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Stark Wolkoff Foundation 13776600

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182025.

Health$41kAnimals$29kHuman Services$27kYouth Development$23kArts & Culture$15kEducation$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$442k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc$5,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS & NW MISSOURI$5,000
Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City$5,000
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL$2,000
Cornerstones of Care$2,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $4k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $3k → 15%Cornerstones of Care: $2k → 15%RECONCILLIATION SERVICES: $4k → 15%RECONCILLIATION SERVICES: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$129k · 9 repeat orgs$24k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$129k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+52%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    7× · 2018–2025 · $31k · revenue +41%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +3%
  • WU
    WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $9k · revenue +217%

Funded once

  • NW
    NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIALgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +130%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
  • SL
    Saint Lukes Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -26%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
2
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

3
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
4
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education
5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
7
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians

The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…

8
Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…

Science & Tech
9
Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

10
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
11
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
12
Kansas City Art Institute

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.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy and the most unlike its peers is Steps of Faith Foundation. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Children's Mercy Hospital — $31,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy HospitalSaint Lukes Foundation — $5,000 · HealthSaint Lukes FoundationSTEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthSTEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK — $25,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ZOO IN…WAYSIDE WAIFS INC — $4,000 · AnimalsWAYSIDE WAIFS INCGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NE…CORNERSTONES OF CARE — $9,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONE…RECONCILIATION SERVICES — $7,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIAT…VARIETY CHILDREN'S CHARITY — $10,500 · OtherVARIETY CHI…Individual grant recipient — $4,500 · OtherIndividual …KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY…NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WW…WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 · EducationWASHBURN U…KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationKANSAS CIT…
Health$41,000Animals$29,000Youth Development$23,000Human Services$16,000Other$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000Education$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $7,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS OF FAITH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

J B Reynolds FoundationMO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J B Reynolds Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community · The Sosland Foundation · The Torosian Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman 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 Stark Wolkoff Foundation 13776600 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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