· Public charity
Power of Hope Foundation
Raises funds and provides support to organizations that serve and improve the communities where kiewit power works.
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
- $10k–50k2 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $415k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INCLUSION CONNECTIONS | $243,000 |
| VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $121,500 |
| LITERACY KC | $50,000 |
| LEAD TO READ | $40,900 |
| LEE TOLBERT COMMUNITY ACADEMY | $30,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k 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
- BHBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC3× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +100% · 48% of their budget
- RMRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc3× · 2020–2023 · $484k · revenue +73%
- ICINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $362k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +43%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospitalone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +15%
- CNCharity Navigatorgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +80%
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.
At conquering chd we exist to conquerin the most common birth defect. we engage, listen, learn, and act. we create visibility and empower all impacted by chd. we accomplish this through awareness, knowledge, community and research.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.
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We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.
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The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
Skc impacts children through the initiation of clinical research trials of investigative treatment strategies. our vision is to continue expanding the armamentarium of effective and less toxic treartment strategies for pediatric…
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bradens Hope for Childhood Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 BRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
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: John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · Greater Horizons · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Power of Hope 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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