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Richard H and Charlotte G Orear Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Richard H and Charlotte G Orear Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$386kHuman Services$335kPublic Benefit$207kEducation$203kReligion$136kPhilanthropy$22kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION$30,000
HARMONY PROJECT KC$25,000
CORNERSTONES OF CARE - OZANAM$25,000
CHILDREN'S MERCY$20,000
INCLUSION CONNECTIONS$15,000
MISSION SOUTHSIDE$10,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $30k → 15%THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $30k → 15%KANSAS CITY MEDICINE CABINET: $11k → 15%THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $28k → 15%ACCESSKC: $11k → 15%INCLUSION CONNECTIONS: $15k → 5%THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $25k → 15%KANSAS CITY'S MEDICINE CABINET: $11k → 15%GATEWAY OF HOPE: $12k → 5%THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $25k → 15%GATEWAY OF HOPE: $12k → 5%THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $25k → 15%GATEWAY OF HOPE: $11k → 5%THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 15%KIDS TLC: $11k → 5%THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $20k → 15%GATEWAY OF HOPE: $11k → 5%GATEWAY OF HOPE: $11k → 5%INCLUSION CONNECTIONS: $11k → 5%INCLUSION CONNECTIONS: $11k → 5%CORNERSTONES OF CARE - OZANAM: $25k → 15%OZANAM: $22k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE - OZANAM: $22k → 15%OZANAM: $22k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE - OZANAM: $22k → 15%OZANAM: $22k → 15%OZANAM: $22k → 15%OZANAM: $20k → 15%OZANAM: $20k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY: $25k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY: $25k → 15%Children's Mercy Hospital: $25k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS: $11k → 5%Children's Mercy Hospital: $22k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NE KS: $11k → 5%Children's Mercy Hospital: $22k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NE KS: $11k → 5%Children's Mercy Hospital: $22k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL: $20k → 15%Children's Mercy Hospital: $20k → 15%CHILDREN'S MERCY: $20k → 15%ABILITY KC: $11k → 15%ABILITY KC: $11k → 15%HARMONY PROJECT KC: $25k → 15%HARMONY PROJECT KC: $13k → 15%HARMONY PROJECT KC: $13k → 15%HARMONY PROJECT KC: $12k → 15%HARMONY PROJECT KC: $12k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 16 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
4

Total granted

$1.2M
$42k

Still filing today

56%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationReligionOther
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

  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    8× · 2018–2025 · $203k · revenue +18%
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    6× · 2017–2022 · $130k · revenue +67%
  • GO
    GATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • A
    ACCESSKC
    one grant, 2024 · $11k
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY MEDICINE CABINET
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
2
Kansas City Hospice Inc

To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.

Human Services
3
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…

Science & Tech
4
Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…

Science & Tech
5
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
6
Teamability Inc

Teamability strives to ensure that children with severe multiple disabilities have the opportunity to benefit from therapeautic educational intervention to participate actively in life.

Education
7
Madison County Community Hospital

Madison health's vision is to provide exceptional healthcare in a respectful, compassionate, and healing environment.

Health
8
Kvc Behavioral Healthcare Nebraska Inc

It is the mission of kvc to enrich and enhance the lives of children and their families by providing medical and behavioral healthcare, social services and education.

Health
9
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
10
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
11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
12
Bioscience & Technology Business Center Inc

The organization's mission is to create, recruit, grow and retain technology and bioscience businesses in northeast kansas with the ultimate vision to build a more modern, resilient and diverse regional economy.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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

10 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. 10 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Cornerstones of Care: $126,000 · OtherCornerstones of CareHARMONY PROJECT KC: $114,000 · OtherHARMONY PROJECT KCGATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $87,000 · OtherGATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIESKIDSTLC INC: $75,000 · OtherKIDSTLC INCCHILDREN'S MERCY: $70,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MERCYABILITY KC: $69,500 · OtherABILITY KCCORNERSTONES OF CARE - OZANAM: $68,000 · OtherCORNERSTONES OF CARE - OZANAMKANSAS CITY'S MEDICINE CABINET: $61,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY'S MEDICINE CABINETCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $61,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INCRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF KC: $43,500 · Other+5 more: $64,000 · Other+5 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $129,500 · HealthThe Children's Mercy …INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $67,000 · HealthINCLUSION CONNECTIONS…JOSHUA CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: $29,500 · HealthJOSHUA CENTER FOR NEU…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED I…The Kansas University Endowment Association: $203,000 · EducationThe Kansas Univer…MISSION SOUTHSIDE INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$839,000Health$246,000Education$203,000Religion$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $203,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $129,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $87,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetABILITY KC: $69,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $67,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $61,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJOSHUA CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: $29,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION SOUTHSIDE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds GATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
  • Who funds INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSHUA CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION SOUTHSIDE INC ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…R a Long Foundation 6…John J Sullivan Jr Fo…The Sunderland Founda…Greater HorizonsServant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Horizons · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Richard H and Charlotte G Orear Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard H and Charlotte G Orear Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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.

    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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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