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Nerman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE | $110,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| PARK UNIVERSITY ICM | $10,000 |
| JEROME NERMAN UTA SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN PUBLIC SQUARE AT JEWELL | $8,000 |
| KEHILATH ISRAEL SYNAGOGUE | $7,900 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE | $1,200 |
| HNC LIVING FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF JOHNSON COUNTY | $1,000 |
| THE ARTS ENGAGEMENT FOUNDATION OF KC | $1,000 |
| HOUSTON CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY CRAFT | $500 |
| MT CARMEL CEMETERY FUND | $500 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $100 |
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 (FY17–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 62% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- THTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS6× · 2019–2024 · $519k · revenue +9%
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $135k · revenue +15%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY3× · 2018–2023 · $96k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $29k
- EAENGLEWOOD ARTSone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +4%
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MOone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -65%
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.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
The kentucky college of art and design opens the door to a creative and productive life through an undergraduate education in the contemporary arts.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
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.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is The Avi Chai Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 83 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 THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FARMER'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF JOHNSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD ARTS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MO ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds ARTCOUNCIL INC DBA ARTADIA ↗
- Who funds Arts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City ↗
- Who funds RIGHTFULLY SEWN INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ZETA BETA TAU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds EMERALD MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD 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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Francis Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · The H & R Block Foundation · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · The Seidler 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 Nerman Family Foundation 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.
- Grounds for Sculpture Inc — 1% of income from government
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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