· Private foundation
The Robert Schwan-Anne Kriescher Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 50% of THE ROBERT SCHWAN-ANNE KRIESCHER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANDS TO HEARTS INC | $12,000 |
| CLOWNS WITHOUT BORDERS INC | $7,500 |
| HORSES AND HEROES INC | $6,000 |
| ARTS IN PRISON INC | $6,000 |
| KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC GIVING GROVE | $5,000 |
| MARY'S HOME MARYLAND INC | $5,000 |
| URBAN HUNGER PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| MARY HOUSE | $4,000 |
| JERUSALEM FARM INC | $3,500 |
| ONE MORE MILE CHARITIES | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED | $3,000 |
| WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS DBA THE PURPLE DOOR | $3,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN SERVING GREATER KANSAS CITY | $2,500 |
| HEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC | $2,500 |
| INCLUSION CONNECTION - PAWSABILITIES | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 43% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of The Robert Schwan-Anne Kriescher Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 6% of the giving stays in TX; read by stated purpose it is 12% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- HTHANDS TO HEARTS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $64k · revenue +59% · 37% of their budget
- NHNEW HORIZON RANCH INC5× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +6%
- JFJerusalem Farm8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +487%
Funded once
- TBTHE BLUE DOOR PROJECT INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -73%
- MAMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +108%
- TWThe Willow Domestic Violence Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +37%
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…
Serve individuals with disabilities
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.
Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.
ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.
Julia greeley home, inc. serves single unaccompanied women in the denver metro area between the ages of 18 and 64 who are struggling with chronic or repeated homelessness. the program fulfills existing gaps between overnight short term…
Marys house mission is to provide transitional living environment which provides residential care, individual and group counceling, assessment
Misfits Mission purpose is to lead women to restoration in Christ through transitional living and godly counsel of Christian leaders.
To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.
Nativty House KC provides hope, healing, shelter and love to young unwed mothers in a faith oriented environment based on the Roman Catholic Tradition by providing a residential maternity home in Wyandotte County, Kansas. It provides…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Love Fund for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Traveling Players Ensemble 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 45 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 HANDS TO HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZON RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CENTER FOR COMMUNICATIVE DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds Jerusalem Farm ↗
- Who funds TRAVELING PLAYERS ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER OF THE GULF COAST ↗
- Who funds HORSES & HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds MARY'S HOME MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS IN PRISON ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN SERVING GREATER KANSAS CITY MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM KC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE DOOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CLOWNS WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE FUND FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds The Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Community Services ↗
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 · The H & R Block Foundation · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Robert Schwan-Anne Kriescher Charitable 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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