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Sally Ann Firestone 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k22 grants · $517k
- $50k–250k20 grants · $1.7M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $831,715 |
| KANSAS CITY ACADEMY | $262,500 |
| CROSSLINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $262,500 |
| HARVESTERS | $201,250 |
| RESTART | $183,750 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES | $118,125 |
| CRAIG HOSPITAL | $105,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PBS | $105,000 |
| INSPIRATION MINISTRIES - WALWORTH | $105,000 |
| GARRETT-EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $78,750 |
| SAINT PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY | $78,750 |
| ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $78,750 |
| TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $75,000 |
| FOLLY THEATRE | $72,500 |
| LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI | $70,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $906k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 89% 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.
36 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $315k 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
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK5× · 2017–2025 · $472k · revenue +40%
- IWILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $231k · revenue +18%
- PTPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC2× · 2024–2025 · $206k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- KFKINGSWOOD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $506k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
- SNSpecial Needs Assured Incone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 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 organization is committed to working with individuals, families, and communities to promote independent living and individual choice to persons with disabilities.
Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Zealously advocating for the disability rights of kansans to protect their full participation as citizens.
To actively seek employment for individuals with psychological or physical disabilities.
We empower central texans with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families through compassionate case management and innovative programs.
Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.
Provide Case Management for people with developmental disabilities such as autism services, respite care, crisis intervention, self directed services, and Medicaid Home and Cummunity Based Waiver programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Welcome House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Special Needs Assured Inc. 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 47 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 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 58 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.
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- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Craig Hospital ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM ↗
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- Who funds INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC ↗
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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 · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons · J B Reynolds Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Research Foundation · Victor E Speas Foundation · Hall Family 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 Sally Ann Firestone Foundation 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.
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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