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Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City

The mission of the arts council of metropolitan kansas city (dba artskc - regional arts council) is to advance lives through the arts.

$325k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0165% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$895kCommunity Improvement$236kEducation$103kPhilanthropy$53kHealth$22kHuman Services$22kCivil Rights$6kOther$708k
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 32 grants below total $176,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $324,987 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $148,987 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.

$5,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC$5,500
18TH & VINE ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION$5,500
ARTSTECH$5,500
KANSAS CITY WOMEN'S CHORUS$5,500
UNICORN THEATER$5,500
KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY$5,500
PLUG INC$5,500
SOCIAL SYMPHONY OF KANSAS CITY$5,500
NO DIVIDE KC$5,500
AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM$5,500
WHIM PRODUCTIONS (FRACTURED ATLAS IS FISCAL SPONSOR)$5,500
STRAY CAT FILM CENTER$5,500
MIDWEST MUSIC FOUNDATION$5,500
KANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION$5,500
INTERURBAN ARTHOUSE$5,500
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EARLYSTART: $6k → 15%EARLYSTART: $6k → 15%EARLYSTART: $6k → 15%18TH & VINE ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 50 repeat orgs$864k to everyone else

50 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
29

Total granted

$1.1M
$825k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+12%

Still filing today

76%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • TN
    THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $82k · revenue +91%
  • JC
    JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $62k · revenue +11%
  • ST
    STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $62k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2022 · $284k
  • A
    ALTCAP
    one grant, 2022 · $118k · revenue -44%
  • MR
    MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL
    one grant, 2022 · $118k

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
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.

Arts & Culture
2
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

To enrich the lives of everyone in our community through extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences. these experiences are provided through programs, customer service, and education.(continued on schedule o)programs: showcase a…

Arts & Culture
3
Kansas City Civic Orchestra

The kansas city civic orchestra, founded in 1959 by a group of local musicians to give themselves and other musicians an opportunity to perform in an orchestra, to provide community enrichment, interaction, and experience with symphonic…

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4
Opera Kansas

Providing innovative works of one act and chamber operas for the public at large, and free or low cost performances for schools and nursing homes.

Arts & Culture
5
Kansas City Jazz Orchestra

The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to promoting the rich culture of Kansas City through performance and education. We strive to be a leading voice, ensuring that Kansas City's influential jazz tradition continues to thrive and…

Arts & Culture
6
Harriman-Jewell Series

To bring the best of the performing arts to the Kansas City community.

Arts & Culture
7
Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City

The mission of the arts council of metropolitan kansas city (dba artskc - regional arts council) is to advance lives through the arts. it does this through key initiatives that support our work: we bring together people, resources and…

Arts & Culture
8
Music-Arts Institute

Music/arts institute, greater kansas city's community school of performing arts, teaches students, young and old alike, to embrace beauty and professionalism in the arts. shaping tomorrow's performers is the task to which the distinguished…

Arts & Culture
9
Kansas City Baroque Consortium

Educational and Musical Arts

Arts & Culture
10
Know Theatre of Cincinnati

Know Theatre is a small professional theatre showcasing voices, new works, & plays that embrace the inherent theatricality of the live experience. Know Theatre seeks to be a place where artists and audiences feel welcome to take artistic…

Arts & Culture
11
Kirkland Center of the Performing Arts Dba Kirkland Performance Center

Kpc provides a gathering place where people come together to express themselves creatively, exchange ideas, share culture and connect with one another

Arts & Culture
12
Union Avenue Opera Theatre

The mission of union avenue opera is to provide professional opportunities for gifted, emerging artists and to offer vibrant and affordable opera experiences in original languages to audiences that reflect the breadth and diversity of the…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stray Cat Film Center. 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 24 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%7%<5yr13%18%5–10yr16%21%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr25%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr13%12%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr25%26%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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%0/87
the rest of the field
13%
1,081/8,337

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

67 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. 67 of the 87 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
40/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $82,129 · Arts & CultureTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATIONSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $61,713 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $54,407 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $40,040 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM — $39,325 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION INC — $38,300 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $36,243 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $35,894 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $33,093 · Arts & Culture+38 more — $473,606 · Arts & Culture+38 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY — $283,800 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHO…MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL — $118,274 · OtherMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCILPRINT SOCIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $31,522 · Other+24 more — $274,040 · Other+24 moreALTCAP — $118,274 · Community ImprovementALTCAPKANSAS CITY REGIONAL DESTINATION DEVELOP MENT FOUNDATION — $118,203 · Community ImprovementKANSAS CITY R…JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $61,966 · EducationWilliam Jewell College — $19,604 · EducationARTSTECH — $16,500 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE — $5,031 · EducationGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $47,323 · PhilanthropyCANDID — $5,500 · PhilanthropyMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $16,500 · HealthWYANDOT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC — $5,500 · HealthUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $16,500 · Human Services18TH AND VINE ARTS FESTIVAL FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Human ServicesLife is Work — $5,500 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$894,750Other$707,636Community Improvement$236,477Education$103,101Philanthropy$52,823Health$22,000Human Services$22,000Civil Rights$5,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALTCAP — $118,274 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY REGIONAL DESTINATION DEVELOP MENT FOUNDATION — $118,203 over 1y, 25% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $82,129 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $61,966 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $61,713 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $54,407 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $47,323 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $40,040 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM — $39,325 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY ARTISTS COALITION INC — $38,300 over 3y, 15% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $36,243 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $35,894 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $33,093 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $29,198 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $23,941 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC — $23,626 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMESNER PUPPET THEATER — $23,417 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSPINNING TREE THEATRE — $23,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetART AS MENTORSHIP INC — $23,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetENSEMBLE IBERICA INC — $23,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC — $22,873 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COTERIE INC — $20,732 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWilliam Jewell College — $19,604 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL — $17,726 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLIBERTY SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $17,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY WOMENS CHORUS — $17,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetMIDWEST MUSIC FOUNDATION INC — $17,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetNo Divide KC — $17,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetSpire Chamber Ensemble — $17,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY PUBLIC THEATRE — $16,500 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetARTSTECH — $16,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKC Clay Guild — $11,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetINTERURBAN ARTHOUSE — $11,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTONELION PUPPET THEATRE — $11,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSTRAY CAT FILM CENTER — $11,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER — $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC — $11,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE BARN PLAYERS INC — $10,593 over 2y, 12% of budgetARTS IN PRISON — $6,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetSUMMIT THEATRE GROUP — $6,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetKANSAS CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC — $6,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP — $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE YOUTH SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

The Francis Family Fo…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…Greater Kansas City C…Richard J Stern Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Jewish Community Foun…The Estelle S and Rob…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…George & Ada Ultch Me…Copaken Family Founda…Hall Family Foundation
The Francis Family FoundationMO81.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Francis Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · George & Ada Ultch Memorial Fund · Copaken Family Foundation · Hall 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 Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City 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%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 87 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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