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Missouri · Public charity

The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City

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.

$255k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$100,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving3$250k0%
FY20233$250k0%
FY20223$275k0%
FY20213$275k0%
FY20206$345k33%
FY20196$505k17%
FY20186$460k0%
FY20176$510kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.3MEducation$1.1MCommunity Improvement$310kSocial Science$225kHuman Services$25k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bionexus Kc$1,250,000917%
Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc$1,000,00099%
The Brookings Institution$225,00030%
Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc$200,00095%
Umkc Foundation$50,00020%
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City$35,00040%
Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures$25,00016%
School Smart Kc Inc$10,00010%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($75k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBionexus Kc: $1,250,000 over 9y, 17% of budgetPartnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc: $1,000,000 over 9y, 9.4% of budgetThe Brookings Institution: $225,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Neighborhood Initiative Inc: $200,000 over 9y, 5.1% of budgetUmkc Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City: $35,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Kansas City Civic Ventures: $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSchool Smart Kc Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The H & R Block Found…Health Forward Founda…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City

How much does The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City give?
The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City reported 3 grants totaling $255,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (44%), Education (37%), Community Improvement (11%).
Who are The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bionexus Kc ($1.3M), Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc ($1.0M), The Brookings Institution ($225k).
Does The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, The H & R Block Foundation.
Where is The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City based?
The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City is based in MO.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 9 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $277k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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