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Power of Hope Foundation

Raises funds and provides support to organizations that serve and improve the communities where kiewit power works.

$485k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$243k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MHuman Services$484kCrime & Legal$430kHousing & Shelter$359kEducation$121kArts & Culture$6k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $415k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INCLUSION CONNECTIONS$243,000
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT$121,500
LITERACY KC$50,000
LEAD TO READ$40,900
LEE TOLBERT COMMUNITY ACADEMY$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LEAD TO READ: $41k → 15%CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL: $60k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 6 repeat orgs$347k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$2.9M
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+45%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CulturePublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BH
    BRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC
    3× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +100% · 48% of their budget
  • RM
    Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc
    3× · 2020–2023 · $484k · revenue +73%
  • IC
    INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $362k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • AH
    American Heart Association Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +43%
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +15%
  • CN
    Charity Navigatorgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +80%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

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2
Conquering Congenital Heart Disease

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.

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Children's Health Care

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.

Health
5
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
6
Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundation

Phoenix children's hospital foundation supports phoenix children's hospital through fundraising ensuring that the hospital continues to stay on the leading edge of pediatric medicine and is equipped to fulfill its mission to advance hope,…

Health
7
Children's Hospital Colorado

To improve the health of children through the provision of high-quality, coordinated programs of patient care, education, research and advocacy.

Health
8
Cook Children's Health Care System

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
9
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
10
Elevate Childhood Cancer Research and Advocacy

Elevate Childhood Cancer Research and Advocacy advances its charitable mission through three core pillars: advocacy, empowerment, and strategic investment in research. Advocacy focuses on elevating the voices of patients and caregivers…

Philanthropy
11
Children's Heartlink

We save children's lives by transforming pediatric heart care in underserved parts of the world.

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12
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $1,108,000 · HealthBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INCRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $483,739 · HealthRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City IncINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $361,750 · HealthINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INCAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $165,097 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTIONAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $60,000 · HealthSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC: $430,000 · Crime & LegalSUNFLOWER HOUS…VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $359,000 · Public BenefitVETERANS COM…Charity Navigator: $60,000 · Human ServicesLEAD TO READ INC: $40,900 · Human ServicesLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $50,000 · OtherLEE TOLBERT COMMUNITY ACADEMY: $30,000 · OtherDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $6,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$2,278,586Crime & Legal$430,000Public Benefit$359,000Human Services$100,900Other$80,000Arts & Culture$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $1,108,000 over 3y, 48% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $483,739 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC: $430,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $361,750 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $359,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $165,097 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $60,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC: $40,900 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

John J Sullivan Jr Fo…The Kansas City Royal…United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…Servant FoundationR a Long Foundation 6…Oppenstein Brothers F…Ash Grove Charitable …Greater HorizonsNatl Christian Charit…The Blackbaud Giving …American Online Givin…
John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-TrusteesKS15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Power of Hope Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Power of Hope Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Power of Hope Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Power of Hope Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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