Missouri · Private foundation
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations The Debruce Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $215k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $274k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $944k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $758k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $338k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City Art Institute | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Umkc Foundation | $303,661 | 4 | 0% |
| The Eisenhower Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Rockhurst University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Umkc Trustees | $52,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Wild Salmon Center | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Boys Club of Greater Kansas City | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kansas City Symphony | $37,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Show-Me Institute | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($837k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Debruce Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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.
About The Debruce Foundation
- How much does The Debruce Foundation give?
- The Debruce Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $225,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does The Debruce Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (39%), Arts & Culture (21%), Education (17%).
- Who are The Debruce Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Kansas City Art Institute ($500k), Umkc Foundation ($304k), The Eisenhower Foundation ($200k).
- Does The Debruce Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Debruce Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Debruce Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
- Where is The Debruce Foundation based?
- The Debruce Foundation is based in MO.
Play a game based on Debruce’s filings →