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Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$28M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$63
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$34MHealth$21MEducation$17MArts & Culture$13MEmployment$6.5MHuman Services$4.9MHousing & Shelter$2.6MCommunity Improvement$1.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $63 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $27,979,990 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,979,927 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$63
Median grant
1
States reached
$651M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PASSTHROUGH ACTIVITY$63
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%EMPOWER MISSOURI: $100 → 10%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $250k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $30k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $30k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $30k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $30k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $30k → 5%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $50k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $50k → 16%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $50k → 15%High Aspirations: $25k → 15%High Aspirations: $15k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $10k → 15%High Aspirations: $400 → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $340k → 5%Jewish Family Services: $150k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 5%Jewish Family Services: $25k → 5%Jewish Family Services: $25k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 5%Jewish Family Services: $3k → 5%Jewish Family Services: $2k → 5%Jewish Family Services: $500 → 5%United Inner City Services: $38k → 15%United Inner City Services: $38k → 15%Credit & Homeownership Empowerment Serv: $275k → 15%Credit & Homeownership Empowerment Services: $200k → 15%Reconciliation Services: $75k → 15%CREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES: $71k → 15%Credit & Homeownership Empowerment Services: $71k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$58M · 102 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

102 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 101 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
114

Total granted

$58M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+44%

Still filing today

70%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • SL
    Saint Lukes Foundation
    4× · 2019–2022 · $9.9M · revenue +24%
  • TN
    THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $7.6M · revenue +91%
  • UF
    UMKC FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $4.4M · revenue +278%

Funded once

  • HW
    Henry W Bloch School of Management Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $4.0M
  • BA
    Bloch Art Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $1.6M
  • SM
    SL Marion Bloch Neuroscience Inst Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
2
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.

3
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
4
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

5
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
6
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
7
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

8
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
9
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education
10
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
11
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
12
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Education & Skills Pr…Construction Industry Assoc…Youth Development Organizat…International Child WelfareCharter Schools and Academi…Performing Arts Organizatio…Pet Rescue and AdoptionKansas City Economic Develo…Christian Ministry Organiza…Professional Association Ne…Healthcare Access Foundatio…Regional Business ChambersYouth Sports ProgramsAffordable Senior HousingHigher Education SupportFamily Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr13%9%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr25%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr13%3%5–10yr16%12%10–20yr16%4%20–35yr11%46%35–55yr25%36%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/137
the rest of the field
13%
1,081/8,287

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.

04the grantee network

129 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 129 of the 219 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/129
Grantees still filing
101/129
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation — $28,925,050 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Fou…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $1,286,665 · Philanthropy+3 more — $223,000 · PhilanthropyHenry W Bloch School of Management Fund at the Gr — $6,380,000 · OtherHenry W Bloch School of Management…Henry W Bloch School of Management Fund — $4,000,000 · OtherHenry W Bloch School of Management…SAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $3,627,900 · OtherSAINT LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $1,715,040 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansas City …Bloch Art Fund — $1,600,000 · OtherJewish Federation of Greater KC — $1,387,832 · OtherMARC Comm Serv Corp — $1,260,000 · Other+115 more — $11,710,589 · Other+115 moreSaint Lukes Foundation — $9,905,450 · HealthSaint Lukes Fou…The Children's Mercy Hospital — $2,975,500 · HealthThe Children's …+9 more — $1,678,000 · Health+9 moreTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $7,551,951 · Arts & CultureTHE NELSON GA…COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND — $1,192,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY CAP…UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $770,970 · Arts & CultureUNION STATION…NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $525,200 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $2,057,864 · Arts & Culture+14 moreUMKC FOUNDATION — $4,399,762 · EducationUMKC FOUND…Donnelly College — $1,117,000 · EducationDonnelly C…HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY — $640,000 · EducationHYMAN BRAN…THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $509,540 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $480,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $400,000 · EducationMetropolitan Community College Foundation — $400,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $348,500 · Education+18 more — $1,518,750 · Education+18 moreJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $1,046,000 · Human ServicesCREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES — $1,042,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE SHALOM INC — $430,000 · Human ServicesHEALING HOUSE INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $150,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesPETES GARDEN — $125,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $125,000 · Human Services+5 more — $425,400 · Human ServicesKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $600,000 · Housing & ShelterOIKOS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $375,000 · Housing & ShelterRESTART INC — $275,500 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $49,650 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$30,434,715Other$31,681,361Health$14,558,950Arts & Culture$12,097,985Education$9,813,552Human Services$3,743,400Housing & Shelter$1,300,150

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $28,925,050 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation — $9,905,450 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $7,551,951 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION — $4,399,762 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $2,975,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $1,715,040 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $1,286,665 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND — $1,192,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetDonnelly College — $1,117,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $1,046,000 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetCREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES — $1,042,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $770,970 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY — $640,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $600,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $525,200 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $509,540 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $480,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY — $450,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC — $430,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $400,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetMetropolitan Community College Foundation — $400,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetOIKOS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $375,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetJerusalem Farm — $355,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS — $350,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC — $350,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS — $350,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $348,500 over 2y, 39% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $300,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $277,648 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetRESTART INC — $275,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC — $274,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $253,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHEALING HOUSE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES — $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE — $250,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWelcome House Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC — $250,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $236,950 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC — $205,256 over 2y, 22% of budgetCROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS — $202,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $200,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $191,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER INCORPORATED — $175,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY — $155,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $151,300 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $150,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget
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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
  • Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation
  • Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
  • Who funds COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND
  • Who funds Donnelly College
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds CREDIT & HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES
  • Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC
  • Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
  • Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
  • Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC
  • Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY
  • Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY
  • Who funds Metropolitan Community College Foundation
  • Who funds OIKOS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
  • Who funds Jerusalem Farm
  • Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS
  • Who funds TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC
  • Who funds TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO115.2× affinity88 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 H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Sunderland Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · The Sherman Family 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 Marion and Henry Bloch 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
44report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 219 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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