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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PREPKC$125,000
BIONEXUS KC$100,000
URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DOWNTOWN COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 6 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$2.8M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+148%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationScience & TechSocial ScienceCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BK
    BIONEXUS KC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +34%
  • PF
    PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +113%
  • TB
    THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
    3× · 2017–2019 · $225k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • DC
    DOWNTOWN COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY
    one grant, 2019 · $75k
  • DK
    DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +148%
  • SS
    SCHOOL SMART KC INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -45%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Bioscience & Technology Business Center Inc

The organization's mission is to create, recruit, grow and retain technology and bioscience businesses in northeast kansas with the ultimate vision to build a more modern, resilient and diverse regional economy.

Community Improvement
2
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.

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3
Kansas City Smartport Inc

Kc smartport is a non-profit economic development organization that works to attract freight-based companies, such as manufacturing, distribution and warehouses, to the 18 county, bi-state kansas city region.

Community Improvement
4
Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation

Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…

Education
5
Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City

To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.

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6
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City Foundation

The chamber of commerce of greater kansas city foundation's mission is to invest in solutions that empower current and future generations in the kansas city community. the foundation is organized and operated exclusively for exempt…

Philanthropy
7
Kansas Council On Economic Education

The vision of the kcee is that every k-12 student in kansas will become economically and financially literate. in order to reach as many students as possible, the mission of the kcee is to equip teachers to teach economics and personal…

Social Science
8
Bike Walk Kc

Bike walk kc's mission is to redefine our streets as places for people to build a culture of active living. our vision is a greater kansas city where everyone moves through the city and its public spaces equitably, safely, comfortably, and…

Religion
9
Kansas City Local Organizing Committee

The kansas city local organizing committee is dedicated to serving as the steward of civic engagement and cultural celeration for the greater kansas city community. as fiscal agent and organizing body, our mission is to responsibly plan,…

Arts & Culture
10
Council of the Great City Schools

See schedule o, page 45.founded in 1956 and incorporated in 1961, the purpose of the council of the great city schools (the council) is to represent the needs, challenges, and successes of major-city public school districts and their…

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11
Kc People's Fund
Philanthropy
12
Kc Digital Drive Inc

Kc digital drive's (kcdd) mission is to make kansas city a digital leader to secure our economic prosperity and improve the quality of life for all people in the region.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School Smart Kc Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Brookings Institution. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIONEXUS KC: $1,250,000 · Science & TechBIONEXUS KCPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $1,000,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREP…UMKC FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: $225,000 · Social ScienceURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementDOWNTOWN COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY: $75,000 · OtherCHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $35,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURES: $25,000 · Human Services
Science & Tech$1,250,000Education$1,060,000Social Science$225,000Community Improvement$200,000Other$110,000Human Services$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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