· Private foundation
Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
75% of Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $50k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARK UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| POMONA COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| PARK UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC | $5,000 |
| THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE | $2,382 |
| THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE | $2,000 |
| THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE | $2,000 |
| CHABAD ON CAMPUS AT CLAREMONT | $1,800 |
| FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC | $1,234 |
| NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $172 |
| PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC | $70 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 25% of Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
POMONA COLLEGE6× · 2018–2024 · $45k · revenue +109%- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC4× · 2018–2025 · $19k · revenue +17%
- TNTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2024 · $422 · revenue +56%
Funded once
- KCKansas City Hospice Incone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +23%
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGHone grant, 2022 · $3k
- BHBENILDE HALLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +31%
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.
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.
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.
Its mission is to perform great performances for greater audiences. the kansas city symphony will achieve this mission by: - developing an uncompromising performance standard. - advancing the profile and value of the orchestra locally,…
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BENILDE HALL ↗
- Who funds HALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST GENERATION INVESTORS ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR KANSAS CITY INC ↗
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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Linda T Watson Family Foundation · Hartley Family Foundation · R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 · William T Kemper Charitable Trust 10015200 · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence D Starr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: 40% of income from government
How this is measured
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