· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
| VPKJL FUND | $500,000 |
| GORDON PARKS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $450,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $300,000 |
| ROSE BROOKS | $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 |
| KANSAS CITY FARM SCHOOL AT GIBBS ROAD | $100,000 |
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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against -17% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 41 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
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stowers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stowers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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