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The Sosland 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k74 grants · $132k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $791k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $1,051,626 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $570,250 |
| HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY | $441,180 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL | $156,250 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $135,000 |
| TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE | $114,000 |
| KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPERATORY ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| SCHECHTER INSTITUTETALI | $100,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $77,500 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $62,500 |
| THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE | $62,500 |
| UNION STATION KANSAS CITY | $52,500 |
| PREP-KC | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $445k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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.
157 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 27 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k 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
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +43%
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY5× · 2020–2024 · $578k · revenue +21%
- PHPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL5× · 2020–2024 · $576k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- KCKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPERATORY ACADEMYone grant, 2023 · $175k
- VSVILLAGE SHALOM CAPITAL CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $100k
- KCKANSAS CITY POLICE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $75k
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
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.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
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.
Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.
Unis mission is to partner with kansas citys urban core neighborhoods to bring business, government, and community organizations together to improve prosperity, health, safety & education in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connecting for Good. 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 37 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 319 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 The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
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: William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Francis Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family 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 Sosland 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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