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Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$169k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 20
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$3.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving21$169k43%
FY202418$154k22%
FY202320$154k45%
FY202219$179k21%
FY202117$143k82%
FY202013$145kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$586kFood & Nutrition$65kEducation$58kHealth$58kHuman Services$44kHousing & Shelter$30kInternational$28kYouth Development$24kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKansas City Ballet Association: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMesner Puppet Theater: $70,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetJohnson County Library Foundation: $42,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetMusical Theater Heritage Inc: $42,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetKansas City Chamber Orchestra Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetArts Council of Johnson County: $35,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetStw Charities Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetThe Coterie Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Relations Council: $27,500 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMid-America Arts Alliance: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetArts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City: $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHeartland Mens Chorus: $22,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetKanbe's Markets: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCity In Motion Dance Theater City In Motion Dance Theater: $15,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNurture Kc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHeartland Chamber Music LTD: $15,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetKansas City Young Audiences Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetPcs for People: $13,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStarlight Theatre Association of Kansas City Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChwc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHealing House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRightfully Sewn Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGlobal One Urban Farming: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetThe Farmer's House Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKauffman Center for the Performing Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Conflict Resolution: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGateway of Hope Ministries: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetKansas City Jazz Alive: $10,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetThe Youth Symphony Association: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRotary Club Youth Camp Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBach Aria Soloists Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAmerican Jazz Museum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInterurban Arthouse: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPets for Life Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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 Community FoundationMO50× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Hall Family Foundation · Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation

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.

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About Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable

How much does Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable give?
Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable reported 21 grants totaling $169,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Food & Nutrition (7%), Education (6%).
Who are Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Kansas City Ballet Association ($75k), Mesner Puppet Theater ($70k), Johnson County Library Foundation ($43k).
Does Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Francis Family Foundation, Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation.
Where is Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable based?
Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable is based in TX.

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 53 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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