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Peculiar Charitable 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 $10k34 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $213k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $213,181 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GREATER JOBS OF KANSAS CITY | $20,000 |
| CASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HARVESTERSCOMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $10,000 |
| CARING HEARTS OF PECULIAR | $10,000 |
| HOPE HAVEN OF CASS COUNTY | $9,000 |
| HEART N HAND | $9,000 |
| CASS COUNTY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | $8,000 |
| PLEASANT HILL LAY CLERGY | $6,000 |
| WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY | $6,000 |
| RAYMORE PECULIAR SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,500 |
| RAYMORE PECULIAR PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PECULIAR | $5,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF CASS COUNTY | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +40% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 10 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $279k 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
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +10%
- CCCASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2018–2024 · $73k · revenue +142%
- RPRAYMORE-PECULIAR PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- KSKS SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
- CMCASS MIDWAY R-1 SCHOOL DISTRICT PTOone grant, 2021 · $15k
- HFHarvesters-Community Food Network of KCone grant, 2018 · $15k
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
Bradley university empowers students for immediate and sustained success in their personal and professional endeavors by combining professional preparation, liberal arts and sciences, and co-curricular experiences. alongside our dedication…
Xavier is a jesuit catholic university rooted in the liberal arts tradition. our mission is to educate each student intellectually, morally, and spiritually. we create learning opportunities through rigorous academic and professional…
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cass Regional Medical Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pleasant Hill Cares. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 198 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 HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CASS COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAYMORE-PECULIAR PUBLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN OF CASS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HEART-N-HAND MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WEST CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF CASS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CASS REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARRISONVILLE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CASS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BELTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLEASANT HILL CARES ↗
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: Truman Heartland Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · Terry & Susie Reardon Family Foundation · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Jack J Isgur 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 Peculiar Charitable 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.
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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