· Private foundation
Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC | $60,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA | $40,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| WELCOME HOUSE INC | $30,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $30,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY | $15,000 |
| FOOTPRINTS INC | $10,000 |
| WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $10,000 |
| MT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORP | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL FDN DENTISTRY FOR HANDICAPPED | $10,000 |
| THEATRE FOR YOUNG AMERICA INC | $7,500 |
| BAND OF ANGELS CORP | $5,000 |
| RESTORATION HOUSE OF GREAT0R KC | $5,000 |
| MISSION PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| ARTISTS HELPING THE HOMELESS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $672k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SKSupport Kansas City Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $495k · revenue +32%
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS9× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +23%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC6× · 2018–2025 · $220k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY IN KANSASone grant, 2020 · $50k
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OFone grant, 2017 · $35k
- WMWATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -12% · 43% of their budget
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.
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.
The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
The mission of 20/20 leadership is to provide high school students unique experiential learning opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom, develop resilient leaders, and build stronger communities.
Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Building long-term, life-changing relationships with youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.
To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.
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.
Providing innovative research, message guidance, communication training, communication expertise,and collaborative strategies to aligned organizations to grow their capacity and improve collaborationand coordination among partner groups in…
Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc assists veterans, low-income families, seniors, and people with disabilities in eliminating unsafe and deplorable living conditions.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Support Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOTPRINTS INC ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds SLEEPYHEAD BEDS ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds JOBONE ↗
- Who funds Green Works In Kansas City ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds THEATRE FOR YOUNG AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Youth Volunteer Corps ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds TURN THE PAGE KC INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Public Square Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF LIFE INC ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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