How much did THE STOWERS FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of THE STOWERS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

digital medicine

2020

precision medicine

2021

educational

2022

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2023

—

2024

operation

2025

pay portraitoperation

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 27 grants

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

$133,103

Median grant

States reached

$204M

Total assets

Largest grants

STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH$1,027,770
VPKJL FUND$1,000,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$1,000,000
VPKJL FUND$500,000
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL$500,000
GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$450,000
ROSE BROOKS$300,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$300,000
VALLEY HOPE FOUNDATION$250,000
WARREN VILLAGE$250,000
SCRIPPS TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE$250,000
FIRST CALL$175,000
VPKJL FUND$150,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$133,103
HIGGINS BROTHERS SUGICENTER FOR HOPE FUND$100,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$40M · 26 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$40M

$866k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+24%

Still filing today

38%

18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $445k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther

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

OB
Operation Breakthrough
8× · 2018–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +17%
GP
GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
8× · 2018–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +11%
CM
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL
7× · 2018–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +23%

Funded once

SS
SYNERGY SERVICESgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue +173%
KC
KANSAS CITY HOSPICE AND PALLATIVE CARE
one grant, 2024 · $160k
BS
BLOCH SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
one grant, 2021 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment

United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc

United way of greater kansas city's mission is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of greater kansas city.

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Kids Win Missouri

Through collaboration and advocacy, Kids Win Missouri develops and advances evidence-based and equity-centered policies and systems changes to support the health, education, safety and development of children and their families.

Human Services

Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition

Kanza Mental Health and Guidance

Kanza mental health is a community based mental health counseling center. our competent and dependable staff are goal-oriented and solution-focused. we provide confidential, affordable treatment that accurately deals with today's issues…

Health

Central Indiana Corporate

The central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is transforming our regional economy, bringing together the ceos of central indiana's largest and most civically engaged employers and university presidents to advance "big picture"…

Community Improvement

Nurture Kc

Promotes health of mothers and children through education, advocacy and collaboration with organizations addressing infant mortality, immunization, childhood obesity and safety.

Health

Chamber of Commerce of Greater

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.

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University of Kansas Center for Research Inc

The University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. operates under the administrative jurisdiction of the University of Kansas, administering sponsored agreements to conduct research and training for the university.

Science & Tech

Sunflower House Inc

To see safe children thriving in nurturing families and communities

Crime & Legal

Family Service and Guidance Center of

Family service and guidance center is a licensed community mental health center that has served shawnee county, ks children and families since 1904. today, fsgc is the midwest's leader in children's mental health services. fsgc's…

Health

Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Mercy Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

10/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$19,165,000Health$12,813,967Education$7,626,048Human Services$1,246,532Crime & Legal$50,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation Of · Health Care Foundation of Greater Kc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Baum Family Foundation · E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community · The Sosland Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KANSAS MISSOURI MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 853649289 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KANSAS MISSOURI MENTAL HEALTH COLLABORATIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Stowers Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Stowers Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE STOWERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Stowers Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE STOWERS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Stowers Foundation?

More from the funding graph