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Partners People in Progress Inc

Blessings Abound Thrift Store is a non-profit organization that provides services and funds to those in the Kansas City metropolitan area by selling and redistributing donated merchandise to provide aid to those in need.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$695k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$3.3MFood & Nutrition$1.6MHousing & Shelter$717kInternational$560kEducation$510kReligion$164kCrime & Legal$84kEnvironment$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $214k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $541k
  • $250k+2 grants · $995k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Metropolitan Lutheran Ministries$695,000
Operation Breakthrough$300,000
Lutheran Urban Mission Agency$80,000
HopeBuilders$72,000
Petes Garden$69,460
Flourish Furnishings$60,000
Mission Southside$60,000
The Hub Argentine$50,000
Electro Mundo Technology Services Inc$50,000
The Village Initiative Inc$50,000
Community Services League of Jackson Co$50,000
New Creation Inc$25,000
Amethyst Place$25,000
Johnson County Christmas Bureau$20,000
Lead to Read Inc$20,000
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 (FY20–24, $528k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Adoptions & Beyond: $10k → 5%Learn to Read KC: $25k → 8%Adoption & Beyond: $10k → 5%The Hub Argentine: $50k → 16%I 58 KC Ministries: $10k → 5%Jewish Family Services: $50k → 5%Barefoot Ministry: $10k → 16%Lead to Read Inc: $20k → 15%Jewish Family Services: $50k → 5%Jewish Family Services: $50k → 5%PCs for People Kansas City: $30k → 15%Hope Center Inc: $8k → 15%Dads Against Crime: $10k → 15%Mother's Refuge: $10k → 15%Catholic Charities of Kansas City St Joseph Inc: $15k → 15%Petes Garden: $69k → 15%Pete's Garden: $30k → 15%Pete's Garden: $25k → 15%Lorraine's House: $10k → 5%Angel Clothing Foundation: $6k → 5%Pete's Garden: $14k → 15%Christian Family Service-Midwest: $6k → 5%Rentless Pursuit & Outreach: $10k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 18 repeat orgs$442k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
11

Total granted

$6.7M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+9%

Still filing today

89%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • ML
    METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +140%
  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +23%
  • HH
    HOPEBUILDERS HOME REPAIR INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $342k · revenue +184%

Funded once

  • TD
    THREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -72%
  • PF
    PCS FOR PEOPLE
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +15%
  • CT
    CAMP TOMAH-SHINGA
    one grant, 2021 · $14k

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
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
2
Refuge Kc Inc

We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom

Religion
3
Welcome House Knoxville

Our Mission at Welcome House Knoxville is to share the love of Jesus through the ministries of hospitality and friendship. We provide safe and loving homes for individuals and families in transition to permanent housing.

Housing & Shelter
4
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
5
Carole's House of Hope

Caroles House of Hope provides transitional living for young women and mothers who have aged out of foster care or have become homeless. Our home-like environment, paired with innovative programs and services, encourages self-sufficiency…

Public Benefit
6
Jesus House Inc

Food and shelter to the homeless and groceries/clothing assistance to poverty stricken households

Human Services
7
Hope Faith Ministries Inc

Hope Faith Ministries Inc. works to alleviate homelessness and poverty in the Kansas City area by providing basic necessities and assistance while also providing critical programs to help empower individ

Human Services
8
Cornerstone of Topeka Inc

All of Cornerstone efforts are directed toward interrupting the cycle of homelessness, providing decent, safe, accessible and affordable housing of choice to moderate and low-income households, and revitalizing Topeka neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
9
Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc

Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…

Human Services
10
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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11
Kansas Recovery Network
Health
12
Magdalene House Okc Inc

Assisting women who have experienced abuse, addiction and/or incarceration to rebuild their lives by providing a home for up to two years as they pursue sobriety, health and financial independence

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Johnson County Interfaith Justice Organization Jcijo 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 backsteadyTrauma-Informed Family Serv…Private Membership ClubsYouth Sports ProgramsReproductive Health ServicesFaith-Based Community Servi…Regional Business ChambersChild & Family Support Serv…K-12 Educational Equity Pro…Kansas City Charter and Pri…
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 13 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%8%<5yr13%33%5–10yr16%17%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr25%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr13%9%5–10yr16%5%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr12%75%35–55yr25%3%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/44
the rest of the field
13%
1,081/8,380

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

37 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. 37 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
17/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY — $3,394,150 · OtherMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRYLutheran Urbank Mission Agency — $576,000 · OtherLutheran Urbank Mission AgencyCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC — $160,000 · Other+12 more — $431,000 · Other+12 moreOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $1,025,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKT…+1 more — $20,000 · EducationJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $150,000 · Human ServicesPETES GARDEN — $138,460 · Human ServicesHUB ARGENTINE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLEAD TO READ INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesPCS FOR PEOPLE — $30,250 · Human ServicesADOPTION & BEYOND INC — $20,000 · Human Services+11 more — $104,000 · Human ServicesHOPEBUILDERS HOME REPAIR INC — $342,000 · Housing & ShelterTHREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW CREATION INC — $35,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMISSION SOUTHSIDE INC — $222,985 · ReligionSEVENDAYS INC — $10,000 · ReligionJohnson County Interfaith Justice Organization JCIJO Inc — $10,000 · ReligionFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC — $167,500 · Community ImprovementAmethyst Place Inc — $90,000 · HealthWelcome House Inc — $17,500 · Health
Other$4,561,150Education$1,045,000Human Services$537,710Housing & Shelter$437,000Religion$242,985Community Improvement$167,500Health$107,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY — $3,394,150 over 5y, 15% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $1,025,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHOPEBUILDERS HOME REPAIR INC — $342,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetMISSION SOUTHSIDE INC — $222,985 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC — $167,500 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC — $160,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPETES GARDEN — $138,460 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS BUREAU — $95,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $90,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHUB ARGENTINE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetTHREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE VILLAGE INITIATIVE — $50,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC — $45,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetJOCO IHN INC — $40,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetJourney to New Life INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW CREATION INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPCS FOR PEOPLE — $30,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADOPTION & BEYOND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetELEVATE METRO KC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetWelcome House Inc — $17,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTylers House KC Inc — $11,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetSEVENDAYS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetDads Against Crime Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetONE NINETY-NINE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRelentless Pursuit Outreach & Recovery Corp — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLORRAINE'S HOUSE — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetI 58 KC MINISTRIES — $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetRESTORATION HOUSE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMothers Refuge — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAREFOOT MISSION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetJohnson County Interfaith Justice Organization JCIJO Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAngel Clothing Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCHRISTIAN FAMILY SERVICES — $5,500 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Servant FoundationThe Sunderland Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Oppenstein Brothers F…Menorah Heritage Foun…Health Forward Founda…Jackson County Commun…The H & R Block Found…Commerce Bancshares F…The Curry Family Foun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO50.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Servant Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The H & R Block Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Curry 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 Partners People in Progress Inc 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%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Partners People in Progress Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Partners People in Progress Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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