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The Kincaid Group 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.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$153kEducation$81kHealth$5kAnimals$2kCrime & Legal$2kEmployment$2kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$50,000
Median grant
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States reached
$69k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMBRACE$50,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 8%MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MO & KS: $2k → 11%SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS: $2k → 5%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 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.

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Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
2
Kansas City Public Schools Education Foundation

To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.

Education
3
Great Jobs Kc Inc

The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.

Education
4
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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5
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians

The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…

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Jobs for America's Graduates - Kansas I

Jag-k is committed to partnering with students to help them overcome challenges, graduate from high school, and prepare for college or career pathways that will help them reach their full potential as leaders for their families, employers,…

Education
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The Lean Lab Inc Lean Lab Education

We are a nonprofit organization that specializes in codesign research between education technology companies and schools. we match parents, learners and educators with edtech developers to inform, develop, and evaluate the next generation…

Education
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Wichitas Littlest Heroes

Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…

Human Services
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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.

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Kansas City Autism Training Center Inc

The kansas city autism training center is committed to helping people on the autism spectrum fulfill their potential through ethical, evidence-based treatment, education, and training.

Education
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Ewing Marion Kauffman School Inc

The mission of the kauffman school is to prepare students to excel academically, graduate from college and apply their unique talents in the world to create economically independent and personally fulfilling lives.

Education
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Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; the most unlike its peers is First Priority of America 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

16 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. 16 of the 20 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GIVING THE BASICS INC: $100,000 · OtherGIVING THE BASICS INCEMBRACE: $50,000 · OtherEMBRACE+8 more: $12,000 · Other+8 moreFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $75,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION+3 more: $4,500 · Education+3 moreMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $1,500 · Human ServicesSOAR SPECIAL NEEDS: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $1,500 · Crime & LegalSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsLEES SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · PhilanthropySAFE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Youth Development
Other$162,000Education$79,500Human Services$3,000Crime & Legal$1,500Recreation & Sports$1,500Philanthropy$1,500Youth Development$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME INNOVATIONS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST PRIORITY OF AMERICA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOLDEN SCOOP LLC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEES SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAFE AMERICA FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOAR SPECIAL NEEDS: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $1,500 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 Community FoundationMO22.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Seaboard Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Hallmark Corporate 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 Kincaid Group Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kincaid Group Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%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
    1get no government money at all
    5report 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.

    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 20 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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