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Mazuma Credit Union

Making kansas city a better place to live, work and bank by providing lending, savings and financial services to our membership.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$100kHousing & Shelter$72kYouth Development$61kHuman Services$47kEducation$35kHealth$35kArts & Culture$30kCommunity Improvement$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $67,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $70,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,000 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$985M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS INC$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$10,000
KANSAS CITY HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE$10,000
UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES$10,000
FIRST ACT THEATRE ARTS$10,000
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT$10,000
COMMUNITY LINC$7,000
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 (FY19–24, $52k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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.

area typical 8%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $10k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $10k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $7k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $10k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $5k → 15%RECONCILLIATION SERVICES: $10k → 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$211k · 10 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$211k
$116k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+49%

Still filing today

90%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • CL
    COMMUNITY LINC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +45%
  • RI
    RESTART INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +4%
  • HI
    HOPEKIDS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • RB
    ROSE BROOKS CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +49%
  • RS
    RECONCILIATION SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +37%

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
Kansas City Community Land Trust

Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.

Housing & Shelter
2
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

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

Arts & Culture
3
Mo Kan 2020 Vision Inc

The mission of 20/20 leadership is to provide high school students unique experiential learning opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom, develop resilient leaders, and build stronger communities.

Youth Development
4
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
5
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
6
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
7
Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment
8
Kansas City Urban Youth Academy Inc

To provide kansas city youth with the opportunity to develop into high character, productive members of society and learn the skills of baseball.

Recreation & Sports
9
Great Jobs Kc Inc

The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.

Education
10
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
11
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
12
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Community Gardens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connecting for Good. 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 39 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr11%4%5–10yr15%15%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr11%44%35–55yr30%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr11%5%5–10yr15%8%10–20yr14%11%20–35yr11%56%35–55yr30%20%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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%0/30
the rest of the field
13%
698/5,308

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

28 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. 28 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
17/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Comm…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $17,300 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHR…UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $15,100 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CI…RECONCILIATION SERVICES — $10,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION …Kansas City Hospice Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesKansas City Hos…HILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $5,100 · Human ServicesHILLCREST MINIS…HOPE IGNITES — $5,000 · Human ServicesHOPE IGNITESLITERACY KANSAS CITY — $15,100 · OtherLITERACY KANSAS CITYCONNECTING FOR GOOD — $15,000 · OtherCONNECTING FOR GOODTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY — $10,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSP…ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient — $5,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST — $5,000 · OtherHOPEKIDS INC — $15,100 · OtherHOPEKIDS INCKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC — $15,100 · OtherKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS…VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $10,000 · OtherVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECTWONDERSCOPE INC — $10,000 · OtherWONDERSCOPE INCTHE PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $10,000 · OtherTHE PARKS AND RECREATION FOUN…+1 more — $250 · OtherCOMMUNITY LINC — $37,100 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINCRESTART INC — $15,100 · Housing & ShelterRESTART INCCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $5,100 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR DEV…BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $45,700 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB O…Bridge Leadership Academy — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBridge Le…FIRST ACT THEATRE ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureFIRST ACT…SUMMIT ART INC — $5,100 · Arts & CultureSUMMIT AR…METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $5,100 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLI…THE YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE YOUTH…KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CI…Exceeds Expectations Inc — $20,000 · Community ImprovementIVANHOE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$100,000Human Services$62,500Other$120,550Housing & Shelter$57,300Youth Development$45,700Arts & Culture$40,200Community Improvement$30,000

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 — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $45,700 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC — $37,100 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetExceeds Expectations Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $17,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESTART INC — $15,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC — $15,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $15,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY — $15,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC — $15,100 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCONNECTING FOR GOOD — $15,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBridge Leadership Academy — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetIVANHOE NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFIRST ACT THEATRE ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $5,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $5,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IGNITES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA HEALTH & WELFARE BENEFIT PLAN TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 C…United Way of Greater…Oppenstein Brothers F…Health Forward Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Curry Family Foun…The Kansas City Royal…William T Kemper Foun…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…R a Long Foundation 6…Marion and Henry Bloc…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO37.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Curry Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Marion and Henry Bloch 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 Mazuma Credit Union 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    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 31 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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