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The Granary Foundation at a glance

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The Granary Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$413k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$303kHuman Services$94kInternational$37kCommunity Improvement$29kHealth$26kPhilanthropy$20kYouth Development$19kArts & Culture$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$31,666
Median grant
1
States reached
$216k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UMKC Foundation$250,000
Charles & Elizabeth Schellhorn Private$81,666
Teachers Like Me$31,666
Black Community Fund$20,000
Hispanic Development Fund$20,000
American Jazz Museum$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FRIENDS OF INDIA NETWORK: $8k → 12%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INC: $10k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $4k → 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.
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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 4 repeat orgs$447k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +196% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$126k
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+196%
+27%

Still filing today

75%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 10% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $372k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • TL
    TEACHERS LIKE ME
    3× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +782%
  • UV
    Uzazi Village
    3× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +196%
  • AJ
    AMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM
    2× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $13k
  • MV
    MISSION VISION PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +244%
  • HA
    HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
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
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
2
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc

Junior achievement accelerates economic opportunity and mobility for youth through cross-sector collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that improve educational and economic outcomes for students.

International
3
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
4
Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc

In a world where zip codes can predict outcomes, prep-kc ignites potential by bringing educators and industry professionals together to build paths to meaningful careers for students across the heart of bistate kansas city.

Education
5
Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…

Science & Tech
6
Black Archives of Mid-America Inc

The Mission of The Black Archives of Mid-America is to collect, preserve and make available to the public materials documenting the social, economic, political and cultural histories of persons of African descent in the Central United…

Education
7
Kairos Academies Vanguard

Kairos Vanguard's mission is to support education reform in the United States.

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8
Urban Neighborhood Initiative Inc

Unis mission is to partner with kansas citys urban core neighborhoods to bring business, government, and community organizations together to improve prosperity, health, safety & education in the community.

Community Improvement
9
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
10
Kairospdx

Kairospdx's singularly focused mission is to close the racial achievement and opportunity gaps by cultivating confident, creative, compassionate leaders exceeding academic standards at each developmental milestone from ages 0-10.

Education
11
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

KU Hillel's mission is to connect Jewish students to each other and to their Judaism, to inspire and equip the next generation of Jewish leaders, and to build a thriving Jewish community on campus.

—
12
Elevate Metro Kc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Friends of India Network. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UMKC FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATIONMISSION VISION PROJECT: $9,611 · Education+1 more: $4,525 · EducationCharles & Elizabeth Schellhorn Private: $81,666 · OtherCharles & Elizabeth Schellhorn Priv…FRIENDS OF INDIA NETWORK: $36,666 · OtherFRIENDS OF INDIA NETWORKBlack Community Fund: $20,000 · OtherBlack Community FundHispanic Development Fund: $20,000 · OtherHispanic Development FundIndividual grant recipient: $12,872 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST PAULS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $9,050 · OtherTEACHERS LIKE ME: $48,767 · Youth DevelopmentTEACHERS LI…GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS…Uzazi Village: $25,922 · HealthHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $9,611 · Human ServicesFriends of India Network: $8,101 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $4,050 · Human ServicesAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM: $14,525 · Arts & CultureFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $9,000 · Community Improvement
Education$264,136Other$180,254Youth Development$57,767Health$25,922Human Services$21,762Arts & Culture$14,525Community Improvement$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEACHERS LIKE ME: $48,767 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetUzazi Village: $25,922 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM: $14,525 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION VISION PROJECT: $9,611 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $9,611 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFriends of India Network: $8,101 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $4,050 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Shumaker Family F…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…The Sosland FoundationThe Sherman Family Fo…R a Long Foundation 6…Marion and Henry Bloc…Menorah Heritage Foun…Buttonwood Foundation…The Kansas City Royal…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO26.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sosland Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Buttonwood Foundation Charitable Tr · The Kansas City Royals Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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