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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.
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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 · FY2018
- $10k–50k13 grants · $314k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Teach for America-Kansas City | $75,000 |
| Guadalupe Centers Inc | $75,000 |
| University of Missouri in Kansas City Foundation | $75,000 |
| St Paul's Episcopal Day School | $57,000 |
| Northland Early Education Center | $50,000 |
| Crossroads Charter Schools | $50,000 |
| Start at Zero | $50,000 |
| Kansas City Art Institute | $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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2018, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $993k 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
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC2× · 2017–2018 · $650k · revenue +23%
- GJGREAT JOBS KC INC2× · 2017–2018 · $230k · revenue ×12
- UIUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- COCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIone grant, 2017 · $500k
- RUROCKHURST UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $129k · revenue +31%
- ALACADEMIE LAFAYETTEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +124%
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.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
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…
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
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.
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…
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.
We believe that children are our best hope to improve the world.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Engaging our communities to support and fund extraordinary educational experiences.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School Smart Kc Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 35 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
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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds START AT ZERO INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Northland Early Education Cent ↗
- Who funds ACADEMIE LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS BUILDING CORP ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FUND ↗
- Who funds Show Me KC Schools Inc ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds PTA KANSAS CONGRESS OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds PLAZA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL SMART KC INC ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM KC ↗
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: 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
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 Stanley H Durwood 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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