· Private foundation
The Shumaker Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $156k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $876k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MO COALITION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT | $37,000 |
| BRIDGING THE GAP | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| MO WORKERS CENTER | $30,000 |
| STRATEGIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| UPPER ROOM | $25,000 |
| KC CAN COMPOST | $25,000 |
| LYRIK'S INSTITUTION | $25,000 |
| ENTITLED LEARNING | $25,000 |
| KC PET PROJECT | $25,000 |
| PROSPECT BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF YATES | $25,000 |
| BE GREAT TOGETHER KC | $25,000 |
| MISSION VISION PROJECT | $25,000 |
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, $693k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
139 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2024, 75 since wound down; 26 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k 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
- BTBRIDGING THE GAP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +256%
- KCKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +176%
- MCMissouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation5× · 2019–2023 · $152k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF YATESone grant, 2022 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $25k
- TFTHE FARM SCHOOL AT GIBBS ROADone grant, 2022 · $22k
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.
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Greenline Foundation 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 23 years old; the field is 20. 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
157 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. 157 of the 265 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BRIDGING THE GAP INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Green Works In Kansas City ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds ARTSTECH ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MINDDRIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Missouri Workers Center ↗
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
- Who funds Prospect Business Association ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KC CAN COMPOST ↗
- Who funds BE GREAT TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GIVING GROVE ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ENTITLED LEARNING ↗
- Who funds LYRIKS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds MISSION VISION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund ↗
- Who funds KC for Refugees ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM KC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENLINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗
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: Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The H & R Block Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sherman Family Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Commerce Bancshares Foundation
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 Shumaker 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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