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The Danajames Kids Foundation at a glance

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The Danajames Kids Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$127k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$112kReligion$108kHealth$93kEducation$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$36kHousing & Shelter$31kAnimals$31kFood & Nutrition$30kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST ANDREW'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$25,000
UMKC LAW FOUNDATION$25,000
KIDS AND CARS INC$10,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM$10,000
THE CHILDREN'S PLACE$10,000
WAYSIDE WAIFS$10,000
BELTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
FIND FOOD BANK$5,000
HARVESTERS$5,000
LILY'S HOUSE$5,000
WELCOME HOUSE INC$5,000
MILITARY MATTERS FBO KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION$5,000
ELMWOOD CEMETERY SOCIETY$2,500
UMKC FOUNDATION$2,500
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ANGEL FLIGHT: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
KS
NC
DC
OK
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$454k · 19 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
22

Total granted

$454k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+28%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
EducationHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
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

  • KA
    KIDS AND CARS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $36k · revenue +282%
  • TL
    THE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY
    2× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +228%
  • WW
    WAYSIDE WAIFS INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $31k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • TW
    The Whole Person Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -9%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • BF
    Be Free KC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -34%
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
Dui Victims Center of Kansas Inc

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

Education
2
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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3
Brain Injury Assn of Ks & Greater Kc

To provide ongoing brain injury advocacy, education and resources

Health
4
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

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…

Philanthropy
5
The Chicago Bar Foundation

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.

Education
6
Kansas Bar Foundation

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…

Crime & Legal
7
Kansas Food Bank Foundation Inc

To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.

Food & Nutrition
8
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
9
Kansas Action for Children Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Legal Aid of Western Missouri

To improve the lives of those in need through quality legal assistance.

Crime & Legal
11
Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas

The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.

Philanthropy
12
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST ANDREWS CHURCH KANSAS CITY: $90,000 · OtherST ANDREWS CHURCH KANSAS CITYUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM: $48,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $35,000 · OtherTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITYCHRISTMAS PRESENT INC: $17,000 · OtherCHRISTMAS PRESENT INCHIGHLAND PARK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $12,500 · Other+30 more: $103,735 · Other+30 moreTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $57,225 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'…KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Crime & LegalKANSAS CITY M…BELTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $23,500 · EducationBELTON EDUCA…OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $15,000 · EducationOPERATION BR…UMKC FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationUMKC FOUNDAT…Keep The Spark Alive Inc: $5,000 · EducationKeep The Spa…KIDS AND CARS INC: $36,000 · Public Safety & DisasterWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $30,500 · AnimalsHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15,500 · Public Benefit
Other$306,435Crime & Legal$62,225Education$58,500Public Safety & Disaster$36,000Animals$30,500Food & Nutrition$30,000Public Benefit$15,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $57,225 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS AND CARS INC: $36,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetTHE LAW FOUNDATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY: $35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWAYSIDE WAIFS INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBELTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $23,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Whole Person Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWelcome House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLILYS HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKeep The Spark Alive Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF TRIAL LAWYERS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF BARRISTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOURI COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Constance M Cooper Ch…Greater Kansas City C…William T Kemper Foun…Jewish Community Foun…The Sunderland Founda…The Curry Family Foun…Marion and Henry Bloc…Health Forward Founda…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…
Constance M Cooper Charitable FoundationKS15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Danajames Kids Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Danajames Kids Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Danajames Kids Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Danajames Kids Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 46 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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