Missouri · Private foundation
William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $16M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 130
- Grants FY2025
- 106
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 95 to 119
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $293M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 104 | $16M | 17% |
| FY2024 | 106 | $15M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 95 | $16M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 119 | $16M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 116 | $15M | 51% |
| FY2020 | 119 | $14M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees | $6,175,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Forest Park Forever Inc | $5,134,000 | 3 | 11% |
| The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education | $5,000,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Pembroke Hill School | $4,005,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Kansas City Art Institute | $3,477,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Washington University | $3,358,284 | 4 | 0% |
| Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra | $2,825,000 | 6 | 2% |
| William Jewell College | $2,662,500 | 4 | 3% |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $2,400,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Tower Grove Park Foundation | $1,500,000 | 4 | 66% |
Show all 242 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Sosland Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Kansas City Royals Foundation
How this is measured
Compare William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee with peer funders
About William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
- How much does William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee give?
- William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee reported 130 grants totaling $16,204,153 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 119 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (23%), Environment (8%).
- Who are William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($6.2M), Forest Park Forever Inc ($5.1M), The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education ($5.0M).
- Does William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The H & R Block Foundation, Oppenstein Brothers Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
- Where is William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee based?
- William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee is based in MO.
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