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The Ingram Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$120k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$710kEducation$140kHuman Services$47kHousing & Shelter$24kFood & Nutrition$18kHealth$500
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGEHARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $30k → 8%HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $5k → 15%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGEHARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $30k → 8%HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $5k → 15%HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $30k → 8%HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $5k → 15%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGEHARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $30k → 8%HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE: $5k → 15%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGEHARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $25k → 8%HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $5k → 15%WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGEHARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $25k → 8%HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $5k → 15%UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE: $10k → 15%UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE: $10k → 15%UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC & DANCE: $10k → 15%UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE: $8k → 15%UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE: $5k → 15%UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE: $5k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY: $61k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY: $50k → 15%QUALITY HILL PLAYHOUSE: $20k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $10k → 15%LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY BALLET: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY BALLET: $8k → 15%LYRIC OPERA RESIDENT ARTIST PROGRAM: $6k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY BALLET: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY BALLET: $5k → 15%QUALITY HILL PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY BALLET: $5k → 15%QUALITY HILL PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 15%QUALITY HILL PLAYHOUSE: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $5k → 15%MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE: $8k → 15%MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE: $8k → 15%MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE: $8k → 15%MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE: $8k → 15%MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE: $6k → 15%STARLIGHT THEATRE: $8k → 15%KANSAS CITY BALLET: $10k → 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$903k · 22 repeat orgs$37k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
2

Total granted

$903k
$7k

Still filing today

77%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $321k · revenue +25%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY
    6× · 2018–2023 · $45k · revenue +23%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA RESIDENT ARTIST PROGRAM
    one grant, 2020 · $6k
  • TP
    TURNING POINT
    one grant, 2019 · $500
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 City Public Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Chamber Opera of Chicago
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3
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
4
Music Theatre Wichita

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Spire Chamber Ensemble

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Opera Kansas

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.

Arts & Culture
8
The Elysabeth Kleinhans Theatrical Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Kansas City Jazz Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Chicago Opera Theater

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.

Arts & Culture
11
Classical Theatre Company

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…

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Opera Association

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 25 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $321,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $45,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $43,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATIONMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC: $43,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INCQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS: $41,000 · Arts & CultureQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONSHARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $28,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $51,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreWILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGEHARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $140,000 · OtherWILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGEHARRIMAN-…UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC & DANCE: $47,500 · OtherUMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC & DA…THE SALAVATION ARMY: $47,000 · OtherTHE SALAVATION ARMYNELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $9,500 · Other+4 more: $20,500 · Other+4 moreCity Union Mission: $24,000 · Housing & ShelterHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $18,000 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$632,500Other$264,500Housing & Shelter$24,000Food & Nutrition$18,000

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 budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $321,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $43,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC: $43,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS: $41,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $28,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCity Union Mission: $24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $11,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COTERIE INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY CHORALE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKANSAS CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSPINNING TREE THEATRE: $5,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ENSEMBLE THEATRE: $2,000 over 4y, 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Richard J Stern Found…The Francis Family Fo…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…Jewish Community Foun…Greater Kansas City C…Theater League IncMiller-Mellor Associa…John and Bernice Hamr…Copaken Family Founda…The Estelle S and Rob…Metropolitan Arts Cou…Miller Nichols Charit…
Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank TrusteeMO30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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