kc

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…

Science & Tech
11
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
12
Kansas City Country Club

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; 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.
04the grantee network

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BETH TORAH INC: $50,605 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH TORAH INCJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $12,500 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESIndividual grant recipient: $4,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+10 more: $8,252 · Other+10 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $71,220 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREAT…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $2,500 · PhilanthropyAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $38,100 · HealthAdventHealth Kansas …American Heart Association Inc: $3,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Assoc…Small Changes Big Shifts Co: $2,720 · HealthSmall Changes Big Sh…The Children's Mercy Hospital: $1,800 · HealthBLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,900 · EducationBLUE VALLEY EDUC…+3 more: $1,030 · EducationGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $22,750 · Recreation & SportsGREATER K…HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $1,800 · Arts & CultureLEEDY FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureMISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $150 · Arts & CultureVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $1,680 · Human ServicesHEALING HOUSE INC: $500 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $180 · Human Services
Other$76,107Philanthropy$73,720Health$46,120Education$36,930Recreation & Sports$22,750Arts & Culture$2,450Human Services$2,360

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $71,220 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $38,100 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $35,900 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER KANSAS CITY SPORTS FOUNDATION: $22,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmall Changes Big Shifts Co: $2,720 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $1,680 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEEDY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetONE GOOD MEAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEVENDAYS INC: $468 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Jewish Community Foun…V & H Charitable Foun…Marion and Henry Bloc…Nerman Family Foundat…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…The Sunderland Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Lowenstein Family Sup…Stanley J Bushman Sup…Barton P & Mary D Coh…Arvin Gottlieb Charit…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO25.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lawrence a and Joan S Weiner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence a and Joan S Weiner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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