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Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation at a glance

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Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation

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

$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $7,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $68,039 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $61,039 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$883k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Mother's Refuge$7,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SAFEHOME Inc: $8k → 5%SAFEHOME Inc: $7k → 5%Safehome Inc: $7k → 5%Safehome Inc: $6k → 5%Safehome Inc: $5k → 5%Safehome Inc: $5k → 5%Mother's Refuge: $7k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 6 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$115k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SI
    SAFEHOME INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $37k · revenue +49%
  • CK
    CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC
    3× · 2018–2022 · $24k · revenue +96%
  • SC
    Shepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl
    2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • BL
    Bridge Leadership Academy
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +22%
  • TZ
    TRANSITION ZONE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -17%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Welcome House Inc

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…

Health
2
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

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.

Community Improvement
3
Cross-Lines Community Outreach Inc

To provide people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet the needs of today, and provide the tools for future self-sufficiency.

Human Services
4
Kinship Mke Inc

Kinship Community Food Center engages volunteers and neighborhood residents to end hunger, isolation, and poverty. Our innovative programs nourish food security and wellness, foster belonging and community engagement, and empower stability…

Food & Nutrition
5
Every Shelter Inc

Every Shelter's mission is to build a localized refugee-aid ecosystem centered around the needs, preferences, and aspirations of refugees.

Education
6
Refuge Kc Inc

We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom

Religion
7
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
8
Transitions

Transitions works to end poverty and homelessness for women and children in Spokane, Washington.

Human Services
9
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
10
King County Sexual Assault Resource Center

KCSARC is the largest and most comprehensive non-profit provider of sexual assault services in King County and Washington State. Our vision is a community free of sexual violence. Our mission is to: give voice to victims, their families,…

—
11
FamilyWise Services

Strengthening families by promoting the safety, stability and wellbeing of children.

Health
12
Flourish Community Development Corporation

Following Jesus Christ, Flourish stands with our neighbors in need through our food pantry, heals through relationships of reconciliation with our transitional housing program and life skills classes and invests in our community through…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc; the most unlike its peers is Transition Zone Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAFEHOME INC: $36,750 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INCMothers Refuge: $7,000 · Human ServicesMothers RefugeCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $24,045 · Food & NutritionCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INCHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $15,000 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOO…Shepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl: $15,500 · OtherShepherds Center of Kansas …The Whole Person Inc: $12,352 · OtherThe Whole Person IncSALVATION ARMY: $6,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMYFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC: $11,100 · Community ImprovementBridge Leadership Academy: $8,000 · Arts & CultureTRANSITION ZONE INC: $7,500 · Youth Development
Human Services$43,750Food & Nutrition$39,045Other$34,352Community Improvement$11,100Arts & Culture$8,000Youth Development$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Soroptimist Kansas City Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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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.

    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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