· Private foundation
The Danajames Kids Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMKC LAW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $25,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| WAYSIDE WAIFS | $10,000 |
| KIDS AND CARS INC | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $5,000 |
| LILY'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| BELTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WELCOME HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| MILITARY MATTERS FBO KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FIND FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| UMKC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +52% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- KAKIDS AND CARS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +282%
- TLTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY2× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +228%
- WWWAYSIDE WAIFS INC5× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- TWThe Whole Person Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KCKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +0%
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.
Reduce the impact an impaired driving crash has on victims, survivors and their families, and increase awareness of the traumatic human consequences of the choice to drive impaired
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
To provide ongoing brain injury advocacy, education and resources
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…
The chicago bar foundation brings the legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make the legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
To serve the citizens of kansas and the legal profession through funding charitable and educational projects that foster the welfare, honor and integrity of the legal system by improving its accessibility, equality and uniformity, by…
To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
To improve the lives of those in need through quality legal assistance.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Food in Need of Distribution 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 42 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 46 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 THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS AND CARS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds BELTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Whole Person Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC ↗
- Who funds LILYS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Keep The Spark Alive Inc ↗
- Who funds Be Free KC ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds PHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds ELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING CHILDREN GROW INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS 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: Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Sunderland Foundation · The Curry Family Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Danajames Kids 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.
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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