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Sarli Family 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–50k1 grant · $30k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY CASA | $75,000 |
| BURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $75,000 |
| CAMPS FOR KIDS | $75,000 |
| KVC HOSPITALS INC | $75,000 |
| KANSAS CITY HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE | $75,000 |
| ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION CRITTENTON CHILDREN'S CENTER | $75,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC | $75,000 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE | $75,000 |
| ST LUKES HOSPITAL FDN | $75,000 |
| AMETHYST PLACE INC | $75,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED | $75,000 |
| HAPPY BOTTOMS | $75,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +74% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +67%
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +23%
- CFCAMPS FOR KIDS9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +107% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- SLSaint Lukes Foundationone grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue 0%
- TRTHE REHAB INSTITUTE OF KC (CHILDREN'S TLC)one grant, 2018 · $75k
- GFGILLIS FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIESone grant, 2017 · $75k
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.
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.
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
It is the mission of kvc to enrich and enhance the lives of children and their families by providing medical and behavioral health care, social services and education.
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
The corporation is organized for charitable, educational, and scientific purposes, and to provide pediatric home health care, alternate site and other pediatric services to pediatric patients. in addition, kids home care conducts health…
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…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule "o".with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kidstlc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sleepyhead Beds. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI ↗
- Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BURNS RECOVERED SUPPORT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds KVC HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEPYHEAD BEDS ↗
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 · Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund
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 Sarli Family 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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