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Bickimer 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.
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
- Under $10k35 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUILDING HOPE FOUNDATION | $26,211 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION | $4,259 |
| KIDS TLC | $4,108 |
| VILLA ST FRANCIS | $3,500 |
| NEUMANN UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,950 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY KANSAS CITY | $2,540 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,531 |
| CASA DEL MIGRANTE EN TIJUANA | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF JCDS | $2,500 |
| BISHOP WARD HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| HEALING HOUSE | $2,500 |
| EMBRACE | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 19 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k 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
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +54%
- KIKIDSTLC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +52%
- FOFriends of Jcds Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- SPST PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $2k
- LFLOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.
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.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
The Kansas City Dream Center connects people in need to a community of support by offering free resources and services that address immediate and long-term needs in the areas of abuse, addiction, education, homelessness and poverty.
The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
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…
The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of kansas city is to provide essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.
Care Beyond the Boulevard (CBB) provides quality medical care, case management, and respite services to the homeless, uninsured, and vulnerable people of Greater Kansas City.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donnelly College and the most unlike its peers is Jospehs Way Inc. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 22% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 56 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 JOSPEHS WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Jcds Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARL'S CAUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEUMANN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE ↗
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 · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · McCullough Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Servant Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Greater Horizons · Clay Blair Foundation · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
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 Bickimer Family 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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