· Private foundation
Thomas and Sally Wood Family 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $30,000 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $25,000 |
| KCPT | $20,000 |
| VETRANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $20,000 |
| KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $20,000 |
| ABILITY KC | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE JEWEL BALL | $15,000 |
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM | $15,000 |
| UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY - OKLAHOMA CHAPTER | $10,000 |
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, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +46%
- KMKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +7%
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CANCER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $15k
ARTS ALLIANCE TULSA INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -5%- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
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.
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
Ballet wichita connects, inspires and enriches dancers, audiences, and community through dance, education and performance excellence.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 73 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
- Who funds JEWEL BALL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY 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 · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · William T Kemper Charitable Trust 10015200 · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Copaken Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas and Sally Wood Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas and Sally Wood Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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