· Public charity
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $5.8M · revenue +105%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY9× · 2017–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +114%
- VSVILLAGE SHALOM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- DIDETERMINATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue 0% · 46% of their budget
- CCCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUNDone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospitalone 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.
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.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
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…
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
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…
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
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
The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.
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…
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
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.
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