· Private foundation
Rensenhouse Charitable Foundation Inc of Missouri
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kansas City Actors Theatre | $3,600 |
| City Union Mission | $3,000 |
| Operation Breakthrough | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Wright Opera House | $2,000 |
| Save the Children | $2,000 |
| Ouray International Film Festival | $2,000 |
| KKFI | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital | $1,000 |
| Riley Gaines Center | $1,000 |
| Haven House | $1,000 |
| Avila University Dr Charlene Gould Endowed Chair | $1,000 |
| WildHERness | $1,000 |
| Frank Theatre | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- KCKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +12%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +65%
- CUCity Union Mission3× · 2020–2024 · $6k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HOHEALTH OUTREACH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -53%
- OTOURAY TEACHER FUNDone grant, 2022 · $5k
- WOWright Opera Endowment Fundone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…
To inspire, entertain and open minds by creating transformative theatre experiences for all.
From its rocky mountain roots, creede repertory theatre serves as an artistic home to our rural community and beyond, through the creation of repertory seasons, dynamic educational programs, and compelling new works.
To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…
Connecting our community through live arts experiences that entertain, inspire, and engage
Our mission is to attract diverse people, nuture artists, and strengthen kansas city economically by producing cultural, education, accessible, and affordable events that connect audiences, artists, businesses, and civic organizations. the…
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
The omaha community playhouse is a performing arts organization that enhances quality of life through live theatre, community involvement, and arts education. we are dedicated to enriching the lives of audiences and participants through…
Building bridges between communities and generations while providing an outlet for artistic expression and quality entertainment in western Hennepin and eastern Wright counties of Minnesota since 1998.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Kc and the most unlike its peers is Ouray County Historical Society. 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 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 65 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 KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds HEALTH OUTREACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Haven House of Montrose Inc ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER KC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds GOLF FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARN PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds VARIETY OF GREATER KANSAS CITY TENT 8 ↗
- Who funds THEATRE GIGANTE INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Orme School ↗
- Who funds Ouray County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Borrego Art Institute ↗
- Who funds STRAW TO BREAD ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE HARVEST ↗
- Who funds ARROW ROCK LYCEUM THEATRE 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 · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Francis Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Breidenthal-Snyder Foundation Inc · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Ingram Family Foundation · Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · J B Reynolds 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 Rensenhouse Charitable Foundation Inc of Missouri 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% 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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