· Public charity
United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
United way of greater kansas city assembles the best available resources to provide the farthest-reaching network of support for those in need in our community.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $407k
- $10k–50k183 grants · $4.4M
- $50k–250k56 grants · $5.4M
- $250k+2 grants · $877k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KC Core | $505,000 |
| Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas | $371,647 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City | $220,780 |
| Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics | $218,188 |
| Operation Breakthrough | $216,339 |
| Rose Brooks Center | $204,133 |
| Metro Lutheran Ministry | $182,532 |
| Harvesters | $170,076 |
| El Centro Inc | $155,458 |
| YMCA of Greater Kansas City | $141,173 |
| Futures First (formerly The Family Conservancy) | $135,344 |
| Synergy Services | $134,722 |
| Associates Caring for Eachother | $125,297 |
| Avenue of Life | $120,021 |
| Guadalupe Centers Inc | $119,929 |
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, $29.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
403 repeat relationships: 216 still active in FY2025, 187 since wound down; 81 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY7× · 2017–2025 · $3.8M · revenue +6%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital7× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +67%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $3.4M · revenue +24%
Funded once
- COCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI SPECIAL TRone grant, 2021 · $146k
- FOFRIENDS OF YATES INCone grant, 2021 · $134k · revenue +24%
- HCHEARTLAND CENTER FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $124k · revenue +143%
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
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.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
This organization is committed to community networking and coalition building to help eradicate homelessness in the Greater Kansas City metro area. The organization was formed to address the concerns and interests of the homeless…
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.
Hope family care center's mission is to honor god by establishing and operating a health clinic that provides compassionate, high-quality, whole-person care to individuals and families in east kansas city who have had the hardest time…
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
How this is measured
495 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 495 of the 644 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Community Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING FAMILIES FRIEND ↗
- Who funds DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds United Community Services of Johnson County Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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: Health Forward Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Sunderland Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
How this is measured
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