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The Stowers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $197k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $808k
- $250k+11 grants · $5.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH | $1,027,770 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $1,000,000 |
| VPKJL FUND | $1,000,000 |
| VPKJL FUND | $500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
| GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $450,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $300,000 |
| ROSE BROOKS | $300,000 |
| WARREN VILLAGE | $250,000 |
| SCRIPPS TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| VALLEY HOPE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| FIRST CALL | $175,000 |
| VPKJL FUND | $150,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $133,103 |
| KANSAS CITY FARM SCHOOL AT GIBBS ROAD | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k 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
- SISTOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH9× · 2017–2025 · $10M · revenue +19%
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $5.0M · revenue +23%
- GPGORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- SSSYNERGY SERVICES INCone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
- KCKANSAS CITY HOSPICE AND PALLATIVE CAREone grant, 2024 · $160k
- BSBLOCH SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENTone grant, 2021 · $125k
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.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
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.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Non-profit research institute to advance a systems (or holistic and cross-disciplinary) approach to science; personalized medicine; global health & environmental sustainability; science education; & the pioneering & invention of biological…
Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stowers Institute for Medical Research. 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 42 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 41 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 STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds WARREN VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX MULTISPORT INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE SKY COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE ↗
- Who funds FORGING YOUTH RESILIENCE ↗
- Who funds WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWSPERITY INC ↗
- Who funds PTA Colorado Congress dba South High School PTSA ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIVE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Atterbury Family Foundation · The Baum Family Foundation · The Curry 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 Stowers 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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