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R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$2.4MFood & Nutrition$1.7MHealth$1.0MEducation$673kCrime & Legal$660kHuman Services$530kEnvironment$300kInternational$235kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $575k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOCSA$500,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY$150,000
BOULDER MUSEUM CONTEMPORARY ART$100,000
YMCA OF NORTHERN CO$62,500
YMCA OF NORTH COLORADO$62,500
TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
EISENHOWER MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$50,000
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT$25,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM$25,000
NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM$25,000
LEAD TO READ KC$25,000
SAINT LUKES HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
KANSAS CITY BALLET$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 (FY19–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SYNERGY SERVICES: $10k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 5%LEAD TO READ KC: $25k → 8%LEAD TO READ KC: $25k → 8%PAWSPERITY: $10k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $50k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $50k → 15%HEALING HOUSE: $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.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
CA
CO
MO
KS
TN
NC

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.3M · 37 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
60

Total granted

$5.3M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+26%

Still filing today

76%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCivil RightsOther

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

  • AF
    AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +70%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
    3× · 2019–2022 · $560k · revenue +149%
  • MO
    METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT
    3× · 2019–2024 · $560k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +15%
  • CC
    CENTRAL CITY OPERA ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • KF
    KCGPA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $204k

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
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
2
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
3
Kansas City Art Institute

The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.

Education
4
Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

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5
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
6
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…

Education
7
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
8
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
9
Jefferson National Parks Association

Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.

Arts & Culture
10
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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11
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
12
Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kansas City Startup Foundation. 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 backsteadyLocal History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsMilitary Veterans SupportJewish Community Organizati…Food Banks and PantriesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Domestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…School District FoundationsAnimal Rescue and ShelterPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Arts Centers
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 38 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr12%5%5–10yr16%11%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr24%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%8%<5yr12%4%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr15%12%20–35yr16%23%35–55yr24%45%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/67
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,424

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

67 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. 67 of the 109 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
54/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTRAL CITY OPERA ASSOCIATION — $250,000 · OtherCENTRAL CITY OPERA ASSOCIATIONKCGPA FOUNDATION — $204,000 · OtherKCGPA FOUNDATIONUMKC LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherUMKC LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATIONKC CREATES INC — $192,500 · OtherKC CREATES INCAFTER THE HARVEST — $120,000 · OtherHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $150,000 · OtherHALO FOUNDATION — $130,000 · OtherVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $135,000 · Other+60 more — $1,944,245 · Other+60 moreNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $560,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM A…KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $379,500 · Arts & CultureKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATI…BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $208,500 · Arts & CultureBOULDER MUSEUM OF CON…ALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART — $150,000 · Arts & CultureALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEU…+14 more — $296,000 · Arts & Culture+14 moreAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA — $1,178,357 · Youth DevelopmentAGRICULTURE FUT…The Children's Mercy Hospital — $500,000 · HealthThe Children…Eisenhower Medical Center — $175,000 · HealthEisenhower M…TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC — $85,000 · HealthTURNER HOUSE…Amethyst Place Inc — $65,000 · HealthAmethyst Pla…HNC LIVING FOUNDATION — $55,000 · HealthHNC LIVING F…+2 more — $15,000 · HealthMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $560,000 · Crime & LegalUMKC FOUNDATION — $187,500 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $105,000 · EducationCAPS NETWORK INC — $75,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION — $55,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $20,000 · Education+4 more — $35,000 · EducationAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $204,500 · Recreation & SportsROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL SPORTS CENTER FOR THE DISABLED INC — $15,000 · Recreation & Sports+2 more — $12,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$3,325,745Arts & Culture$1,594,000Youth Development$1,178,357Health$895,000Crime & Legal$560,000Education$477,500Recreation & Sports$382,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA — $1,178,357 over 2y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $560,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $560,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $379,500 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetBOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART — $208,500 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $204,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKC CREATES INC — $192,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION — $187,500 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY — $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART — $150,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $135,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHALO FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST — $120,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $100,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDucks Unlimited Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY — $100,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTFI DIGITAL ARCHIVE — $75,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCAPS NETWORK INC — $75,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC — $75,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $65,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHNC LIVING FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetKANSAS CITY STARTUP FOUNDATION — $55,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCHATHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $53,245 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL HEART — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetART AS MENTORSHIP INC — $46,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM — $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC — $30,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY KC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWEL BALL — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED WE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPitzer College — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Enid and Crosby Kempe…Greater Kansas City C…Jewish Community Foun…William T Kemper Char…Ewing Marion Kauffman…United Way of Greater…R C Kemper Jr Charita…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…The Francis Family Fo…Bebe & Crosby Kemper …The Sosland FoundationThe Sunderland Founda…
Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904MO70.4× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · William T Kemper Charitable Trust 10015200 · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · R C Kemper Jr Charitable Trust 10023600 · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Bebe & Crosby Kemper Foundation 10016600 · The Sosland Foundation · The Sunderland 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 C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 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 · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Chatham Historical Society Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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How do I get to R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800?

Find your warmest path to R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 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 109 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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