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Stern Elaine Feld Char Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$99k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$301kHuman Services$238kPublic Safety & Disaster$216kFood & Nutrition$211kCrime & Legal$132kArts & Culture$60kYouth Development$43kEducation$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k40 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER$3,000
KC PET PROJECT$3,000
CORNERSTONES OF CARE$3,000
CHILD PROTECTION CENTER$2,000
KANSAS CITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION$2,000
WILDWOOD OUTDOOR EDUCATION CENTER INC$2,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$2,000
NEWHOUSE$2,000
THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KANSAS$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LAKEMARY CENTER INC: $1k → 7%NEW HORIZON RANCH INC: $2k → 10%NEW HORIZON RANCH INC: $2k → 10%NEW HORIZON RANCH INC: $1k → 10%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $2k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $2k → 15%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2k → 5%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $2k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $1k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $1k → 15%VILLAGE SHALOM: $2k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $2k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $1k → 5%SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS: $1k → 5%SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS: $1k → 5%SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS: $1k → 5%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $1k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $22k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $3k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $3k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $3k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $3k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $2k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $2k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $24k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $6k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $4k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $4k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $3k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $3k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%PAWSPERITY: $2k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 61 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
13

Total granted

$1.3M
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+150%

Still filing today

69%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEmploymentAnimalsEducationOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    8× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +46%
  • HT
    HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $131k · revenue +40%
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS-KCMO
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • JD
    JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATI
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KC
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
3
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

—
4
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,…

—
5
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
6
Spay & Neuter Kansas City D/B/a Pet Resource Center 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.

Animals
7
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
8
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

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…

Health
9
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
10
Kansas City Anti Violence Project

To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.

—
11
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
12
Safehome Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Human Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 84 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY: $95,250 · OtherSALVATION ARMYLEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES: $69,000 · OtherLEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICESMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CEN: $28,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE: $28,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS C: $27,500 · OtherMonterey County Rape Crisis Center: $26,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS-KCMO: $25,000 · OtherTRUMAN MED CTR-LAKEWOOD FMLY BIRTHP: $24,000 · Other+47 more: $279,250 · Other+47 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $191,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red C…CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $24,500 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CAREWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT…HOPE HOUSE INC: $19,500 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INC+7 more: $24,000 · Human Services+7 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $61,500 · HealthThe Children'…BREAKTHROUGH T1D: $18,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH …PETS FOR LIFE INC: $16,000 · HealthPETS FOR LIFE…LEE'S SUMMIT CARES: $15,500 · HealthLEE'S SUMMIT …PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $14,000 · HealthPARALYZED VET…JANUS OF SANTA CRUZ: $13,500 · HealthJANUS OF SANT…MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $8,000 · Health+2 more: $7,500 · HealthHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $131,000 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS …METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $36,500 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $31,000 · Crime & LegalBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $31,500 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $3,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $38,000 · Civil RightsCOLONIAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $4,500 · Civil Rights
Other$602,500Human Services$278,500Health$154,000Food & Nutrition$131,000Crime & Legal$67,500Arts & Culture$54,000Civil Rights$42,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $191,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $131,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES: $69,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $61,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $38,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $36,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $31,500 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $31,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetMonterey County Rape Crisis Center: $26,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $24,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $19,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $19,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $17,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPETS FOR LIFE INC: $16,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetLEE'S SUMMIT CARES: $15,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $14,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC: $14,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetJANUS OF SANTA CRUZ: $13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $10,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $9,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Volunteer Corps: $6,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $6,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HORIZON RANCH INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLONIAL COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE PROGRAM INC: $4,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCRITTERHOUSEKC: $4,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Hospice Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIORS' BEST FRIEND FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRIGHTFULLY SEWN INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJAMESTOWN-YORKTOWN FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOAR SPECIAL NEEDS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAKEMARY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE 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 COMPREHENSIVE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds PARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Oppenstein Brothers F…Jackson County Commun…The Sunderland Founda…The H & R Block Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…R a Long Foundation 6…William T Kemper Foun…Health Forward Founda…The Kansas City Royal…The Francis Family Fo…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO55.9× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Stern Elaine Feld Char Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stern Elaine Feld Char Tr. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Stern Elaine Feld Char Tr 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 84 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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