· Private foundation
R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of R A LONG FOUNDATION 600 PLAZA WEST BLDG’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k99 grants · $371k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $13,750 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE | $12,500 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MCC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMM COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| GRANTVIEW PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| LITERACY KANSAS CITY | $8,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $7,500 |
| SHEFFIELD PLACE | $7,000 |
| METRO LUTHERN MINISTRY | $6,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER KC | $6,000 |
| NEWHOUSE | $6,000 |
| SUNFLOWER HOUSE | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE | $6,000 |
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, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 85% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
123 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 12 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- OPOLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +39%
- COCORNERSTONES OF CARE4× · 2021–2024 · $42k · revenue +2%
- LKLITERACY KANSAS CITY5× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- KCKANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · $10k
- GPGRANDVIEW PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- STSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +666%
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.
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
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…
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…
Junior achievement accelerates economic opportunity and mobility for youth through cross-sector collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that improve educational and economic outcomes for students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/a Mattie Rhodes Center and the most unlike its peers is Longview Farm Elementary Pta. 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
111 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. 111 of the 159 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 OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
- Who funds Wildwood Outdoor Education Center ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds MO KAN 2020 VISION INC ↗
- Who funds Green Works In Kansas City ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds LONGVIEW FARM ELEMENTARY PTA ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BAND OF ANGELS CORP ↗
- Who funds The Whole Person Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES 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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Edward & Kathryn Mader 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 R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg 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.
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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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