· Private foundation
W J Brace Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREP | $50,000 |
| CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC | $40,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KS & NW MO | $30,000 |
| WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC | $29,650 |
| HOPEBUILDERS HOME REPAIR INC | $25,000 |
| NORTHLAND SHEPHERDS CENTER | $20,000 |
| FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| KANSAS CITY CHAPTER OF YOUNG AUDIENCES | $15,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $15,000 |
| CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY | $15,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER CLAY COUNTY | $15,000 |
| GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| CAMPS FOR KIDS | $12,000 |
| NORTHLAND LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $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 (FY19–26, $173k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2026, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- CKCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC6× · 2020–2026 · $210k · revenue +89%
- RTRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc9× · 2017–2026 · $135k · revenue +181%
- NSNORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER8× · 2017–2026 · $122k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- KCKansas City CARE Clinicgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +176%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +67%
- KCKANSAS CITY FREE HEALTH CAREone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Acquire and develop real estate to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing to low-income homeowners while working to ensure a culturally, ethnically, and economically diverse and stable community where generations can thrive in place.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
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.
KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
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.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Good Meal 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 34 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) — 0% 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.
50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 65 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 CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds WATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND OUTREACH PROVIDERS ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds HOPEBUILDERS HOME REPAIR INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVING KIDSIGHT ↗
- Who funds MINDDRIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Hope Faith Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Conflict Resolution ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD CENTER FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN HERITAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHAPOINTE ↗
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 · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Edward & Kathryn Mader 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 W J Brace 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.