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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.

$2.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$640k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$10MPhilanthropy$2.3MHealth$1.8MEducation$1.5MFood & Nutrition$1.0MReligion$852kHousing & Shelter$759kCrime & Legal$539kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $117k
  • $10k–50k52 grants · $867k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $640k
$10,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS)$640,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$200,000
HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY$169,300
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$167,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$167,500
VILLAGE SHALOM INC$67,500
VILLAGE SHALOM INC$67,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS$57,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS$57,500
KANBE'S MARKETS$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HILLEL FOUNDATION$50,000
MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION$42,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$40,500
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$40,500
CORE INFLUENCER INSTITUTE INC$40,000
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 (FY17–25, $10.6M) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Village Shalom Inc: $190k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $177k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $168k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $163k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $130k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $125k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $68k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $68k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $65k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $65k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $65k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $65k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $65k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $661k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $660k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $642k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $640k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $619k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $329k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $312k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $309k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $309k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $263k → 5%Jewish Community Campus: $155k → 5%Jewish Community Campus: $135k → 5%JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS: $135k → 5%JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS: $122k → 5%JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS: $122k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $120k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $120k → 5%JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS: $115k → 5%Jewish Community Campus: $80k → 5%Jewish Community Campus: $80k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $79k → 5%Jewish Community Campus: $75k → 5%Jewish Community Campus: $75k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $64k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $64k → 5%JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS: $58k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $52k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $52k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $52k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $48k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $46k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $41k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $38k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $38k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $38k → 5%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 121 repeat orgs$487k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

121 repeat relationships: 54 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
25

Total granted

$21M
$262k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+28%

Still filing today

93%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalReligionEducationOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +105%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +114%
  • VS
    VILLAGE SHALOM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • DI
    DETERMINATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0% · 46% of their budget
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +15%
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
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Kc Tenants

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

Civil Rights
3
Freedom House Ministries

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…

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health
7
Greater Kansas City Coalition to End Homelessness

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
9
Kc Common Good Inc

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

Employment
10
Refuge Kc Inc

We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom

Religion
11
Housing Services of Kansas City Inc

The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.

Housing & Shelter
12
Nurture Kc

Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

152 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 152 of the 162 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
148/152
Grantees still filing
109/152
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5,766,639 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $1,576,232 · Human ServicesVILLAGE SHALOM INCJEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC: $1,165,500 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC+41 more: $2,127,703 · Human Services+41 moreJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $2,441,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTE…JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1,800,430 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF G…JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $360,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUND…+2 more: $126,400 · PhilanthropyGAN CHABAD TORAH CENTER INC: $217,500 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $210,000 · OtherRABBINICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $208,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY: $144,850 · OtherCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $177,900 · Other+72 more: $3,378,662 · Other+72 moreHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,455,300 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $62,000 · Education+4 more: $82,350 · EducationSaint Lukes Foundation: $358,000 · HealthCANCER ACTION INC: $72,500 · HealthBLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $70,000 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS INC: $60,000 · HealthCARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD INC: $50,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $45,000 · HealthSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $44,000 · HealthAmethyst Place Inc: $39,850 · HealthTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $35,400 · Health+8 more: $150,145 · HealthHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $398,000 · ReligionNOURISHKC: $88,183 · ReligionVAAD HAKASHRUTH OF KANSAS CITY INC: $80,000 · ReligionBIKE WALK KC: $77,500 · ReligionMOISHE HOUSE: $42,500 · Religion+2 more: $13,248 · ReligionMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $292,500 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO INC: $139,850 · Community ImprovementGENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW: $118,000 · Community ImprovementFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $116,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$10,636,074Philanthropy$4,727,830Other$4,336,912Education$1,599,650Health$924,895Religion$699,431Community Improvement$696,350

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $5,766,639 over 9y, 16% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $2,441,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1,800,430 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $1,576,232 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY: $1,455,300 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY INC: $1,165,500 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $398,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $360,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $358,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $292,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $210,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $177,900 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetAD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $150,000 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY: $144,850 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY: $144,000 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $143,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS: $142,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetEL CENTRO INC: $139,850 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE COTERIE INC: $138,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $131,400 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $130,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $124,900 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetShepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl: $121,900 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetGENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW: $118,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION: $117,050 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $116,500 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $116,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER: $113,900 over 9y, 6.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY: $112,400 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST: $112,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS: $109,900 over 9y, 16% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $105,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetNORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER: $99,900 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC: $98,950 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetNORTHWEST COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $97,900 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $88,350 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetNOURISHKC: $88,183 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $85,200 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetALPHAPOINTE: $83,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $82,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetVAAD HAKASHRUTH OF KANSAS CITY INC: $80,000 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetPALESTINE SENIOR CITIZENS ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $78,400 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetBIKE WALK KC: $77,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHLAND NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $76,400 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCANCER ACTION INC: $72,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA INDIAN CENTER: $72,473 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $70,700 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetBLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $70,000 over 5y, 3.3% 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 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 AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COTERIE INC ↗
  • Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Shepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl ↗
  • Who funds GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 AFTER THE HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NOURISHKC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗

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.

Health Forward FoundationMO159.5× affinity81 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Menorah Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Menorah Heritage 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    59report 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.

    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 162 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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