· Private foundation
Tantillo Family Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY | $20,000 |
| TOPEKA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $20,000 |
| RECONCILIATION SERVICES - THELMA'S KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY LINC INC | $15,000 |
| THE AIDAN PROJECT | $10,000 |
| INCLUSION CONNECTIONS PAWSABILITIES | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| BAND OF ANGELS CORP | $5,500 |
| KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC | $5,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $5,000 |
| FOSTERING CONNECTIONS | $5,000 |
| HOPE FAITH HOMELESS ASSISTANCE CAMPUS | $5,000 |
| KS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER | $5,000 |
| HAPPY BOTTOMS | $5,000 |
| HARVESTERS THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $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 (FY21–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +67%
- THTOPEKA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY7× · 2019–2025 · $141k · revenue +46%
- CKCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $47k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- KEKU ENDOWMENTone grant, 2019 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
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.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Provide support for mennonite housing rehabilitation services, inc., which provides low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with ownership opportunities and the…
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Shook Hardy & Bacon Foundation. 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 20 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger 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 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 38 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE AIDAN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BAND OF ANGELS CORP ↗
- Who funds Tantillo Adaptive Sailing Foundation ↗
- Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE MISSION MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERING CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
- Who funds The Whole Person Inc ↗
- Who funds SHOOK HARDY & BACON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Nichols Company Charitable Trust · Greater Horizons
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 Tantillo Family 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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