· Private foundation
The Baum 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $784k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATR KANSAS CITY | $284,000 |
| AMETHYST PLACE | $250,000 |
| SHEFFIELD PLACE | $250,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $247,166 |
| SYNERGY SERVICES | $200,000 |
| WECODEKC | $200,000 |
| VIBRANT HEALTH KC | $200,000 |
| EARLY START | $110,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $105,000 |
| DELASALLE EDUCATION CENTER | $100,000 |
| DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES | $100,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $100,000 |
| THE RABBIT HOLE | $100,000 |
| EMMANUEL FAMILY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $100,000 |
| GUADALUPE CENTERS | $75,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UIUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC6× · 2017–2024 · $893k · revenue +26%
- DLDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $800k · revenue +33%
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC6× · 2017–2024 · $694k · revenue +23%
Funded once
TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +41%
SURGE INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +46%- TTTURN THE PAGE KC INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +54%
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.
To advance literacy within the kansas city metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.
The full employment council is a business-led, private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to obtain public and private sector employment for the unemployed and underemployed residents of the greater kansas city area.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
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.
Our mission is to provide high quality, educational programs while actively engaging and challenging students to enjoy learning. we work to support urban core neighborhoods by offering and developing quality educational programs.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
To accelerate growth in the region's prosperity and quality of life for all by strategically deploying the personal and corporate resources, influence and expertise of the region's business and civic leaders.
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
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.
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.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
We are a nonprofit organization that specializes in codesign research between education technology companies and schools. we match parents, learners and educators with edtech developers to inform, develop, and evaluate the next generation…
How this is measured
63 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. 63 of the 94 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 UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds WECODE KC ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MINDDRIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MO ↗
- Who funds DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds SURGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LEAD TO READ INC ↗
- Who funds TURN THE PAGE KC INC ↗
- Who funds BE GREAT TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds No Divide KC ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City 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 · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Curry Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Shumaker Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Baum Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Baum Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Uncornered Inc: 24% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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