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Missouri · Public charity

Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation

To improve the lives of women and girls through programs leading to social and economic empowerment.

$68k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Itemized grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$7k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$7,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$7,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$883k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$7k100%
FY20232$13k50%
FY20223$22k33%
FY20214$27k50%
FY20204$32k25%
FY20192$11k0%
FY20182$13k50%
FY20173$20kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$52kFood & Nutrition$39kHousing & Shelter$14kCommunity Improvement$11kArts & Culture$8kYouth Development$8kHealth$7kEmployment$5k

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Safehome Inc$36,75060%
Cultivate Kansas City Inc$24,04531%
Shepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl$15,50021%
Harvesters - the Community Food Network$15,00020%
The Whole Person Inc$12,35220%
Flourish Furnishings Inc$11,10021%
Bridge Leadership Academy$8,00012%
Transition Zone Inc$7,5001n/a
Mothers Refuge$7,00010%
Salvation Army$6,5001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSafehome Inc: $36,750 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCultivate Kansas City Inc: $24,045 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetShepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl: $15,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHarvesters - the Community Food Network: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Whole Person Inc: $12,352 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFlourish Furnishings Inc: $11,100 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBridge Leadership Academy: $8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMothers Refuge: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 8.

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…Health Forward Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…Menorah Heritage Foun…Commerce Bancshares F…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover 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 · Health Forward Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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.

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How do I get to Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation

How much does Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation give?
Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation reported 1 itemized grants totaling $7,000, out of $68,039 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Food & Nutrition (27%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
Who are Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Safehome Inc ($37k), Cultivate Kansas City Inc ($24k), Shepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl ($16k).
Does Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Health Forward Foundation.
Where is Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation based?
Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation is based in MO.

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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $67k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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