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The Debruce Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Housing & Shelter$1.6MArts & Culture$879kEducation$718kPublic Benefit$225kPhilanthropy$191kCommunity Improvement$173kEnvironment$86kYouth Development$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMKC$100,000
KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE$20,000
UMKC HENRY BLOCH SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT$10,000
FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE$10,000
SHOW-ME INSTITUTE$10,000
UMKC TRUSTEES$10,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAUAJC$10,000
KU ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION$7,500
JAZZOO - KANSAS CITY ZOO$5,000
NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY$5,000
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY$5,000
MOCSA$5,000
GICIA$4,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $10k → 15%LEAD TO READ KC: $1k → 15%LEAD TO READ KC: $1k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

NY
OR
CA
MO
KS
AR
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 38 repeat orgs$606k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
35

Total granted

$1.9M
$493k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+8%

Still filing today

76%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • TE
    The Eisenhower Foundation
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +197%
  • WILD SALMON CENTER
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +115%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $40k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • RU
    ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -10%
  • WF
    WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • BC
    BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
2
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
3
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…

Education
4
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

—
5
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
6
Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

—
7
Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc

The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…

Arts & Culture
8
Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation

To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.

Education
9
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
10
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.

—
11
Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education
12
North Kansas City Schools Education Foundation

Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library 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.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%2%<5yr12%5%5–10yr16%24%10–20yr15%17%20–35yr16%29%35–55yr24%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%1%5–10yr16%12%10–20yr15%3%20–35yr16%56%35–55yr24%28%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/46
the rest of the field
12%
4,544/39,445

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Eisenhower Foundation — $200,000 · OtherThe Eisenhower FoundationUMKC - DIGITAL SANDBOX — $200,000 · OtherUMKC - DIGITAL SANDBOXMISSOURI DEVELOPMENT FINANCE BOARD — $160,000 · OtherMISSOURI DEVELOPMENT FINANCE BOARDUMKC — $100,000 · OtherUMKCWOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $50,000 · OtherUNITED WAY — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherUMKC - KC STEM ALLIANCE — $50,000 · Other+41 more — $316,988 · Other+41 moreKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE — $500,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTEUMKC FOUNDATION — $303,661 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATIONROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITYUMKC TRUSTEES — $52,500 · Education+8 more — $83,000 · Education+8 moreKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $37,000 · Arts & CultureKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $16,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $7,500 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,500 · Arts & CultureJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $45,000 · PhilanthropySHOW-ME INSTITUTE — $30,000 · PhilanthropyOPES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyWILD SALMON CENTER — $50,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 · AnimalsBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC — $20,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $15,000 · Health
Other$1,176,988Education$1,039,161Arts & Culture$127,000Philanthropy$85,000Animals$60,000Youth Development$50,000Health$35,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE — $500,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION — $303,661 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUMKC TRUSTEES — $52,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY — $37,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSHOW-ME INSTITUTE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Public Square Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION — $13,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFIVE OAKS AG RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER INC — $10,350 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPES CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSCHOOL SMART KC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIVING GROVE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROSE SOCIETY — $7,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetAWESOME AMBITIONS — $7,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA — $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTURN THE PAGE KC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetECONOMIC CLUB OF KANSAS CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC — $2,020 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY — $1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR KANSAS CITY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…Jewish Community Foun…The H & R Block Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…J B Reynolds Foundati…Marion and Henry Bloc…The Sherman Family Fo…William T Kemper Foun…Oppenstein Brothers F…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…The Kansas City Royal…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO42× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · J B Reynolds Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals 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 Debruce 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Debruce Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Debruce 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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