· Public charity
The Bicknell Family Foundation
Organized to provide funding for charitable organizations
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Bicknell Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Bicknell Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $930k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $929,833 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,051,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $121,667 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $333,333 |
| THE GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND BIOSCIENCES | $100,000 |
| HALO FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SHATTERPROOF | $40,000 |
| VICTORY LIFE CHURCH | $30,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $25,000 |
| CITY YEAR KANSAS CITY | $25,000 |
| ST MARTINS ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $25,000 |
| FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDAITON OF SOUTHEAST KANSAS | $14,000 |
| BRADEN'S HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC | $10,000 |
| NORTH POINT CHURCH | $10,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 66% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
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The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…
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…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
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Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is St Martin's Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 18 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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Servant Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds HALO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN CRIME COMMISSION ↗
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: Servant Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Hunt Family Foundation · The Patterson Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · United Way of Bergen County
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 Bicknell 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
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.
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