· Public charity
Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundation
The organization is designed to provide support for other charitable organizations as described in section 501(c)(3) and sections 509(a) of the internal revenue code.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Federation Of Greater Kansas City, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $518k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2018
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Village Shalom Inc | $250,000 |
| Kansas City Ballet | $100,000 |
| Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art | $72,500 |
| Mayo Clinic | $25,000 |
| Operation Breakthrough | $25,000 |
| Harry S Truman Library Institute | $15,000 |
| Jewish Community Center | $10,000 |
| Village Shalom Inc | $10,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of the Great Plains | $5,000 |
| Unicorn Theatre | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 49% of Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +63% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k 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
- VSVILLAGE SHALOM INC2× · 2017–2018 · $270k · revenue +49%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY3× · 2018–2023 · $133k · revenue +63%
- KCKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION2× · 2018–2019 · $110k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +105%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORYone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +8%
- KCKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -36%
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
To conduct and support activities for the benefit of the jewish federation of omaha.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
The colorado symphony association (csa) is a not-for-profit organization established to fund and operate the colorado symphony orchestra for the enjoyment and benefit of the citizens of metropolitan denver and (cont'd on schedule…
To provide effective advocacy for the financial services industry both in kentucky and on a national level; to serve as a reliable and responsive source of information and education about areas of interest to the industry; and to provide a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs. 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 57 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 24 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds UNICORN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UMKC CONSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds SEVENDAYS INC ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
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: G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Nerman Family Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundation · Abe & Anna Bograd Memorial Trust 10030800 · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904
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 Stanley J Bushman Supporting 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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