· Private foundation
The Sunflower Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University Academy | $5,000 |
| The Learning Club of Kansas City | $5,000 |
| Catholic Charities | $5,000 |
| Urban Ranger Corps | $3,000 |
| Children's Hospital of Philadelphia | $2,500 |
| Rose Brooks Center Inc | $2,000 |
| Cross Lines | $2,000 |
| Camps for Kids | $2,000 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Step Forward | $1,500 |
| The Children's Place | $1,000 |
| Safehome | $1,000 |
| Crossnore School | $1,000 |
| City Union Mission Administration | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Sunflower Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 25% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 18%.
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 +57% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UAUNIVERSITY ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +57%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA7× · 2017–2024 · $20k · revenue +88%
- RBROSE BROOKS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- MHMayfield High SSchool GHSE Projectone grant, 2018 · $6k
- DHDOUBLE HARVEST INCone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue -100%
JEWISH RELIEF AGENCYone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -1%
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.
Children's services
`to create a culture that values parenting and keeping children safe through education, respect, advocacy, and strengthening families.
Advocacy for abused children
Children At Risk (C@R) is a statewide nonprofit organization whose mission is to serve as a catalyst for change to improve the quality of life for children through strategic research, public policy analysis, education, collaboration, and…
To provide educational and therapeutic services, at a professional level, for infants, toddlers and preschool children up to 12 years and their families through supporting the family unit and working with each child to develop his or her…
Kids first gives children a voice in divorce, custody, and other conflicts by providing focused legal representation and services for kids.
Vision: a world where no child's life is torn apart by war.children in conflict works tirelessly to restore hope, safety and childhoods to children whose lives are affected by war.
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To help kids and families heal the emotional scars of childhood cancer and learn to thrive.
We are the premier childrens mental health agency that reduces the suffering experienced by children who have emotional problems related to depression, anxiety, and behavior like adhd. untreated, these problems can lead to failure in…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 47 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 UNIVERSITY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HAVERFORD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMPS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds Benchmark School ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN RANGER CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Developing Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds LA CASA INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW RENK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds KC Healthy Kids ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY WRITERS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH RELIEF AGENCY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
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 · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Francis Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sunflower Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sunflower Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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