· Private foundation
The H & R Block Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
The 83 grants below total $2,545,067 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,978,944 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $433,877 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k48 grants · $97k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $255k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $703k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Kansas City Community Foundation | $453,000 |
| Greater Kansas City Community Foundation | $250,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER KANSAS CITY INC | $150,000 |
| RESTART, INC | $150,000 |
| BOYS GROW CORP | $120,000 |
| UMKC FOUNDATION | $109,675 |
| Community Linc | $100,000 |
| THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| The Children's Place | $100,000 |
| Kansas City Museum Foundation, Inc | $100,000 |
| BAPTIST TRINITY LUTHERAN LEGACY FDN | $76,000 |
| CENTER FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION | $75,000 |
| PROMISE JEWELS INC | $70,000 |
| Greater Kansas City Community Foundation | $65,000 |
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre | $65,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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 +54% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
119 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2023, 93 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k 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
- UFUMKC FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +278%
- UNURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC2× · 2020–2021 · $517k · revenue +83%
- DCDonnelly College5× · 2017–2023 · $358k · revenue +166%
Funded once
- HWHENRY WOLLMAN BLOCH FOUNTAIN FUND AT THE GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNone grant, 2017 · $150k
- KCKansas City Regional COVID-19 Fund at GKCCFone grant, 2021 · $150k
- KCKansas City Regional COVID-19 Response and Recoverone grant, 2020 · $130k
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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…
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
Provide high quality living and services to enable lower income older adult residents of the managed apartment buildings to flourish independently; and create inspiring programming to enable both residents and community seniors to maintain…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ouray Mountain Rescue Team Inc. 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 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
278 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. 278 of the 418 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Community College Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS GROW CORP ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds KVC HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds AcruxKC ↗
- Who funds THE LAUNCHCODE 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: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Sunderland Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Sherman 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 H & R Block 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.
- Noah Webster House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Compass Youth Collaborative — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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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