· Private foundation
The Sosland Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SCHECHTER INSTITUTETALI | $100,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $77,500 |
| THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE | $62,500 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $62,500 |
| UNION STATION KANSAS CITY | $52,500 |
| PREP-KC | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
89 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. 89 of the 319 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sosland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sosland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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