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Liberty Hospital Foundation

The LIBERTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION supports patients, individuals, families, and employees in the liberty hospital community by creating, funding, and promoting programs that improve health, education, wellness, and care.

$211k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$3.0MFood & Nutrition$95kEducation$69kHuman Services$65kCrime & Legal$25kYouth Development$22kHousing & Shelter$10kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $83,108, the rows itemized in this filing. The $210,938 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $127,830 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW LIBERTY HOPITAL DISTRICT$61,658
THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC$15,000
WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE$6,450
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Call KC: $15k → 8%Uncover KC: $10k → 15%Synergy Services Inc: $10k → 8%Cornerstones of Care: $10k → 15%Cornerstones of Care: $10k → 15%In as Much Ministry: $10k → 8%In as Much Ministry: $10k → 8%In As Much Ministry: $10k → 8%Earnest Shepherd Memorial Youth Center: $7k → 8%Earnest Shepherd Memorial Youth Center: $6k → 8%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 12 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$3.2M
$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+7%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • IA
    IN AS MUCH MINISTRY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +157%
  • UK
    Uncover KC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +639%
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $25k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • NH
    Northland Health Alliance
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • HK
    HUMAN KIND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • LP
    LIBERTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -14%
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
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Kansas Recovery Network
Health
3
Greater Kc Linc Inc

To provide leadership and influence to engage the kansas city, missouri community as well as the surrounding communities in creating the best service delivery system to support and strengthen children, families and individuals, holding…

Human Services
4
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.

Health
5
Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation

Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…

Education
6
Kansas City Community Land Trust

Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.

Housing & Shelter
7
Kc People's Fund
Philanthropy
8
Missouri Centers for Independent Living
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9
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

—
10
Our House of Greater Kansas City

The Fit House program serves an average of 85 people weekly providing an exercise class to participants in a blighted area where physical activity and exercise programs are limited. Age groups serve range from adolescents to seniors.

Community Improvement
11
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational 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…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Community Gardens Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clay County Clothes Closet. 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

17 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. 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW LIBERTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT: $2,911,069 · OtherNEW LIBERTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT+9 more: $152,931 · OtherIN AS MUCH MINISTRY: $30,000 · Human ServicesUncover KC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $20,000 · Human ServicesEARNEST SHEPHERD MEMORIAL YOUTH CTR: $12,350 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWilliam Jewell College: $45,810 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY: $7,000 · HealthKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentFEED NORTHLAND KIDS INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE COTERIE INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$3,064,000Human Services$97,350Education$60,810Health$27,000Environment$20,000Food & Nutrition$20,000Housing & Shelter$20,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliam Jewell College: $45,810 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIN AS MUCH MINISTRY: $30,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTRI-COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEARNEST SHEPHERD MEMORIAL YOUTH CTR: $12,350 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetLIBERTY PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXCELSIOR SPRINGS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE COTERIE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetClay County Clothes Closet: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY: $7,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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…Commerce Bancshares F…Harry Arnote Charitab…The Daniel G and Wand…The H & R Block Found…R a Long Foundation 6…Health Forward Founda…Harvest Ball SocietyHenry E Wurst Family …Oppenstein Brothers F…Jewish Community Foun…United Way of Greater…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO27.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Harry Arnote Charitable Foundation · The Daniel G and Wanda K O'Dell Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Health Forward Foundation · Harvest Ball Society · Henry E Wurst Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc

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 Liberty Hospital Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Liberty Hospital Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 23 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 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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