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Menorah Heritage Foundation
The organization is designed to provide support for other charitable organizations as described in sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a) of the internal revenue code.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $775k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $563k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS) | $642,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $293,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $285,000 |
| HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY | $171,000 |
| VILLAGE SHALOM INC | $167,500 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS | $115,000 |
| CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION | $59,700 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HILLEL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EL CENTRO INC | $40,000 |
| CONGREGATION KOL AMI | $35,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY | $30,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU | $26,000 |
| COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND | $25,000 |
| PROSPECT KC | $25,000 |
| SAINT LUKES FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $9.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
117 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +105%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +61%
- VSVILLAGE SHALOM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- DIDETERMINATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0% · 46% of their budget
- WOWildwood Outdoor Education Centergraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +58%
- GNGROUNDWORK NORTHEAST REVITALIZATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +123%
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
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.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
This organization is committed to community networking and coalition building to help eradicate homelessness in the Greater Kansas City metro area. The organization was formed to address the concerns and interests of the homeless…
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Lukes College of Health Sciences. 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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
142 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. 142 of the 149 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE COTERIE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE HARVEST ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl ↗
- Who funds HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds NOURISHKC ↗
- Who funds VAAD HAKASHRUTH OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER 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: Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
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 Menorah Heritage 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.
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.