· Private foundation
Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MESNER PUPPET THEATER | $15,000 |
| MID-AMERICA ARTS ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| THE COTERIE THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERDS CENTER OF KANSAS CITY | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSING OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SHERWOOD AUTISM CENTER | $10,000 |
| MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC | $7,500 |
| KANSAS CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $7,500 |
| KANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC | $7,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| THEATRE YOUNG AMERICA INC | $7,500 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF YATES BRANCH INC | $7,500 |
| YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSN OF KANSAS CITY | $7,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 9 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- KCKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +91%
- MPMESNER PUPPET THEATER6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +47%
- MTMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $43k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- KMKANBE'S MARKETSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +99%
- RSREDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2024 · $15k
- BNBETHEL NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to promoting the rich culture of Kansas City through performance and education. We strive to be a leading voice, ensuring that Kansas City's influential jazz tradition continues to thrive and…
The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…
Our mission is to attract diverse people, nuture artists, and strengthen kansas city economically by producing cultural, education, accessible, and affordable events that connect audiences, artists, businesses, and civic organizations. the…
To bring the best of the performing arts to the Kansas City community.
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,…
Connect2Culture strives to enrich the region by "igniting a passion for the arts, culture, and entertainment" as Joplin's community arts agency and a presenter of exceptional performances. See Schedule O for more information.
Spire Chamber Ensemble inspires educates and enriches the Kansas City metropolitan community through the transformational power of choral music performed at the highest artistic level.
To inspire, entertain and open minds by creating transformative theatre experiences for all.
The mission of the arts council of metropolitan kansas city (dba artskc - regional arts council) is to advance lives through the arts. it does this through key initiatives that support our work: we bring together people, resources and…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 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 — 0.0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 53 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 KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MESNER PUPPET THEATER ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds STW CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COTERIE INC ↗
- Who funds International Relations Council ↗
- Who funds Arts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City ↗
- Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND MENS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds NURTURE KC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds Heartland Chamber Music LTD ↗
- Who funds City In Motion Dance Theater City In Motion Dance Theater ↗
- Who funds PCS FOR PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY JAZZ ALIVE ↗
- Who funds THE FARMER'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds Global One Urban Farming ↗
- Who funds Center for Conflict Resolution ↗
- Who funds CHWC INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RIGHTFULLY SEWN INC ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
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 · 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
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 Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitable 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.
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.