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Junior League of Kansas City Missouri

The junior league of kansas city, missouri (jlkcmo) is a 501(c)(3) organziation of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

$79k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$147kHealth$43kArts & Culture$28kHousing & Shelter$18kYouth Development$18kEducation$18kEnvironment$5kPublic Benefit$5kOther$45k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 4 grants below total $28,170 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,855 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,685 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.

$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BALLET NORTH$7,500
LORRAINE'S HOUSE$7,500
ROSE BROOK'S$7,500
WORNALL MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC$5,670
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $9k → 5%PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $6k → 8%SAFEHOME: $5k → 5%avenues of life: $9k → 16%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $9k → 5%SHADOWN BUDDIES FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE - SOLACE HOUSE: $12k → 5%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE - SOLACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE - SOLACE HOUSE: $5k → 5%LORRAINE'S HOUSE: $8k → 5%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $5k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE: $7k → 15%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $6k → 15%TNC COMMUNITY: $5k → 15%HARRY S TRUMAN CHILDRENS NEUROLOGICAL CENTER - TNC COMMUNITY: $5k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICE FOR ST MARK'S CHILD & FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES FOR ST MARK'S CHILD & FAMILY CENTER: $5k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES: $13k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES: $10k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES: $8k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$161k · 10 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
24

Total granted

$161k
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • HAPPYBOTTOMS
    3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +129%
  • KC
    Kansas City Hospice Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +23%
  • AP
    Amethyst Place Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +600%

Funded once

  • LM
    LAZARUS MINISTRIES KCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +86%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +21%
  • AO
    AVENUE OF LIFE INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2022 · $9k · revenue +138%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
2
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
3
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
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
Cornerstone of Topeka Inc

All of Cornerstone efforts are directed toward interrupting the cycle of homelessness, providing decent, safe, accessible and affordable housing of choice to moderate and low-income households, and revitalizing Topeka neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
6
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
7
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
8
Refuge Kc Inc

We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom

Religion
9
Kids Win Missouri

Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…

Human Services
10
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.

Community Improvement
11
Nurture Kc

Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…

Health
12
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stonelion Puppet Theatre. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyConstruction Industry Trade…Affordable Housing ProvidersEducation Foundations and S…Senior Residential CareK-12 Educational Equity Pro…Youth Competitive Sports Pr…Performing Arts Organizatio…Faith-Based Community Suppo…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%18%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr24%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%23%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr24%20%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
13%
1,173/9,066

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.

04the grantee network

43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HAPPYBOTTOMS — $29,500 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMSKansas City Hospice Inc — $28,916 · Human ServicesKansas City Hospice IncUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INCLAZARUS MINISTRIES KC — $10,000 · Human ServicesLAZARUS MINISTRIES KCHARRY S TRUMAN CHILDREN'S NEUROLOGICAL CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesHARRY S TRUMAN CHILDREN'S NEUROLOGICAL CENTERJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $8,800 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESAVENUE OF LIFE INC — $8,519 · Human ServicesAVENUE OF LIFE INCLORRAINE'S HOUSE — $7,500 · Human ServicesHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $7,190 · Human ServicesMothers Refuge — $6,000 · Human ServicesPLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $5,000 · Human ServicesROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $12,500 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER …CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $7,500 · OtherCRISTO REY KANSAS C…YOUTH MOVEMENT INC — $7,500 · OtherYOUTH MOVEMENT INCCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI — $7,200 · OtherCHILDREN'S CENTER F…NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER — $5,000 · OtherNORTHEAST COMMUNITY…The Whole Person Inc — $5,000 · OtherThe Whole Person In…Wildwood Outdoor Education Center — $5,000 · OtherWildwood Outdoor Ed…Journey to New Life INC — $5,000 · OtherJourney to New Life…Amethyst Place Inc — $19,823 · HealthAmethyst Place …SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC — $6,519 · HealthSAMUEL U RODGER…HOPEKIDS INC — $6,000 · HealthHOPEKIDS INCRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc — $6,000 · HealthRonald McDonald…LEVELUP KIDS INC — $5,000 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS IN…KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $12,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CI…WORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS INC — $5,670 · Arts & CultureWORNALL-M…STONELION PUPPET THEATRE — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSTONELION…KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $5,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CI…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterRESTART INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterYOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE — $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $12,500 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $5,000 · Education
Human Services$147,425Other$54,700Health$43,342Arts & Culture$28,170Housing & Shelter$17,500Youth Development$17,500Education$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS — $29,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc — $28,916 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $19,823 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE — $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL — $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAZARUS MINISTRIES KC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetHARRY S TRUMAN CHILDREN'S NEUROLOGICAL CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — $8,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVENUE OF LIFE INC — $8,519 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH MOVEMENT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI — $7,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA — $7,190 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC — $6,519 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMothers Refuge — $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOPEKIDS INC — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC — $6,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHOME INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTONELION PUPPET THEATRE — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetRESTART INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHADOW BUDDIES FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJourney to New Life INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Whole Person Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Health Forward Founda…The H & R Block Found…Oppenstein Brothers F…Jackson County Commun…R a Long Foundation 6…The Kansas City Royal…The Sunderland Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Servant FoundationJohn W and Effie E Sp…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO58× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Servant Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust

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 Junior League of Kansas City Missouri 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report 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

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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