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The Research Foundation

THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION invests in health-centered programs and partnerships that benefit health care students and professionals, patients, and people in the kansas city community.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$1.5MHuman Services$323kEducation$252kCrime & Legal$170kEmployment$122kHousing & Shelter$115kPublic Safety & Disaster$72kCommunity Improvement$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $1,227,746 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,791,986 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $564,240 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $573k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $650k
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$112M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTHER'S REFUGE$50,000
CARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD$50,000
SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER$50,000
ROSE BROOKS CENTER$50,000
ABILITY KC$50,000
KANSAS CITY CARE CLINIC DBA KC CARE HEALTH CENTER$50,000
NEWHOUSE$50,000
PREP-KC$50,000
HOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER$50,000
VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT$50,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY$50,000
METRO LUTHERAN MINISTRY$50,000
CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC$50,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC$45,000
CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION (CAPA)$40,000
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 (FY22–24, $123k) 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.

area typical 11%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $10k → 15%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $5k → 15%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $50k → 15%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $48k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 29 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
6

Total granted

$2.2M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+59%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther

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

  • KC
    Kansas City CARE Clinic
    4× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +312%
  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $129k · revenue +9%
  • AK
    ABILITY KC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $100k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • MV
    MIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $51k · revenue -8%
  • MR
    MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +11%
  • MV
    MISSION VISION PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +82%

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
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
2
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health
3
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
4
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
5
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.

Health
6
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
7
Midtown Health Center

Provide high quality medical, behavioral health, and dental services that are affordable, accessible, and patient-focused.

Health
8
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
9
Kansas City Anti Violence Project

To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.

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10
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
11
Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment
12
Open Cities Health Center Inc

Open Cities Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) whose mission is to provide culturally competent primary and preventive healthcare services to a largely underserved population in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mattie Rhodes Memorial Society D/B/a Mattie Rhodes Center and the most unlike its peers is Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City 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 40 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%5%5–10yr15%18%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr30%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%7%5–10yr15%17%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr11%37%35–55yr30%27%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%
698/5,295

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
27/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Kansas City CARE Clinic — $154,226 · OtherKansas City CARE ClinicABILITY KC — $100,000 · OtherABILITY KCNEWHOUSE INC — $100,000 · OtherNEWHOUSE INCMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY — $100,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRYJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY — $100,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS …FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY — $50,000 · OtherCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 · OtherSeton Center Inc — $50,000 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $50,000 · OtherCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · OtherFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc — $50,000 · OtherDeveloping Potential Inc — $50,000 · Other+5 more — $105,000 · Other+5 moreHOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER LLC — $100,000 · HealthHOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER LLCSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC — $81,600 · HealthSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER …SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES — $81,050 · HealthSWOPE HEALTH SERVICESVIVENT HEALTH INC — $80,000 · HealthVIVENT HEALTH INCLEVELUP KIDS INC — $80,000 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS INCCARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD INC — $75,000 · HealthCARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD INCAmethyst Place Inc — $65,000 · HealthAmethyst Place IncMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $51,213 · HealthMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RE…MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $50,000 · HealthMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY …GILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY — $31,450 · HealthThe Battle Within Inc — $25,000 · HealthOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $129,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHR…AVILA UNIVERSITY — $88,697 · EducationAVILA UNIVERSITYWilliam Jewell College — $87,646 · EducationWilliam Jewell Col…PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR RE…Kansas City University — $38,825 · EducationKansas City Univer…MISSION VISION PROJECT — $30,000 · EducationMISSION VISION PRO…CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalCHILD PRO…METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $50,000 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLI…THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $50,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILD…CALVARY COMMUNITY OUTREACH NETWORK — $15,000 · Crime & LegalCALVARY C…Mothers Refuge — $98,225 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMS — $25,000 · Human ServicesVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $50,000 · Public BenefitJourney to New Life INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitCHARLIES HOUSE INC — $72,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$999,226Health$720,313Education$424,168Crime & Legal$215,000Human Services$123,225Public Benefit$75,000Public Safety & Disaster$72,000

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 budgetKansas City CARE Clinic — $154,226 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $129,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetABILITY KC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE FAMILY CARE CENTER LLC — $100,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMothers Refuge — $98,225 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY — $88,697 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Jewell College — $87,646 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC — $81,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES — $81,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIVENT HEALTH INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC — $80,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD INC — $75,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCHARLIES HOUSE INC — $72,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMIDWEST VETERANS' BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $51,213 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSeton Center Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDeveloping Potential Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKansas City University — $38,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY — $31,450 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMISSION VISION PROJECT — $30,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetJourney to New Life INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRESTART INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetThe Battle Within Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALPHAPOINTE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL CENTRO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALVARY COMMUNITY OUTREACH NETWORK — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…Oppenstein Brothers F…Jackson County Commun…The Sunderland Founda…Menorah Heritage Foun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The H & R Block Found…Victor E Speas Founda…William T Kemper Foun…R a Long Foundation 6…
Health Forward FoundationMO70.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sunderland Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Victor E Speas Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · 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 The Research 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%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
    20report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Research Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Research 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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