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Mid America Assistance Coalition
The mission of the MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION, maac, is to improve the lives of economically vulnerable populations through innovative client services, public policy advocacy, and by developing information systems that help other assistance organizations serve clients more efficiently and comprehensively.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
- $250k+2 grants · $6.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE LIHEAP | $6,159,019 |
| EVERGY KANSAS CENTRAL INC | $436,554 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $41,184 |
| BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER INC | $15,243 |
| GREATER KC LINC INC | $14,649 |
| METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY | $13,238 |
| REDEMPTORIST CENTER | $7,451 |
| GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $7,413 |
| COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE COUNCIL | $7,358 |
| RECONCILIATION SERVICES | $6,878 |
| GUADALUPE CENTERS INC | $6,484 |
| COUNTY OF JOHNSON (KANSAS) | $6,411 |
| NORTHLAND ASSISTANCE CENTER | $5,917 |
| LEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES | $5,768 |
| MOUND CITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,705 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against -35% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $995 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
- GKGREATER KC LINC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +134%
- MLMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY9× · 2017–2025 · $233k · revenue +120%
- BSBishop Sullivan Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $157k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -35%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is In As Much Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 GREATER KC LINC INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Bishop Sullivan Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds LEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER KANSAS CITY HOUSING INFORMATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTHLAND ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA INDIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN CENTER OF EXCELSIOR SPRINGS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RAYTOWN EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds IN AS MUCH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Judge C F Moulton Christmas Poor Fund · Health Forward Foundation · Giving the Basics Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland 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 Mid America Assistance Coalition 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.
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