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Truman Heartland Community Foundation
The foundation's primary exempt purpose is to improve the lives of eastern jackson county missouri.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 116 grants below total $4,330,455 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,795,205 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,464,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k42 grants · $293k
- $10k–50k64 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k7 grants · $586k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GENE CABLE AUTOMOTIVE SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,547,456 |
| HILLCREST TRANSITIONAL HOUSING | $319,850 |
| FELLOWSHIP BIBLE CHURCH | $290,000 |
| JOB SKILLS FOR NEW CAREERS | $139,500 |
| SELECTED INDEPENDENT FUNERAL HOMES EDUCATIONAL TRUST | $100,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITALS & CLINICS | $86,223 |
| ENGLEWOOD ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH & SCHOOL | $80,000 |
| HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH | $70,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $60,000 |
| BRIGHTSTONE INC | $50,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $49,725 |
| SUSTAINABILITY FUND FOR THCF | $47,250 |
| WOODS CHAPEL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $47,140 |
| GATEWAY CHURCH OF BLUE SPRINGS | $41,300 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE | $37,208 |
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 (FY17–23, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
170 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2023, 99 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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
- CSCommunity Services League of Jackson County8× · 2017–2024 · $898k · revenue +100%
- M4MISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $585k · revenue +116% · 53% of their budget
- BIBRIGHTSTONE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $575k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- MIMERCY IN ACTION INTERNATIONALone grant, 2017 · $475k · revenue -54% · 68% of their budget
- MDMISSOURI DEVELOPMENT FINANCE BOARDone grant, 2018 · $240k
- CCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INCone grant, 2017 · $238k
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Evangel is a comprehensive christian university that is committed to excellence in educating and equipping students to become spirit empowered servants of god who will impact the church and society globally.
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…
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
The mission of Taylor University is to develop servant-leaders marked with a passion to minister Christ's redemptive love, grace, and truth to a world in need.
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Truman Heartland Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Burnett Music Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
236 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. 236 of the 380 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA ↗
- Who funds MERCY IN ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DRUMM CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds RACHEL HOUSE PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC-ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL DISTRICT OF INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTING KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
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 · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Sunderland Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg
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 Truman Heartland Community 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Maryland Symphony Orchestra Inc — 5% of income from government
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.