· Public charity
The Children's Mercy Hospital
Children's Mercy is a leading independent children's health organization dedicated to holistic care, translational research, breakthrough innovation, and educating the next generation of caregivers.
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.
The 75 grants below total $19,446,076 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $156,774,759 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $137,328,683 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $89k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $682k
- $50k–250k27 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPH LLC | $15,117,565 |
| KUMC Research Institute Inc | $476,984 |
| Westside Housing Organization | $246,903 |
| H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center And Research Institute Inc | $225,804 |
| San Diego State University Foundation | $216,436 |
| UMKC KCUR Health Sci Bookst MMRRC RRRC Sheldon Casgsl | $216,321 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | $185,117 |
| Duke University | $184,888 |
| Boston Children's Hospital Children's Hospital Corp | $160,764 |
| University of Illinois | $148,297 |
| Stowers Institute for Medical Research | $136,588 |
| KUCR University of Kansas Center For Research Inc | $123,299 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $113,818 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Kansas City | $110,000 |
| Oxford University Press | $98,967 |
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 (FY20–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
82 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 14 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, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15M 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE8× · 2018–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +102%
DUKE UNIVERSITY8× · 2018–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +41%- MVMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TGTHE GREENLINE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $200k
- CCChips Chocolate Factory KC FUDone grant, 2019 · $98k
- ACAdventhealth Centra Careone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Medical Center and the most unlike its peers is The Greenline Foundation Inc. 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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% 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.
107 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. 107 of the 148 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 UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds Albert Einstein College of Medicine ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
- Who funds CHANCELLOR MASTERS & SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CHILDREN'S HOSPITALS AND RELATED INSTITUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE HOUSING ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE GREENLINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
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: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Menorah Heritage 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 Children's Mercy Hospital 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.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% 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.