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Vivian & Hymie J Sosland Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of VIVIAN & HYMIE J SOSLAND CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k33 grants · $161k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $150,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KC | $100,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $50,000 |
| HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| KOSHER MEALS ON WHEELS | $25,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $25,000 |
| SYNERGY SERVICES INC | $25,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| CRISTO REY | $15,000 |
| RE-START INC | $10,000 |
| VILLAGE SHALOM | $10,000 |
| PAWSPERITY FKA THE GROOMING PROJECT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BOYS GROW | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +24% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 33 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK7× · 2018–2024 · $550k · revenue +40%
- HBHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +7%
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PFPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITYone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -19%
- AKABILITY KCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
- GSGUARDIAN SOCIETY - CAJEone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.
Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Nurture kc is a community collaboration dedicated to reducting infant mortality and improving family health. we work together to change policy for broad impact, transform systems to improve health outcomes at a local level, and provide…
Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Peace Partnership Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 98 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
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 HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RESTART INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds DE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Family Health Care Inc ↗
- Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
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: Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund
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 Vivian & Hymie J Sosland Charitable Trust 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.
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.
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