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The Stanley H Durwood Foundation

To support the greater kansas city community foundation and to provide grants to aid and support public charities served by the greater kansas city community foundation.

$2.4M
Granted FY2018
28
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Stanley H Durwood Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Stanley H Durwood Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 27 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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27
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Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$13MEducation$1.4MHealth$789kInternational$650kRecreation & Sports$500kHuman Services$420kArts & Culture$65kYouth Development$30kOther$0
02FY2018 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • $10k–50k13 grants · $314k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Children's Mercy Hospital$500,000
Operation Breakthrough$500,000
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation$150,000
Kansas City Scholars Inc$130,000
The Foundation for Shawnee Mission Medical Center Inc$125,000
The Family Conservancy$100,000
United Inner City Services$100,000
University of Missouri in Kansas City Foundation$75,000
Teach for America-Kansas City$75,000
Guadalupe Centers Inc$75,000
St Paul's Episcopal Day School$57,000
Kansas City Art Institute$50,000
Crossroads Charter Schools$50,000
Start at Zero$50,000
Northland Early Education Center$50,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $470k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%The Family Conservancy: $100k → 16%Start at Zero: $50k → 15%YMCA of Greater Kansas City: $30k → 15%Start at Zero: $15k → 15%United Inner City Services: $100k → 15%United Inner City Services: $50k → 15%Academie Lafayette: $50k → 15%Guadalupe Centers Inc: $75k → 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.
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 14 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

$1.9M
$794k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+31%

Still filing today

93%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $993k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & 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

  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $650k · revenue +23%
  • GJ
    GREAT JOBS KC INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $230k · revenue ×12
  • UI
    UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CO
    CURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    one grant, 2017 · $500k
  • RU
    ROCKHURST UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $129k · revenue +31%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUILDING CORP
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -88%
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 Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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2
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
3
Kc International Academy

Kansas city international academy is committed to excellence in education, inspiring and empowering children from all nationalities and diverse backgrounds, giving them the foundation they need to achieve the highest level of success in…

Education
4
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment
5
Whitefield Academy Association

The mission of whitefield academy is to support parents by providing students with a top-tier academic foundation in a joyful, christ-centered community of classical learning.

Education
6
The King's Christian School

The king's christian school is a k-12 prepatory school that equips and strengthens students through education and example, that they might stand firmly upon the word of god and to become effective servant-leaders who impact the world…

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7
Kansas National Education Association

To advocate for education professionals and to unite our members, kansans, and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.

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8
Prairie Crossing Charter School

We believe that children are our best hope to improve the world.

Education
9
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
10
North Kansas City Schools Education Foundation

Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.

Education
11
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
12
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School Smart Kc Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pta Kansas Congress of Parents and Teachers. 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

33 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. 33 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $13,010,500 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community Foundation+1 more: $50,000 · PhilanthropyOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $650,000 · EducationOPERATION …GREAT JOBS KC INC: $230,000 · EducationGREAT JOBS…ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $129,491 · EducationROCKHURST …CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $100,000 · EducationCROSSROADS…UMKC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUMKC FOUND…Teach for America Inc: $75,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $60,000 · Education+7 more: $261,000 · Education+7 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $500,000 · HealthAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $250,000 · HealthMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $39,000 · HealthCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $500,000 · OtherST PAULS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL KANSAS CITY: $77,000 · OtherNorthland Early Education Cent: $50,000 · OtherPTA KANSAS CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS: $34,000 · OtherPLAZA ACADEMY: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $30,000 · OtherUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $100,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesSTART AT ZERO INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesACADEMIE LAFAYETTE: $50,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $30,000 · Human ServicesTHE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $30,000 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$13,060,500Education$1,605,491Health$789,000Other$716,000Human Services$470,000Arts & Culture$65,000Youth Development$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $13,010,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $650,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $250,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetGREAT JOBS KC INC: $230,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $129,491 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTART AT ZERO INC: $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUILDING CORP: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetNorthland Early Education Cent: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetACADEMIE LAFAYETTE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FUND: $46,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetShow Me KC Schools Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $39,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAZA ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSCHOOL SMART KC INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUPPER ROOM KC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Sherman Family Fo…William T Kemper Foun…The Kansas City Royal…Marion and Henry Bloc…Oppenstein Brothers F…Jackson County Commun…The Sunderland Founda…The Francis Family Fo…The H & R Block Found…Jewish Community Foun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO44.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sunderland Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City

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 Stanley H Durwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stanley H Durwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 Stanley H Durwood Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Stanley H Durwood 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 35 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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