· Private foundation
Linda T Watson Family 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 $10k13 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| MADDIE'S MISSION | $10,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PBS | $5,000 |
| THE FOLLY THEATER | $5,000 |
| THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE | $4,371 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $4,272 |
| KANSAS CITY CHORALE | $3,000 |
| KANSAS CITY HOSPICE | $3,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,600 |
| KEMPER MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| BARSTOW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +38% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK6× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +43%
- KCKANSAS CITY CHORALE6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +51%
- KCKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS5× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- TRTHE RABBIT HOLE KCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +47%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +50%
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.
Connecting our community through live arts experiences that entertain, inspire, and engage
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
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…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
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 preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunflower House Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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 42 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 HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds QUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZON ACADEMY ↗
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 · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Hartley Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Buttonwood Foundation Charitable Tr · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons
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 Linda T Watson Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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