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Wellsky Foundation
See schedule oour mission is to improve the quality of life for vulnerable populations by removing social barriers to recovery and wellness.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $600,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $619,094 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $19,094 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMETHYST PLACE | $200,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC | $100,000 |
| PETE'S GARDEN | $100,000 |
| KANSAS CITY HOSPICE | $50,000 |
| CARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD | $50,000 |
| KANBE'S MARKETS | $50,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $705k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MLMOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC3× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +160%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +25%
- CBCARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD INC3× · 2023–2025 · $200k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- NCNational Court Appointed Special Advocate Associationone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
- SWSECOND WIND DREAMS INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -28%
- CPCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -58%
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
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
Established in 1934, vna helps older adults live with dignity and independence at home by providing in-home care, food and friendship for the ill, hungry, and homebound.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
To encircle those facing advanced illness with unprecedented levels of comfort, compassion, and expertise.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors.
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Originating from a christian commitment of service, we provide high quality care, services and communities for seniors
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels America and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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.
28 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.
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 Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds MOBILE LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds PETES GARDEN ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CARE BEYOND THE BOULEVARD INC ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Medical Angels ↗
- Who funds National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association ↗
- Who funds NORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds HEPHZIBAH CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds Ending Community Homelessness Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JOY MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENERATING INCOME FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA LIONS EYE CLINC INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds UPLIFT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Sewa International Inc ↗
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 · Menorah Heritage Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ima Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Hunt Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation
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 Wellsky Foundation 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.
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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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