· Private foundation
The Deramus Foundation Inc
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.
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 $10k7 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $212k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $470k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| David Horowitz Freedom Center | $120,000 |
| Kansas Policy Institute | $100,000 |
| Freedom Alliance Foundation | $100,000 |
| Kansas City Healing Project | $50,000 |
| Capital Research Center | $50,000 |
| Children's Mercy Hospital | $50,000 |
| Queen of the Holy Rosarch School | $40,000 |
| Starlight Theatre | $25,000 |
| St Martin Academy | $25,000 |
| FLCCC Independent Medical Alliance | $25,000 |
| Independence Institute | $25,000 |
| Queen of the Holy Rosary Church | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,978 |
| Washburn University Foundation | $10,000 |
| America First Legal Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $124k 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
- DHDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $845k · revenue +46%
- KPKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +135%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital7× · 2017–2024 · $325k · revenue +67%
Funded once
GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +196%
FREEDOM ALLIANCEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +112%- MMRIGlobalone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -10%
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.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
Allbritton journalism institute aims to train a new generation of non-partisan political reporters from diverse backgrounds to produce high-quality, fact-based journalism.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America First Policy Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Elevate Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 94 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 DAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SRQ HEALING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CONSTITUTING AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MRIGlobal ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds LUCY BURNS INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MAJORITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT MEDICAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SENTINEL INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds KANSAS SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The Dunn Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · John N & Marilyn P McConnell Charitable Foundation Inc · The Henkes Foundation · John P & Kathryn G Evans Foundation · Mark H and Blanche M Harrington Foundation · Farrell Family Foundation · Adolph Coors 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 Deramus Foundation Inc 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.
- Aha Foundation Inc — 42% of income from government
- Whole Family Health Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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