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United Way of Wyandotte County

The UNITED WAY OF WYANDOTTE COUNTY's mission is to increase the community's understanding of human needs and to mobilize resources to meet those needs.

$1.6M
Granted FY2019
34
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$362k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.

Human Services$2.4MHealth$676kCommunity Improvement$251kCrime & Legal$241kPublic Safety & Disaster$217kYouth Development$141kFood & Nutrition$99kRecreation & Sports$78kOther$0
02FY2019 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 34 grants below total $1,215,830 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,635,356 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $419,526 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 · FY2019

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $556k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $281k
  • $250k+1 grant · $362k
$20,357
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY$362,315
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS$92,821
EL CENTRO INC$74,167
DUCHESNE CLINIC$63,807
CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC$50,566
BETHEL NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$42,625
AVENUE OF LIFE$39,797
RIVERVIEW HEALTH SERVICES$39,084
METRO LUTHERAN MINISTRIES$38,128
KVC PRAIRIE RIDGE HOSPITAL$25,294
KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS - EASTERN KS CHAPTER$22,818
SUNFLOWER HOUSE$22,457
MOCSA$21,757
KCK HUGGERS SPECIAL OLYMPICS$20,982
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–19, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CAMP WOOD YMCA: $10k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $36k → 15%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $587k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $397k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $362k → 5%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $14k → 15%AVENUE OF LIFE: $40k → 16%KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE: $50k → 5%KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE: $48k → 5%KVC PRAIRIE RIDGE HOSPITAL: $25k → 5%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS: $18k → 16%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS: $17k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $15k → 16%AVENUE OF LIFE: $6k → 16%SHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS: $5k → 16%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EASTERN KS CHAPTER: $59k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS - EASTERN KS CHAPTER: $57k → 16%ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $18k → 16%ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $18k → 16%ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $51k → 16%CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $12k → 16%CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $12k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 34 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
1

Total granted

$4.1M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+259%

Still filing today

85%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • TF
    THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.3M · revenue +6%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $331k · revenue +24%
  • EC
    EL CENTRO INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $217k · revenue +175%

Funded once

  • MC
    MT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +259%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Kansas City Care Clinic

The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.

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3
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
4
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
5
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
6
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

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.

Health
7
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
8
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
9
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

—
10
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
11
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
12
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kck Huggers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%6%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr24%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr16%1%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr24%70%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
1,173/9,071

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY — $1,345,754 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCYAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $139,182 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapte…KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC — $122,926 · Human ServicesKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INCCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $74,757 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $64,203 · Human Services+5 more — $176,051 · Human Services+5 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC — $331,083 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KAN…BETHEL NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER — $130,094 · OtherBETHEL NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERRiverview Health Services Inc — $116,460 · OtherRiverview Health Services IncMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY — $107,973 · OtherMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRYKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC — $95,846 · OtherKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INCKCK HUGGERS INC — $77,528 · OtherKCK HUGGERS INCVAUGHN-TRENT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $63,016 · OtherCornerstones of Care — $56,986 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $53,323 · OtherSALVATION ARMY — $43,937 · Other+7 more — $211,196 · Other+7 moreCARITAS CLINICS INC — $191,824 · HealthCARITAS CLI…TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC — $95,578 · HealthTURNER HOUS…MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $76,480 · HealthMATTIE RHOD…CANCER ACTION INC — $49,444 · HealthCANCER ACTI…EL CENTRO INC — $217,357 · Community ImprovementSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC — $77,456 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $67,822 · Crime & LegalGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $59,758 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $39,502 · Youth DevelopmentCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC — $46,240 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $17,363 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$1,922,873Other$1,287,442Health$413,326Community Improvement$217,357Crime & Legal$145,278Youth Development$99,260Food & Nutrition$63,603

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY — $1,345,754 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC — $331,083 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEL CENTRO INC — $217,357 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCARITAS CLINICS INC — $191,824 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $139,182 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE INC — $122,926 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRiverview Health Services Inc — $116,460 over 3y, 13% of budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY — $107,973 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC — $95,846 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC — $95,578 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetKCK HUGGERS INC — $77,528 over 3y, 72% of budgetSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC — $77,456 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER — $76,480 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC — $74,757 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT — $67,822 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $64,203 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $59,758 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc — $53,323 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $51,205 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetCANCER ACTION INC — $49,444 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC — $46,240 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetAVENUE OF LIFE INC — $45,341 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF THE HEARTLAND — $42,737 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $42,009 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY KANSAS — $39,695 over 3y, 22% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $39,502 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCASA OF JOHNSON & WYANDOTTE COUNTIES INC — $37,621 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC — $35,331 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCAMP WOOD YMCA INC — $34,580 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMT CARMEL REDEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC — $33,400 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $17,363 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHWC INC — $5,417 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKC Healthy Kids — $5,230 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…Menorah Heritage Foun…Oppenstein Brothers F…R a Long Foundation 6…The H & R Block Found…John W and Effie E Sp…Kansas Health Foundat…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Bluescope Foundation …Jewish Community Foun…
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO66.3× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The H & R Block Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Kansas Health Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City

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 United Way of Wyandotte County 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2020) is on record and reports $1.6M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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