· Private foundation
The Ingram 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY | $50,000 |
| HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES | $30,000 |
| UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC & DANCE | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET | $10,000 |
| HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE | $5,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $5,000 |
| QUALITY HILL PLAYHOUSE | $5,000 |
| THE COTERIE THEATRE | $2,000 |
| KANSAS CITY CHORALE | $2,000 |
| FOLLY THEATER | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- LOLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $321k · revenue +25%
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY6× · 2018–2023 · $45k · revenue +23%
- KCKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION6× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- LOLYRIC OPERA RESIDENT ARTIST PROGRAMone grant, 2020 · $6k
- TPTURNING POINTone grant, 2019 · $500
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 City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…
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.
Music theatre wichita advances the musical theatre art form by educating and nurturing creators, artists and audiences, primarily through the production of broadway-caliber shows.
To enrich the lives of everyone in our community through extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences. these experiences are provided through programs, customer service, and education.(continued on schedule o)programs: showcase a…
Spire Chamber Ensemble inspires educates and enriches the Kansas City metropolitan community through the transformational power of choral music performed at the highest artistic level.
Providing innovative works of one act and chamber operas for the public at large, and free or low cost performances for schools and nursing homes.
The Kansas City Jazz Orchestra is dedicated to promoting the rich culture of Kansas City through performance and education. We strive to be a leading voice, ensuring that Kansas City's influential jazz tradition continues to thrive and…
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Classical Theatre Company is dedicated to boldly re-envisioning classical drama on the stage, in the community, and in the classroom through engaging and enlightening plays that bring them new life and relevance while maintaining the…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Union Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COTERIE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SPINNING TREE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE ↗
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: Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · The Francis Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Theater League Inc · Miller-Mellor Association · John and Bernice Hamra Foundation · Copaken Family Foundation · The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation · Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City · Miller Nichols Charitable 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 Ingram 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.
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.