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The Shumaker Family Foundation at a glance

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The Shumaker Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.2MHuman Services$972kEnvironment$851kCommunity Improvement$698kCrime & Legal$643kAnimals$382kFood & Nutrition$360kArts & Culture$314kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k49 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $876k
$8,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MO COALITION FOR THE ENVIRONMENT$37,000
BRIDGING THE GAP$35,000
STRATEGIC WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
MO WORKERS CENTER$30,000
FRIENDS OF YATES$25,000
KC FOR REFUGEES$25,000
BE GREAT TOGETHER KC$25,000
ENTITLED LEARNING$25,000
KC CAN COMPOST$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
LYRIK'S INSTITUTION$25,000
UPPER ROOM$25,000
FRONT PORCH ALLIANCE$25,000
MISSION VISION PROJECT$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project: $4k → 17%FRIENDS OF YATES: $25k → 16%FRIENDS OF YATES: $25k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $13k → 16%Flance Early Learning Center: $2k → 21%Sharing Communities in Rosedale Inc: $20k → 16%SafeHome: $17k → 5%SAFEHOME: $17k → 5%SafeHome: $17k → 5%SafeHome: $17k → 5%SafeHome: $12k → 5%Sharing Communities in Rosedale Inc: $19k → 16%THE HOPE CENTER: $15k → 15%Sharing Communities in Rosedale Inc: $19k → 16%THE HOPE CENTER: $15k → 15%THE HOPE CENTER: $15k → 15%AdHoc Group Against Crime: $10k → 15%THE HOPE CENTER: $10k → 15%The Hope Center: $5k → 15%Center of Grace: $3k → 5%Family Promise of Lawrence: $2k → 15%MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION: $10k → 15%MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION: $10k → 15%MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION: $10k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $25k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $20k → 15%United Inner City Services: $20k → 15%United Inner City Services: $20k → 15%START AT ZERO: $20k → 15%Start at Zero: $20k → 15%Start at Zero: $20k → 15%Kansas City Indian Center: $10k → 15%Cornerstones of Care: $9k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $8k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $6k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $6k → 15%Artists Helping the Homeless Inc: $2k → 15%Artists Helping the Homeless Inc: $2k → 15%Artists Helping the Homeless Inc: $2k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $20k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $20k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS: $20k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATION: $20k → 15%Hope House: $20k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $20k → 15%Hope House: $20k → 15%Hope House: $20k → 15%URBAN LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $15k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KS
DC
OK
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.4M · 139 repeat orgs$727k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

139
96

Total granted

$6.4M
$496k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+38%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BT
    BRIDGING THE GAP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $323k · revenue +256%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT
    8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +176%
  • MC
    Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation
    5× · 2019–2023 · $152k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF YATES
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • TF
    THE FARM SCHOOL AT GIBBS ROAD
    one grant, 2022 · $22k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kansas City Community Land Trust

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
3
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
4
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
5
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
6
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
7
Kc Common Good Inc

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

Employment
8
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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9
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

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10
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement
11
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
12
Kansas Action for Children Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

157 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/157
Grantees still filing
113/157
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIDGING THE GAP INC: $322,500 · OtherBRIDGING THE GAP INCNEWHOUSE INC: $151,500 · OtherGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $173,000 · Other+133 more: $3,472,678 · Other+133 moreGreen Works In Kansas City: $140,000 · EducationGreen Works In…PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $116,500 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FO…ARTSTECH: $108,000 · EducationARTSTECHMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED: $94,700 · EducationMINDDRIVE INCO…VAN GO INC: $87,500 · EducationVAN GO INCBE GREAT TOGETHER: $83,000 · EducationBE GREAT TOGET…MISSION VISION PROJECT: $75,000 · EducationMISSION VISION…ENTITLED LEARNING: $75,000 · EducationENTITLED LEARN…Essential Families Midwest Inc: $60,000 · EducationEssential Fami…TURN THE PAGE KC INC: $34,000 · Education+6 more: $67,350 · Education+6 moreUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $85,700 · Human ServicesUNITED INN…HOPE HOUSE INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE…HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $80,000 · Human ServicesHIGH ASPIR…SAFEHOME INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME I…START AT ZERO INC: $61,000 · Human ServicesSTART AT Z…THE HOPE CENTER INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE C…SHARING COMMUNITY IN ROSEDALE INC: $58,000 · Human ServicesSHARING CO…FRIENDS OF YATES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF…MARLBOROUGH COMMUNITY COALITION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $29,534 · Human Services+9 more: $75,750 · Human Services+9 moreMissouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation: $152,000 · EnvironmentKC CAN COMPOST: $85,000 · EnvironmentHEARTLAND CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $71,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $66,386 · EnvironmentClimate Action KC Inc: $30,000 · EnvironmentMO HIVES KC: $29,400 · Environment+3 more: $19,100 · EnvironmentCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $75,286 · Crime & LegalCommunity Environmental Legal Defense Fund: $75,000 · Crime & LegalDETERMINATION INCORPORATED: $45,000 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $40,000 · Crime & LegalCALVARY COMMUNITY OUTREACH NETWORK: $19,000 · Crime & Legal+2 more: $18,600 · Crime & LegalDOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC: $143,500 · Civil RightsJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $112,000 · Civil RightsKC for Refugees: $75,000 · Civil RightsJustice For Wyandotte: $20,000 · Civil RightsKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $195,000 · AnimalsCHAIN OF HOPE KC: $28,100 · AnimalsGREAT PLAINS SPCA: $28,000 · Animals+5 more: $23,500 · Animals
Other$4,119,678Education$941,050Human Services$689,984Environment$452,886Crime & Legal$372,886Civil Rights$350,500Animals$274,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIDGING THE GAP INC: $322,500 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $195,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $173,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation: $152,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $151,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC: $143,500 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetGreen Works In Kansas City: $140,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC: $116,500 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $112,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetARTSTECH: $108,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $100,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED: $94,700 over 8y, 44% of budgetMissouri Workers Center: $90,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetVAN GO INC: $87,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetProspect Business Association: $87,200 over 4y, 13% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $85,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKC CAN COMPOST: $85,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetBE GREAT TOGETHER: $83,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GIVING GROVE: $80,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $80,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $75,286 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUPPER ROOM KC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMISSION VISION PROJECT: $75,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetFront Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetKC for Refugees: $75,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetENTITLED LEARNING: $75,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetLYRIKS INSTITUTION: $75,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetTHE GREENLINE FOUNDATION INC: $72,500 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetHEARTLAND CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $71,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $66,386 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSTART AT ZERO INC: $61,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetCenter for Conflict Resolution: $61,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEssential Families Midwest Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTEACHERS LIKE ME: $60,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $59,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSHARING COMMUNITY IN ROSEDALE INC: $58,000 over 3y, 30% of budgetBASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $56,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF YATES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $48,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST: $47,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDETERMINATION INCORPORATED: $45,000 over 3y, 42% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING GROVE ↗
  • Who funds HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds UPPER ROOM KC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION VISION PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc ↗
  • Who funds KC for Refugees ↗
  • Who funds Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund ↗
  • Who funds ENTITLED LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds LYRIKS INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE GREENLINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEARTLAND CONSERVATION ALLIANCE ↗

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.

Health Forward Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…The H & R Block Found…Menorah Heritage Foun…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Francis Family Fo…William T Kemper Foun…The Sherman Family Fo…Jackson County Commun…Commerce Bancshares F…
Health Forward FoundationMO117× affinity60 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Shumaker Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Shumaker Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    62report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Shumaker Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Shumaker Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 265 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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