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The McGee Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k23 grants · $498k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $404k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY-ST JOSEPH INC | $52,000 |
| REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC | $52,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR OF KANSAS CITY | $50,000 |
| NOTRE DAME DE SION SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| AVILA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| OUR LADY OF MERCY COUNTRY HOME | $50,000 |
| ST TERESAS ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| BISHOP SULLIVAN CENTER | $47,000 |
| SETON CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| JOURNEY TO NEW LIFE | $30,000 |
| GUADALUPE CENTERS INC | $30,000 |
| DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER | $28,000 |
| CONCEPTION ABBEY AND SEMINARY COLLEGE | $27,000 |
| SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY CENTRAL | $26,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
41 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- RUROCKHURST UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +16%
- AUAVILA UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $250k · revenue +128%
- OLOUR LADY OF MERCY COUNTRY HOME4× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- KCKansas City CARE Clinicgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +39%
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +3%
- CRCRISTO REY OF KANSAS CITYone grant, 2022 · $15k
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Villa st francis, a catholic, non-profit skilled nursing facility sponsored by the archdiocese of kansas city in olathe, provides dementia care, skilled nursing, respite, and hospice.
Catholic care center strives to enhance the dignity and respect of all residents by offering competent, professional, and spiritually nourishing healthcare and supportive services. we strive to know the needs of our residents and provide…
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
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.
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…
The organization provides hospice care services within the archdiocese of kansas city in kansas as well as the greater metropolitan areas of kansas city, kansas and kansas city, missouri.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newhouse Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
38 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. 38 of the 50 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 REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY OF MERCY COUNTRY HOME ↗
- Who funds Little Sisters of The Poor ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Journey to New Life INC ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Center of Kansas Cty Ctl ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FUND ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE FARMER'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MINDDRIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Menorah Heritage Foundation · McCullough Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City
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 McGee 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.
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