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The Atterbury Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.5MArts & Culture$577kCrime & Legal$273kHuman Services$90kPublic Safety & Disaster$63kHealth$49kEnvironment$44kInternational$34kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$3,000
METRO ORG TO COUNTER SEXUAL ASSAULT$2,500
NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM$2,500
ROSE BROOKS CENTER$2,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$2,000
MADDIES MISSION$1,500
ABILITY KC$1,000
UMKC FOUNDATION UBRAN EDUCATION PLEDGE$1,000
BOTAR$1,000
CHILD PROTECTION CENTER$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EPEC: $2k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $2k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $6k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $3k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $3k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $1k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $1k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
OH
CA
MO
MD
KS
LA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 55 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
44

Total granted

$2.5M
$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+30%

Still filing today

64%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther

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

  • COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC
    4× · 2017–2022 · $476k · revenue +53%
  • PF
    POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $245k · revenue +217%
  • TH
    THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
    6× · 2017–2023 · $194k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • JH
    JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • KK
    KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -18%
  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS C
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education
2
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
3
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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6
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…

Education
9
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
10
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
11
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Save the Kc Neon Inc. 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 47 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%5%<5yr12%5%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr24%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%13%10–20yr15%2%20–35yr16%55%35–55yr24%29%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,421

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 105 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
49/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $505,000 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOLCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC — $476,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INCTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $194,020 · EducationTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTE…KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Education+12 more — $90,250 · Education+12 moreTHE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART — $294,980 · OtherTHE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ARTJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · OtherJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $62,750 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INCLINDA HALL LIBRARY — $52,500 · OtherLINDA HALL LIBRARYPOLICE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherPOLICE FOUNDATIONPLAZA ACADEMY — $30,000 · Other+56 more — $264,739 · Other+56 morePOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $245,000 · Crime & LegalPOLICE FOU…CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $10,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $3,500 · Crime & LegalTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $183,020 · Arts & CultureTHE NELSON…KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CIT…KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $13,000 · Arts & CultureJEWEL BALL — $8,700 · Arts & Culture+7 more — $19,000 · Arts & Culture+7 moreGUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $13,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $1,500 · Human ServicesSaint Lukes Foundation — $17,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC — $2,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $2,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $1,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY — $1,000 · HealthAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation — $1,000 · HealthNorthwestern University — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMPS FOR KIDS — $2,500 · Recreation & Sports
Education$1,315,270Other$854,969Crime & Legal$259,000Arts & Culture$248,720Human Services$31,000Health$25,500Recreation & Sports$22,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $505,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF NAPLES INC — $476,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $245,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $194,020 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $183,020 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $62,750 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetKAPPA KAPPA GAMMA FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLAZA ACADEMY — $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $23,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA — $21,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation — $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC — $16,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlam4Good Foundation — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCity Union Mission — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $5,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABILITY KC — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center — $3,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES — $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRESTART INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPS FOR KIDS — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKC CREATES INC — $2,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAYO CLINIC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ECONOMICS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health Care Inc — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAWSPERITY INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Jewish Community Foun…The H & R Block Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…William T Kemper Foun…Marion and Henry Bloc…The Sosland FoundationOppenstein Brothers F…The Francis Family Fo…The Sunderland Founda…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…Copaken Family Founda…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO61.2× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation

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 The Atterbury 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Atterbury Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Atterbury Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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