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Vivian & Hymie J Sosland Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$756k
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Human Services$1.1MPhilanthropy$845kFood & Nutrition$750kReligion$732kEducation$475kHealth$405kEmployment$170kHousing & Shelter$170kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $161k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $245k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM$150,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KC$100,000
HARVESTERS$50,000
HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY$50,000
BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$25,000
KOSHER MEALS ON WHEELS$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
BOYS GROW$10,000
CROSS LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH$10,000
VILLAGE SHALOM$10,000
PAWSPERITY FKA THE GROOMING PROJECT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $5k → 16%SAFEHOME INC: $5k → 5%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%SAFEHOME INC: $5k → 5%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%SAFEHOME INC: $5k → 5%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%CROSS LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 16%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%SAFEHOME INC: $5k → 5%CROSS LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 16%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%SAFEHOME INC: $5k → 5%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%SAFEHOME INC: $5k → 5%CROSS LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 16%SAFEHOME INC: $5k → 5%CROSS LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $10k → 16%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $10k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $10k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $10k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $10k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $10k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $10k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $10k → 5%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $5k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES: $5k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE: $5k → 15%START AT ZERO: $5k → 15%START AT ZERO: $5k → 15%START AT ZERO: $5k → 15%GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $10k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 86 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
8

Total granted

$5.0M
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+24%

Still filing today

56%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthFood & NutritionEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HT
    HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
    7× · 2018–2024 · $550k · revenue +40%
  • HB
    HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +7%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • PF
    POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -19%
  • AK
    ABILITY KC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
  • GS
    GUARDIAN SOCIETY - CAJE
    one grant, 2018 · $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.

04Its field

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.

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
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health
3
Freedom House Ministries

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…

Education
4
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

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.

Community Improvement
5
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

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…

Health
6
Kc Common Good Inc

Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.

Employment
7
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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8
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
9
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
10
Nurture Kc

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…

Health
11
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
12
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

60 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. 60 of the 98 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
47/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM: $600,000 · OtherCONGREGATION BETH SHALOMJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $500,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITYJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KC: $225,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KC+65 more: $2,200,000 · Other+65 moreHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $550,000 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - …CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $55,000 · Food & NutritionCULTIVATE KAN…+1 more: $10,000 · Food & NutritionJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $80,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAM…VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE SH…CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesCROSS-LINE…RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $40,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIA…HOPE HOUSE INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE…SAFEHOME INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME I…SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SE…START AT ZERO INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSTART AT Z…FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHope Faith Ministries Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $20,000 · Human Services+4 more: $40,000 · Human Services+4 moreHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY: $140,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $45,000 · EducationROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $60,000 · Crime & LegalMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $35,000 · Crime & LegalPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $25,000 · Crime & LegalSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Crime & LegalGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PEACE PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $10,000 · PhilanthropyRESTART INC: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterSHEFFIELD PLACE: $35,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,525,000Food & Nutrition$615,000Human Services$470,000Education$225,000Crime & Legal$140,000Philanthropy$120,000Housing & Shelter$105,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $550,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY: $140,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $105,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRESTART INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC: $65,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $55,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER: $50,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: $48,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC: $40,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $40,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS: $40,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Health Care Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $35,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $35,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSeton Center Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPS FOR KIDS: $35,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJourney to New Life INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTART AT ZERO INC: $30,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHope Faith Ministries Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRIGHTFULLY SEWN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTLAND MENS CHORUS: $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetABILITY KC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN SERVING GREATER KANSAS CITY MISSOURI: $15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budget
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 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 FLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Family Health Care Inc ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY ↗

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.

Oppenstein Brothers F…Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…R a Long Foundation 6…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Menorah Heritage Foun…William T Kemper Foun…Marion and Henry Bloc…Jackson County Commun…
Oppenstein Brothers FoundationMO86.7× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Vivian & Hymie J Sosland Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vivian & Hymie J Sosland Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    21report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Vivian & Hymie J Sosland Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 98 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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