· Private foundation
Stern Elaine Feld Char Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $22,000 |
| HARVESTERS THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $9,000 |
| JACKSON COUNTY CASA | $5,000 |
| ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC | $4,250 |
| BACH ARIA SOLOISTS | $4,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $3,250 |
| CORNERSTONES OF CARE | $3,000 |
| KC PET PROJECT | $3,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER | $3,000 |
| KANSAS CITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MOCSA | $2,000 |
| NEW REFORM TEMPLE | $2,000 |
| WILDWOOD OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER INC | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $2,000 |
| THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KANSAS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $259k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
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.
61 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +46%
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +40%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- ARAMERICAN RED CROSS-KCMOone grant, 2024 · $25k
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATIone grant, 2017 · $4k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KCone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
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,…
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…
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…
To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Human Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Israel America Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 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) — 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 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.
52 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. 52 of the 84 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds BACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Monterey County Rape Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LEE'S SUMMIT CARES ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
- Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JANUS OF SANTA CRUZ ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sunderland Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Health Forward Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Francis 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 Stern Elaine Feld Char Tr 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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