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W J Brace Charitable Trust at a glance

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W J Brace Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$402k
Granted FY2026still arriving
20
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Human Services$620kHealth$524kArts & Culture$381kFood & Nutrition$346kEducation$325kHousing & Shelter$292kCommunity Improvement$240kYouth Development$156kOther$0
02FY2026 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $292k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE$20,000
NORTHLAND SHEPHERDS CENTER$20,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$15,000
CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY$15,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER CLAY COUNTY$15,000
GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$15,000
KANSAS CITY CHAPTER OF YOUNG AUDIENCES$15,000
CAMPS FOR KIDS$12,000
COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND$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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%OPERATION WARM: $3k → 10%PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $20k → 8%PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $15k → 8%HOPE CENTER INC: $15k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $13k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $13k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $10k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $10k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $10k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $10k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES: $20k → 15%HOPE FAITH MINISTRIES: $20k → 15%GRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 27 repeat orgs$796k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
31

Total granted

$2.4M
$721k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+20%

Still filing today

74%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • CK
    CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC
    6× · 2020–2026 · $210k · revenue +89%
  • RT
    Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc
    9× · 2017–2026 · $135k · revenue +181%
  • NS
    NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER
    8× · 2017–2026 · $122k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • KC
    Kansas City CARE Clinicgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +176%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY FREE HEALTH CARE
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +67%
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
Kansas City Community Land Trust

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.

Housing & Shelter
2
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
3
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
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
Kc Tenants

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

Civil Rights
6
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
7
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
8
Chain of Hope Kc

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

Animals
9
Kansas Action for Children Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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11
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
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

50 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. 50 of the 65 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
27/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL: $380,000 · OtherMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCILWATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC: $203,274 · OtherWATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INCHEARTLAND OUTREACH PROVIDERS: $107,200 · OtherHEARTLAND OUTREACH PROVIDERSPARTNERSHIP REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREP: $100,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPKansas City CARE Clinic: $100,000 · OtherKansas City CARE ClinicPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL: $90,000 · OtherHILLCREST HOPE MINISTRIES: $73,636 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $103,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INCCAMPS FOR KIDS: $84,000 · Other+25 more: $568,500 · Other+25 moreRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $135,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding T…RIVER OF REFUGE: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterRIVER OF REF…HOPEBUILDERS HOME REPAIR INC: $87,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPEBUILDERS…COMMUNITY LINC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LI…CULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $210,000 · Food & NutritionCULTIVATE …FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC: $85,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD EQUAL…ONE GOOD MEAL INC: $16,115 · Food & NutritionNORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER: $121,905 · Arts & CultureNORTHLAND…KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $40,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CI…HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $40,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF …KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CI…JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JAZZ MUSEUM: $15,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR YOUNG AMERICA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesHope Faith Ministries Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesPLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesGRANDVIEW ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED: $60,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $30,000 · EducationSHERWOOD CENTER FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD: $25,000 · EducationBRIGHT FUTURES FUND: $20,000 · EducationTHE LITERACY LAB: $10,000 · EducationWONDERSCOPE INC: $10,000 · EducationSAVING KIDSIGHT: $62,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $50,000 · HealthCenter for Conflict Resolution: $25,000 · HealthKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC: $15,000 · Health
Other$1,809,610Housing & Shelter$347,000Food & Nutrition$311,115Arts & Culture$284,405Human Services$172,500Education$155,000Health$152,000

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 budgetCULTIVATE KANSAS CITY INC: $210,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetWATKINS MILL ASSOCIATION INC: $203,274 over 8y, 72% of budgetRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc: $135,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetNORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER: $121,905 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetHEARTLAND OUTREACH PROVIDERS: $107,200 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $103,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRIVER OF REFUGE: $100,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPEBUILDERS HOME REPAIR INC: $87,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetFOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC: $85,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetCAMPS FOR KIDS: $84,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $80,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSAVING KIDSIGHT: $62,000 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED: $60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHope Faith Ministries Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY CASA: $35,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE MISSOURI INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $27,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Conflict Resolution: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSHERWOOD CENTER FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJerusalem Farm: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FUND: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTRUMAN HERITAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALPHAPOINTE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE GOOD MEAL INC: $16,115 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC: $15,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEARTLAND MENS CHORUS: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBIKE WALK KC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOperation Warm Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
  • Who funds Hope Faith Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds PLATTE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JACKSON COUNTY CASA ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds KVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
  • Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
  • Who funds Center for Conflict Resolution ↗
  • Who funds SHERWOOD CENTER FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LINC ↗
  • Who funds Jerusalem Farm ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FUND ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…The H & R Block Found…Oppenstein Brothers F…Health Forward Founda…The Sunderland Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Menorah Heritage Foun…The Francis Family Fo…William T Kemper Foun…Edward & Kathryn Made…Jackson County Commun…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO66.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 W J Brace Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from W J Brace Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    18report 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.

    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 65 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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