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Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$292k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
23%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 15
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$6.1M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$262k44%
FY202413$246k23%
FY202313$256k8%
FY20228$290k25%
FY202112$240k8%
FY202013$235k54%
FY201914$231k29%
FY201815$233k67%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$639kHuman Services$579kHealth$535kInternational$220kEnvironment$95kHousing & Shelter$90kArts & Culture$65kEmployment$60kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Support Kansas City Inc$495,00084%
College of the Ozarks$244,70090%
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc$220,00064%
Welcome House Inc$211,00081%
Footprints Inc$125,00036%
Gilda's Club Kansas City$90,00083%
Restart Inc$85,00030%
Sleepyhead Beds$65,00043%
Lead to Read Inc$59,00063%
Jobone$50,00021%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($254k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSupport Kansas City Inc: $495,000 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $244,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Middle America Inc: $220,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetWelcome House Inc: $211,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFootprints Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetGilda's Club Kansas City: $90,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetRestart Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSleepyhead Beds: $65,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetLead to Read Inc: $59,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetJobone: $50,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGreen Works In Kansas City: $45,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetConnecting for Good: $35,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTheatre for Young America Inc: $27,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetThe Mission Project Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetWatkins Mill Association Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetLiteracy Kansas City: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetYouth Volunteer Corps: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetMidwest Innocence Project Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSchool of Economics Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Literacy Lab: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTurn the Page Kc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWomens Employment Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Public Square Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetYouth Chorus of Kansas City Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCornerstones of Care: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGift of Life Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCenter for Conflict Resolution: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKansas City Jazz Orchestra: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetValley Hope Association: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEarnest Shepherd Memorial Youth Ctr: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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 Community FoundationMO56.6× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sherman Family Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Health Forward Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · The Curry Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee

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.

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About Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust

How much does Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust give?
Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust reported 19 grants totaling $291,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Human Services (24%), Health (22%).
Who are Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Support Kansas City Inc ($495k), College of the Ozarks ($245k), Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc ($220k).
Does Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, The H & R Block Foundation.
Where is Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust based?
Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust is based in TX.

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 48 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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