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Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $63, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,979,990 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,979,927 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.
$63
Median grant
1
States reached
$651M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PASSTHROUGH ACTIVITY$63
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.

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Its 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. Its 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
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58M · 104 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

104 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 103 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
110

Total granted

$58M
$15M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+45%

Still filing today

68%
49%

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
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

  • 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
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

129 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. 129 of the 217 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)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
128/129
Grantees still filing
102/129
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $28,940,050 · 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+114 more: $11,711,089 · Other+114 moreSaint Lukes Foundation: $9,905,450 · HealthSaint Lukes Fou…The Children's Mercy Hospital: $2,980,500 · HealthThe Children's …+10 more: $1,678,500 · Health+10 moreTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $7,553,951 · 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 ServicesPAWSPERITY INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $150,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $125,000 · Human ServicesPETES GARDEN: $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$30,449,715Other$31,681,861Health$14,564,450Arts & Culture$12,099,985Education$9,813,552Human Services$3,743,400Housing & Shelter$1,300,150

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $28,940,050 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $9,905,450 over 4y, 18% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $7,553,951 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $4,399,762 over 6y, 6.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $2,980,500 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 budgetTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS: $350,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $350,000 over 2y, 1.3% 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 budgetSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALING HOUSE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% 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 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 budgetMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $150,000 over 2y, 4.0% 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.

  • 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 TRUST NEIGHBORHOODS ↗
  • Who funds TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC ↗

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…The H & R Block Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…William T Kemper Foun…Oppenstein Brothers F…United Way of Greater…Jewish Community Foun…The Sunderland Founda…Health Forward Founda…The Francis Family Fo…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…The Sherman Family Fo…
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

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 Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% 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, 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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 217 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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