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The Baum Family 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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$284k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$4.5MYouth Development$1.6MHuman Services$1.0MInternational$895kEmployment$808kPhilanthropy$529kHealth$475kCommunity Improvement$331kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $784k
$75,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATR KANSAS CITY$284,000
SHEFFIELD PLACE$250,000
AMETHYST PLACE$250,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$247,166
VIBRANT HEALTH KC$200,000
WECODEKC$200,000
SYNERGY SERVICES$200,000
EARLY START$110,000
Individual grant recipient$105,000
THE RABBIT HOLE$100,000
DELASALLE EDUCATION CENTER$100,000
DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$100,000
EMMANUEL FAMILY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$100,000
GUADALUPE CENTERS$75,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Kansas Action for Children: $500 → 14%SYNERGY SERVICES: $200k → 8%Synergy Services: $50k → 8%LEAD TO READ: $50k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $75k → 5%UNCORNERED: $2k → 16%PAWSPERITY: $500 → 15%ADHOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $15k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES - ST MARKS: $425k → 15%United Inner City Services - St Marks: $125k → 15%United Inner City Services - St Marks: $125k → 15%EARLY START: $110k → 15%EARLY START: $100k → 15%United Inner City Services: $8k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $125k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $75k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $75k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $75k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTERS: $75k → 15%Urban League of Kansas City: $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

MN
IL
MA
NJ
CA
CO
MO
KS
NC

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.5M · 38 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
43

Total granted

$8.5M
$827k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+22%

Still filing today

66%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • UI
    UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $893k · revenue +26%
  • DL
    DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER
    7× · 2018–2024 · $800k · revenue +33%
  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $694k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +41%
  • TT
    TURN THE PAGE KC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +54%
  • SURGE INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +46%

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
Literacy Kansas City

To advance literacy within the kansas city metropolitan area through direct services, advocacy, and collaboration.

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2
Full Employment Council Inc

The full employment council is a business-led, private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to obtain public and private sector employment for the unemployed and underemployed residents of the greater kansas city area.

Crime & Legal
3
Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment
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.

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5
Upper Room Kc

Our mission is to provide high quality, educational programs while actively engaging and challenging students to enjoy learning. we work to support urban core neighborhoods by offering and developing quality educational programs.

Recreation & Sports
6
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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7
The Civic Council of Greater Kansas City

To accelerate growth in the region's prosperity and quality of life for all by strategically deploying the personal and corporate resources, influence and expertise of the region's business and civic leaders.

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8
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
9
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.

Arts & Culture
10
Mo Kan 2020 Vision Inc

The mission of 20/20 leadership is to provide high school students unique experiential learning opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom, develop resilient leaders, and build stronger communities.

Youth Development
11
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
12
The Lean Lab Inc Lean Lab Education

We are a nonprofit organization that specializes in codesign research between education technology companies and schools. we match parents, learners and educators with edtech developers to inform, develop, and evaluate the next generation…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Be Great Together and the most unlike its peers is Global Warriors-Powered By Love. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHomeless & Vulnerable Servi…Youth Development Organizat…Higher Education SupportInternational Development A…Animal Shelter and RescuePerforming Arts Organizatio…Regional Business Developme…Food Access & Urban Agricul…Kansas City Charter and Ind…Healthcare Systems and Dise…Youth Academic Achievement
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr12%14%5–10yr16%23%10–20yr15%19%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr23%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%10%5–10yr16%14%10–20yr15%18%20–35yr15%34%35–55yr23%25%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/65
the rest of the field
12%
1,160/9,301

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

63 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. 63 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
38/63
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KC Public Schools Educational Foundation — $976,719 · OtherKC Public Schools Educational FoundationDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER — $800,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTERBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATR KANSAS CITY — $787,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATR KANSAS CITYThe Grooming Project — $505,000 · OtherThe Grooming ProjectEMMANUEL FAMILY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $200,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INC — $200,000 · OtherEarly Childhood Education Access FUnd — $200,000 · OtherVIBRANT HEALTH KC — $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $187,500 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $250,000 · OtherSHEFFIELD PLACE — $250,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $200,000 · Other+43 more — $865,750 · Other+43 moreUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $892,500 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CITY …GUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $300,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE CENTERS …SYNERGY SERVICES INC — $250,000 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVICES I…URBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MO — $126,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEAGUE OF KA…LEAD TO READ INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesLEAD TO READ INCJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $75,000 · Human Services+5 more — $18,500 · Human ServicesOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $694,166 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTH…GREAT JOBS KC INC — $305,500 · EducationGREAT JOBS KC INCMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED — $200,000 · EducationMINDDRIVE INCORPO…TURN THE PAGE KC INC — $100,000 · EducationTURN THE PAGE KC …SURGE INSTITUTE — $100,000 · EducationSURGE INSTITUTEBE GREAT TOGETHER — $95,000 · EducationBE GREAT TOGETHERPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC — $65,107 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $63,500 · Education+8 more — $81,900 · EducationGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $428,750 · PhilanthropyDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES — $100,000 · PhilanthropyWECODE KC — $500,000 · Employment+1 more — $2,500 · EmploymentAmethyst Place Inc — $250,000 · HealthTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $150,000 · Health+4 more — $4,250 · HealthBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $266,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEACHERS LIKE ME — $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,622,469Human Services$1,762,000Education$1,705,173Philanthropy$528,750Employment$502,500Health$404,250Youth Development$316,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $892,500 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER — $800,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $694,166 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWECODE KC — $500,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $428,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT JOBS KC INC — $305,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $300,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $266,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE — $250,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC — $200,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED — $200,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY MO — $126,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC — $100,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTURN THE PAGE KC INC — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSURGE INSTITUTE — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBE GREAT TOGETHER — $95,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC — $65,107 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY — $63,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $59,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNo Divide KC — $55,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc — $54,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTEACHERS LIKE ME — $50,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGRANDPARENTS FOR GUN SAFETY — $20,000 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDEEP ROOTS KC INC — $15,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCONNECTING FOR GOOD — $12,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCIPALSCONNECT — $6,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBRIDGING THE GAP INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE LEADERSHIP — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUMKC TRUSTEES — $3,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGreen Works In Kansas City — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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…United Way of Greater…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Francis Family Fo…Health Forward Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…Jackson County Commun…The Sherman Family Fo…The Kansas City Royal…The Curry Family Foun…William T Kemper Foun…The Shumaker Family F…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO65.8× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Curry Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Shumaker Family 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 Baum Family 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
25report 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 Baum Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Baum Family 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 94 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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