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Padgett Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$122k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$147kArts & Culture$104kHealth$77kInternational$40kHuman Services$39kReligion$34kMembership Benefit$21kHousing & Shelter$21kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBERTY MEMORIAL ASSOC$8,000
PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL$5,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER KC$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$5,000
SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL$5,000
WILLIAMS COLLEGE ENDOWMENT$4,500
ELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETY$4,000
UMKC SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ENDOWMENT$4,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$4,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF OKC$4,000
WILLOWS PREGNANCY SUPPORT$4,000
EMORY UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF GIFTS$3,500
ST JOHN NEPOMUK CHURCH$3,500
KU ENDOWMENT$3,500
CITY UNION MISSION$3,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $300 → 16%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $200 → 16%ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION: $200 → 16%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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$538k · 106 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

106 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

106
24

Total granted

$538k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+41%

Still filing today

45%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalReligionAnimalsOther

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

  • NW
    NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +64%
  • PH
    PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +23%
  • UW
    United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • EH
    EAST HIGH CLAY CLUB
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • TM
    TRUMAN MED CENTER CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • RF
    REACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +11%

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
Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc

The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…

Arts & Culture
2
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

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…

Philanthropy
3
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of World Treasures Inc

To own and operate a museum, curating antiques and collectibles, that provides a gateway to the past that educates, entertains, and inspires lifelong learning

Arts & Culture
5
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
6
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

7
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
8
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
9
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

11
Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

12
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri 4-H Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth CampsIndependent K-12 SchoolsMilitary Veterans SupportSchool District FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 47 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%6%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr16%36%35–55yr24%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%1%10–20yr15%13%20–35yr16%40%35–55yr24%47%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,432

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

54 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 132 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
47/54
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COUNTRY CLUB CHRISTIAN CHURCH — $25,000 · OtherCOUNTRY CLUB CHRISTIAN CHURCHSALVATION ARMY — $20,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $20,000 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansas City IncELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETY — $18,550 · OtherELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETYWILLIAMS COLLEGE ENDOWMENT — $14,000 · OtherWESTMINSTER COLLEGE - DEVELOPMENT — $12,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC — $12,000 · OtherEMORY UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF GIFTS — $12,000 · OtherUMKC SCHOOL OF MEDICINE ENDOWMENT — $11,100 · OtherCHESTER LEWIS ALTERNATIVE HS — $11,000 · OtherKU HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT ENDOWMENT — $10,500 · Other+87 more — $147,078 · Other+87 morePEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $24,000 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL S…SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL — $14,500 · EducationSHATTUCK-ST MAR…Williams College — $12,000 · EducationWilliams Colleg…Oakdale School Foundation — $9,500 · EducationOakdale School …Library Endowment Trust — $5,900 · EducationLibrary Endowme…Friends of the Metropolitan Library System in Oklahoma County — $5,050 · EducationFriends of the …+3 more — $3,700 · EducationNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $39,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI …WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureWILLOW PREGNA…KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $6,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY S…NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CIVIL WAR MEDICINE I — $3,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $7,450 · Arts & Culture+8 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SAN…RESURGE INTERNATIONAL — $18,000 · InternationalRESURGE INTE…Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles — $12,000 · InternationalAustin Plast…OPERATION SMILE INC — $9,500 · InternationalOPERATION SM…+1 more — $1,500 · InternationalTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $8,600 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association — $5,350 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,200 · HealthMUCOLIPIDOSIS TYPE IV FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $900 · Health+1 more — $200 · HealthCity Union Mission — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $7,300 · Food & Nutrition
Other$314,228Education$74,650Arts & Culture$65,950International$61,000Health$20,750Housing & Shelter$15,000Food & Nutrition$7,300

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $39,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETY — $18,550 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetRESURGE INTERNATIONAL — $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCity Union Mission — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL — $14,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles — $12,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC — $10,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC — $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOakdale School Foundation — $9,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $8,600 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $7,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLibrary Endowment Trust — $5,900 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association — $5,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Metropolitan Library System in Oklahoma County — $5,050 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION — $4,256 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF CIVIL WAR MEDICINE I — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWILSONS CREEK NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD FOUNDATION — $1,800 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUNDATION — $1,600 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREACH FOR EXCELLENCE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUCOLIPIDOSIS TYPE IV FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $1,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISHKC — $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $1,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBINGHAM WAGGONER HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,100 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC — $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC — $1,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPilgrim Center Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK — $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC — $850 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE — $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANNA'S HOUSE FOUNDATION — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALPHAPOINTE — $700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLinda Hall Library Foundation — $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKansas State Historical Society Inc — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER SCHOOL — $450 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
  • Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds ELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETY
  • Who funds RESURGE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds City Union Mission
  • Who funds SHATTUCK-ST MARY'S SCHOOL
  • Who funds Austin Plastic Surgery Foundation Austin Smiles
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF OKLAHOMA CITY INC
  • Who funds Williams College
  • Who funds WILLOW PREGNANCY SUPPORT INC
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC
  • Who funds Oakdale School Foundation
  • Who funds TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds KIDS ACROSS AMERICA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
  • Who funds Library Endowment Trust
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association
  • Who funds Friends of the Metropolitan Library System in Oklahoma County
  • Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION 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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas CityKS29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · J B Reynolds 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 Padgett 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City Inc1% of income from government
  • Williams College0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 132 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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