· Private foundation
N W Dible Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RABBIT HOLE KC | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS - MULTISTAGES | $3,000 |
| I-70 REVIEW ELLEN SAZZMAN | $3,000 |
| BATESVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $1,500 |
| BEYOND BAROQUE FOUNDATION | $1,250 |
| CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION | $1,010 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE WRITERS PLACE | $1,000 |
| MUSICIANS INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| MUSEUM OF KANSAS CITY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PACIFIC RESIDENT THEATRE | $1,000 |
| LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN | $1,000 |
| KC MELTING POT THEATRE | $750 |
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 (FY25–25, $10) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TRTHE RABBIT HOLE KC5× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +111%
- BBBeyond Baroque Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +11%
- BRBLACK REPERTORY THEATRE OF KANSAS CITY3× · 2023–2025 · $2k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- MCMIDWEST CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS - HELICON NINEone grant, 2024 · $7k
- VLVILIA LLCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IRI-70 REVIEW INCone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
Via art fund is a nonprofit organization where art patrons join forces as partners in a new model of philanthropy to support visionary initiatives in art.
Graywolf press publishes risk-taking, visionary writers who transform culture through literature. when writers are free to do their most ambitious work, their books serve as portals to new possibilities and enable deeper understanding…
The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Founded in 1780, the american academy of arts and sciences honors excellence and convenes leaders from every field of human endeavor to examine new ideas, address issues of importance to the nation and the world, and work together "to…
To advocate for and support living composers
Awp provides support, advocacy, resources, and community to writers, college & university creative writing programs, and writing organizations.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 63 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 THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds Beyond Baroque Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEAGUE OF PROFESSIONAL THEATRE WOMEN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK REPERTORY THEATRE OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE A CHILD'S HEART FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR THE LITERARY ARTS ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization N W Dible Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from N W Dible Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Diabetes Foundation Inc: 31% of income from government
How this is measured
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