· Private foundation
Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust
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 $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 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $30,000 |
| WELCOME HOUSE INC | $30,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF HAMILTON COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| GILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY | $15,000 |
| MT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORP | $10,000 |
| FOOTPRINTS INC | $10,000 |
| WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL FDN DENTISTRY FOR HANDICAPPED | $10,000 |
| THEATRE FOR YOUNG AMERICA INC | $7,500 |
| BAND OF ANGELS CORP | $5,000 |
| KANSAS CITY FARM SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| GIFT OF LIFE INC | $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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
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
- 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
- LKLITERACY KANSAS CITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +310%
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mission Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connecting for Good. 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 28 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 48 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 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 LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Volunteer Corps ↗
- Who funds TURN THE PAGE KC INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds American Public Square Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CHORUS OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS HELPING THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
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 · 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
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 Taylor & Patti Abernathy Charitable Trust 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.