· Public charity
School Smart Kc Inc
From our inception our mission has been to eliminate the achievement gap for students in kansas city.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $895k
- $250k+6 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE EDUCATOR ACADEMY | $947,500 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $693,750 |
| SHOW ME KC SCHOOLS | $546,881 |
| UMKC FOUNDATION | $390,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $271,080 |
| ACADEMY FOR THE INTEGRATED ARTS | $258,990 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $226,000 |
| EACH ONE TEACH ONE LEARNING CENTER LLC | $125,000 |
| GUADALUPE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM INC | $116,668 |
| SPARKWHEEL INC | $115,000 |
| ROYAL CHARITIES INC | $100,000 |
| TEACHERS LIKE ME | $90,000 |
| DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES | $70,000 |
| LATINX EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE | $52,500 |
| CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS OF KANSAS CITY | $32,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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 +55% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $4.9M · revenue ×20 · 43% of their budget
- ALACADEMIE LAFAYETTE6× · 2017–2022 · $3.2M · revenue +124%
- SMShow Me KC Schools Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +245% · 86% of their budget
Funded once
- HMHICKMAN MILLS C-1SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $300k
- CSCENTER SCHOOL DISTRICT #58 AND #59one grant, 2020 · $135k
- SJST JAMES-PASEO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INCone grant, 2020 · $73k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy and the most unlike its peers is Global Fc. 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 19 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 70 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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EDUCATOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds Show Me KC Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HOGAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BSDS INC BROOKSIDE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KC INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SCUOLA VITA NUOVA ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KC ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MO KAN 2020 VISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEACHERS LIKE ME ↗
- Who funds Aligned ↗
- Who funds Latinx Education Collaborative ↗
- Who funds TURN THE PAGE KC INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOOLWORKS LAB INC ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds GENESIS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers Liberating Our Communities Inc ↗
- Who funds KIPP KANSAS CITY ↗
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: 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
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 School Smart Kc Inc 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.