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The James P Pace Family Foundation at a glance

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The James P Pace Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.6MEducation$324kReligion$130kArts & Culture$31kYouth Development$10kHealth$8kEnvironment$5kHuman Services$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.6M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Pace Family Donor Advised Fund$1,641,717
University of Missouri$40,000
St Andrews Episcopal Church$20,000
Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy$10,000
National WWI Museum and Memorial$5,000
Powell Gardens$5,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DKMS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%THE JED FOUNDATION: $3k → 20%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5k → 14%KIDS TLC: $3k → 5%Powell Gardens: $5k → 14%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $5k → 15%YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT: $3k → 9%HEART MATH TUTORING: $3k → 10%BURLINGTON DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $3k → 13%The Pace Family Donor Advised Fund: $1.6M → 8%SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND: $5k → 7%HILLSDALE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%CENTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND: $5k → 7%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORP KC: $3k → 15%SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND: $5k → 7%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $3k → 15%SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND: $4k → 7%KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10k → 15%SPECIAL OPERATIONS FUND: $2k → 7%KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10k → 15%KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $10k → 15%Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy: $10k → 15%ST ANDREWS CHURCH: $25k → 15%ST ANDREWS CHURCH: $25k → 15%ST ANDREWS CHURCH: $20k → 15%ST ANDREWS CHURCH: $20k → 15%St Andrews Episcopal Church: $20k → 15%ST ANDREWS CHURCH: $20k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $6k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $5k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $5k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $5k → 15%NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $5k → 15%National WWI Museum and Memorial: $5k → 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

MI
NY
NJ
CT
MO
VA
KS
NC
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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$458k · 6 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$458k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+142%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • KC
    KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +16%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +64%
  • SO
    Special Operations Fund
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CENTER EDUCATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -63%
  • BD
    Burlington Development Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +843%
  • DF
    DKMS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
North Kansas City Schools Education Foundation

Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.

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
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

—
4
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs

To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.

Education
5
De La Salle Education Center

Delasalle high school students will courageously pursue extraordinary opportunities and support one another in their quests for success post-graduation.

—
6
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
7
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
8
The Wilson School

To prepare students for success in an ever-changing world, our exceptional educators embrace classic and innovative methods within a nurturing, inclusive, and collaborative environment. our mission is to provide them with an excellent…

Education
9
Lake Forest Academy

Lake forest academy strives to embody in its practices - and to cultivate in its students -excellence of character, scholarship, citizenship, and responsibility.

Education
10
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
11
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
12
Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science

The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Pace Family Donor Advised Fund: $1,641,717 · OtherThe Pace Family Donor Advised FundUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $248,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIST ANDREWS CHURCH: $110,000 · OtherST ANDREWS CHURCH+6 more: $35,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $40,000 · EducationSpecial Operations Fund: $21,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $7,500 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR CENTER EDUCATION: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $31,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentBurlington Development Corporation: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE JED FOUNDATION: $2,500 · Health
Other$2,034,717Education$76,000Arts & Culture$31,000Youth Development$7,500Housing & Shelter$2,500Health$2,500

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 budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $31,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Operations Fund: $21,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBurlington Development Corporation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Youth Mental Health Project: $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Natl Christian Charit…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James P Pace Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James P Pace 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The James P Pace Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The James P Pace Family 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 18 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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