How much does School Smart Kc Inc give?

School Smart Kc Inc reported 34 grants totaling $4,385,014 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does School Smart Kc Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Youth Development (1%), Human Services (0%).

Who are School Smart Kc Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation ($4.9M), The Educator Academy Inc ($4.8M), Academie Lafayette ($3.2M).

Does School Smart Kc Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as School Smart Kc Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Sherman Family Foundation.

Where is School Smart Kc Inc based?

School Smart Kc Inc is based in MO.

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Missouri · Public charity

School Smart Kc Inc

From our inception our mission has been to eliminate the achievement gap for students in kansas city. (continued on schedule o)we recognize the existing obstacles and challenges that affect school performance in our city - and we are fueled in our work by the passion of our families, the commitment of our school leaders and educators,…

$4.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 34
Grants FY2024: 25
Organizations funded FY2023: 8%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $26,668
Largest grant, FY2024: $947,500
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 45; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 5
Total assets, FY2024: $12M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations School Smart Kc Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	34	$4.4M	18%
FY2023	25	$4.9M	8%
FY2022	29	$6.4M	14%
FY2021	29	$5.6M	34%
FY2020	45	$8.3M	49%
FY2019	24	$6.7M	33%
FY2018	16	$4.0M	56%
FY2017	8	$1.2M	n/a

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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 2024.

Education$41MYouth Development$278kHuman Services$185kHealth$91kReligion$73kInternational$70kHousing & Shelter$25kArts & Culture$20k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation	$4,852,263	5	43%
The Educator Academy Inc	$4,832,500	4	38%
Academie Lafayette	$3,153,396	6	6%
Show Me KC Schools Inc	$2,981,711	8	86%
Teach for America Inc	$2,975,000	3	1%
Hogan Preparatory Academy Inc	$2,830,900	5	6%
Crossroads Charter Schools	$2,558,790	8	7%
Bsds Inc Brookside Charter School	$1,789,113	7	5%
Sparkwheel Inc	$1,645,677	8	8%
Guadalupe Educational System Inc	$1,590,628	6	3%

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All grantees of School Smart Kc Inc by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation	$4,852,263	5	43%
The Educator Academy Inc	$4,832,500	4	38%
Academie Lafayette	$3,153,396	6	6%
Show Me KC Schools Inc	$2,981,711	8	86%
Teach for America Inc	$2,975,000	3	1%
Hogan Preparatory Academy Inc	$2,830,900	5	6%
Crossroads Charter Schools	$2,558,790	8	7%
Bsds Inc Brookside Charter School	$1,789,113	7	5%
Sparkwheel Inc	$1,645,677	8	8%
Guadalupe Educational System Inc	$1,590,628	6	3%
Citizens of the World Charter School-Kansas City	$1,377,654	7	16%
City Year Inc	$1,101,000	4	0%
Umkc Foundation	$1,085,000	4	2%
Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy	$1,078,090	6	14%
Kc International Academy	$952,787	7	3%
Scuola Vita Nuova	$689,000	5	5%
Academy for Integrated Arts	$606,656	6	5%
Kansas City Public Schools	$549,714	3	n/a
Kansas City Neighborhood Academy	$500,000	3	8%
Kc Action Fund	$375,000	2	100%
Hickman Mills C-1school District	$300,000	1	n/a
De la Salle Education Center	$284,556	6	6%
Mo Kan 2020 Vision Inc	$268,010	4	32%
The Kansas City Royals Foundation	$250,000	3	3%
Teachers Like Me	$240,000	4	12%
Aligned	$200,000	2	25%
Latinx Education Collaborative	$187,500	5	8%
Turn the Page Kc Inc	$161,070	4	13%
University Academy	$136,668	5	0%
Center School District #58 and #59	$135,000	1	n/a
The Literacy Lab	$125,000	2	0%
Frontier Schools Inc	$120,400	2	0%
Association of Missouri Charter Schools	$115,000	3	4%
The Schoolworks Lab Inc	$113,085	3	n/a
Tntp Inc	$107,700	3	0%
Genesis School Inc	$104,884	5	1%
Brothers Liberating Our Communities Inc	$100,000	3	11%
Kipp Kansas City	$76,804	6	0%
St James-Paseo United Methodist Church Inc	$72,500	1	n/a
Della Lamb Community Services	$70,000	1	1%
Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/A Mattie Rhodes Center	$64,350	1	2%
Sparrow Community Development Corporation	$58,500	1	n/a
School Leader Lab	$54,000	2	2%
Hope Leadership Academy	$51,640	3	2%
Principalsconnect	$50,000	2	22%
McEl United Inc	$48,000	3	10%
Avenue of Life Inc	$45,000	2	1%
Gordon Parks Elementary School	$42,260	3	1%
The Transition Academy	$40,000	1	61%
Global Fc	$35,000	1	13%
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc	$34,681	1	1%
Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc	$27,474	1	1%
United Inner City Services Inc	$25,200	1	1%
Start at Zero Inc	$25,000	1	3%
University of Central Missouri Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Sherwood Center for the Exceptional Child	$20,575	1	0%
Public Television 19 Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Operation Breakthrough Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Inc	$19,600	2	0%
Green Works In Kansas City	$17,600	1	7%
Western Governors University	$15,000	1	0%
Boys Hope Girls Hope	$10,000	1	n/a
Emmanuel Family and Child Development Center & Emergency Shelter for Childr	$10,000	1	0%
Afton Partners LLC	$10,000	1	n/a
Insignia Partners Consulting	$8,000	1	n/a
The Children's Mercy Hospital	$6,487	1	0%
Minddrive Incorporated	$5,000	1	1%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($133k), not named here.

School Smart Kc Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 58.

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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.

Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationMO95.1× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Health Forward Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Francis Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Baum Family Foundation · The Shumaker Family 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.

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About School Smart Kc Inc

How much does School Smart Kc Inc give?: School Smart Kc Inc reported 34 grants totaling $4,385,014 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 45 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does School Smart Kc Inc fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (98%), Youth Development (1%), Human Services (0%).
Who are School Smart Kc Inc's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation ($4.9M), The Educator Academy Inc ($4.8M), Academie Lafayette ($3.2M).
Does School Smart Kc Inc fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as School Smart Kc Inc?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Sherman Family Foundation.
Where is School Smart Kc Inc based?: School Smart Kc Inc is based in MO.