Missouri · Public charity
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 FY2024(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 82%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $112M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 82% of the organizations The Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 85% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $924k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 35 | $1.2M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $1.1M | 82% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $65k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $82k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $81k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas City CARE Clinic | $154,226 | 4 | 0% |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $129,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Child Protection Center Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Ability Kc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jewish Vocational Service Bureau of Kansas City | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hope Family Care Center LLC | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Metropolitan Lutheran Ministry | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Newhouse Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Mothers Refuge | $98,225 | 2 | 1% |
| Avila University | $88,697 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Research Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About The Research Foundation
- How much does The Research Foundation give?
- The Research Foundation reported 36 itemized grants totaling $1,227,746, out of $1,791,986 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Research Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (57%), Human Services (12%), Education (10%).
- Who are The Research Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kansas City CARE Clinic ($154k), Operation Breakthrough Inc ($129k), Child Protection Center Inc ($100k).
- Does The Research Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 82% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Research Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Health Forward Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation.
- Where is The Research Foundation based?
- The Research Foundation is based in MO.
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