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The H & R Block Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The H & R Block Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2023
83
Grants FY2023
17
States reached
$453k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.8MArts & Culture$1.9MPhilanthropy$1.6MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.1MHousing & Shelter$850kCrime & Legal$432kOther$0
02FY2023 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 83 grants below total $2,545,067, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,978,944 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $433,877 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k48 grants · $97k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $255k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $703k
$5,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation$453,000
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation$250,000
RESTART, INC$150,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER KANSAS CITY INC$150,000
BOYS GROW CORP$120,000
UMKC FOUNDATION$109,675
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY$100,000
The Children's Place$100,000
Kansas City Museum Foundation, Inc$100,000
Community Linc$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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Platte Senior Services Inc: $25k → 8%Rhode Island Dream Center: $8k → 14%Lead to Read: $27k → 8%FOSTERADOPT CONNECT: $17k → 15%LEAD TO READ: $23k → 8%LEAD TO READ: $10k → 8%FOSTERADOPT CONNECT: $8k → 15%The Family Conservancy: $100k → 16%LEAD TO READ: $3k → 8%HOPE CENTER INC: $5k → 15%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $35k → 16%LEAD TO READ: $3k → 8%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $35k → 16%AVENUE OF LIFE INC: $25k → 16%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $43k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $25k → 5%Center of Grace: $25k → 5%Safehome Inc: $23k → 5%TNC COMMUNITY: $25k → 15%SAFEHOME INC: $13k → 5%Marlborough Community Coalition: $40k → 15%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $20k → 15%TNC COMMUNITY: $6k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $25k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $25k → 15%Erin Andra Wilson Foundation: $668 → 15%ERIN ANDRA WILSON FOUNDATION: $400 → 15%MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION: $38k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $30k → 15%GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $7k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES: $3k → 15%HEALING HOUSE INC: $40k → 15%REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER: $25k → 15%MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION: $25k → 15%MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION: $15k → 15%MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION: $10k → 15%Mid America Assistance Coalition: $10k → 15%MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION: $10k → 15%Youth Volunteer Corps: $25k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $25k → 15%DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURES: $10k → 15%DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURES: $10k → 15%GREATER KC LINC INC: $10k → 15%Guadalupe Center Inc: $50k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $50k → 15%True Light Family Resource Center: $25k → 15%Soul of Santa Do Good Foundation: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 119 repeat orgs$4.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +50% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119
257

Total granted

$8.0M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+50%

Still filing today

73%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $504k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • UF
    UMKC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +278%
  • UN
    URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $517k · revenue +83%
  • DC
    Donnelly College
    5× · 2017–2023 · $358k · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • HW
    HENRY WOLLMAN BLOCH FOUNTAIN FUND AT THE GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUN
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • KC
    Kansas City Regional COVID-19 Fund at GKCCF
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • KC
    Kansas City Regional COVID-19 Response and Recover
    one grant, 2020 · $130k
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
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
3
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.

—
4
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education
7
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.

—
8
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
9
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
10
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement
11
Council Apartments Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Council Apartments Ii Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

278 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
102
Early backer (in before they grew)
272/278
Grantees still filing
219/278
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $725,264 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansas City IncEARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION ACCESS FUND AT THE GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY: $200,000 · OtherLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION - LISC: $200,000 · Other+111 more: $4,304,860 · Other+111 moreUMKC FOUNDATION: $1,004,660 · EducationUMKC FOUNDATIONDonnelly College: $357,925 · EducationDonnelly CollegeMetropolitan Community College Foundation: $196,055 · EducationMetropolitan Commun…KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $105,650 · EducationTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Education+17 more: $462,250 · Education+17 moreMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $295,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN…UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $173,000 · Arts & CultureUNION STATIO…KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $149,700 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY …KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $101,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY …KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY …LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $81,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA …KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $73,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $67,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $50,200 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $242,800 · Arts & Culture+10 moreTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY…GUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE …MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION: $81,000 · Human ServicesMID AMERIC…MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $77,900 · Human ServicesMARLBOROUG…KC Healthy Kids: $70,000 · Human ServicesKC Healthy…LEAD TO READ INC: $64,600 · Human ServicesLEAD TO RE…Youth Volunteer Corps: $50,000 · Human ServicesSLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $50,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $43,000 · Human ServicesHEALING HOUSE INC: $40,000 · Human Services+15 more: $354,200 · Human Services+15 moreRESTART INC: $350,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINC: $176,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $170,000 · Housing & ShelterRIVER OF REFUGE: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterOIKOS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $50,000 · Housing & Shelter+5 more: $122,500 · Housing & ShelterGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $828,700 · Philanthropy+2 more: $27,500 · PhilanthropyURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $516,500 · Community ImprovementMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementMORNINGSTAR'S DEVELOPMENT COMPANYINC: $30,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $40,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,430,124Education$2,201,540Arts & Culture$1,448,200Human Services$1,130,700Housing & Shelter$938,500Philanthropy$856,200Community Improvement$621,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $1,004,660 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $828,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $725,264 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $516,500 over 2y, 24% of budgetDonnelly College: $357,925 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetRESTART INC: $350,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $295,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMetropolitan Community College Foundation: $196,055 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC: $176,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $173,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $170,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $149,700 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP: $145,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $130,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC: $120,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $118,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $105,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $101,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $100,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH COUNCIL OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKVC HOSPITALS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $81,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION: $81,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $80,300 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $77,900 over 3y, 30% of budgetAcruxKC: $76,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCenter for Conflict Resolution: $75,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $73,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetRIVER OF REFUGE: $70,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetKC Healthy Kids: $70,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $67,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $65,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRediscover: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEAD TO READ INC: $64,600 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $61,350 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $61,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY: $60,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST: $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $53,800 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $50,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetDeveloping Potential Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetShow Me KC Schools Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

United Way of Greater…Health Forward Founda…Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Oppenstein Brothers F…Menorah Heritage Foun…William T Kemper Foun…Marion and Henry Bloc…R a Long Foundation 6…The Sunderland Founda…Jewish Community Foun…The Sherman Family Fo…
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO153.9× affinity91 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
85report 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
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.
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How do I get to The H & R Block Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The H & R Block 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 418 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $3.0M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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