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William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
142
Grants FY2024
95
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$38,823
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,500,000
Organizations funded a year
95 to 119
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$288M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving106$15M30%
FY202395$16M23%
FY2022119$16M39%
FY2021116$15M51%
FY2020119$14Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$24MArts & Culture$18MEnvironment$6.5MHealth$5.9MRecreation & Sports$5.9MHuman Services$3.7MCommunity Improvement$2.0MYouth Development$1.9MOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CA
UT
NE
MO
KS
TN
NC
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees$6,025,00044%
The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education$4,500,000514%
Forest Park Forever Inc$4,017,000211%
Pembroke Hill School$4,005,00035%
Washington University$3,358,28440%
Kansas City Art Institute$2,977,00053%
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra$2,725,00052%
The Children's Mercy Hospital$2,000,00020%
The Tower Grove Park Foundation$1,500,000466%
William Jewell College$1,362,50032%
Umkc Foundation$1,229,28732%
John Burroughs School$1,202,13423%
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center$1,136,00052%
Wellesley College$1,114,00040%
Kansas City Symphony$1,050,00051%
National Wwi Museum and Memorial$1,000,00053%
Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Inc$1,000,00023%
Kansas City University$900,00040%
Greater St Louis Inc Foundation$750,00037%
Starlight Theatre Association of Kansas City Inc$750,00022%
Samuel U Rodgers Health Center Inc$750,00012%
Amethyst Place Inc$750,00016%
Cardinal Ritter College Prep$700,0005n/a
The Friends of Chamber Music$650,000523%
Kansas City Public Library$562,5004n/a
The Rabbit Hole Kc$546,300313%
Saint Lukes Foundation$513,50023%
Fosteradopt Connect Inc$510,00031%
The State Historical Society of Missouri$500,00029%
Entrepreneur Startup Business Development Corporation$500,00054%
Ozarks Technical Community College Foundation$500,00037%
Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault$500,00014%
The Barstow School$500,00021%
Operation Breakthrough Inc$440,00031%
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City$430,00033%
The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs$418,00023%
The Children's Place Inc$353,48653%
St Louis Art Museum Foundation$350,00022%
Pawsperity Inc$350,00016%
St Louis Mercantile Library Association$350,0001n/a
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis$325,00051%
Jackson County Casa$318,84025%
Community Services League of Jackson County$310,00031%
The Nelson Gallery Foundation$302,50051%
Kansas City CARE Clinic$300,00011%
Independence Boulevard Christian Church$300,0001n/a
Kidstlc Inc$300,00021%
Urban League of Metropolitan St Louis$270,00020%
Newhouse Inc$250,00015%
Cortex$250,00011%
National College Advising Corps Inc$250,00011%
Child Protection Center Inc$250,00014%
Uncover KC$232,619428%
Synergy Services Inc$229,10521%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Missouri$220,00014%
Meds & Food for Kids$210,00023%
Progress in Education Inc$200,00022%
Veterans Community Project$200,00011%
Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc$200,00051%
Magnificent Missouri Inc$200,000417%
Kansas City Ballet Association$185,00051%
International Institute of Metropolitan St Louis$180,00021%
St Marys Church Kansas City$176,0002n/a
Mid-America Arts Alliance$175,00051%
The Kansas University Endowment Association$168,00040%
The Sheldon Arts Foundation$165,00052%
International Mentoring Program Inc$150,000329%
Swope Health Services$150,00010%
The Kansas African American Museum Inc$150,000111%
Academie Lafayette$150,00021%
Metropolitan Lutheran Ministry$150,00012%
Episcopal Church Diocese of Kans$148,0002n/a
Center of Creative Arts$125,00012%
Safehome Inc$125,00012%
Americans for Oxford Inc$125,00050%
Kansas City Chorale$120,500510%
City Garden Montessori School$120,00021%
United Way of Greater St Louis Inc$120,00040%
Kipp St Louis$120,00050%
School Smart Kc Inc$120,00031%
Kansas City Community Gardens Inc$119,87527%
Missouri Historical Society$112,00021%
High Aspirations Incorporated$100,00019%
The Launchcode Foundation$100,00011%
St Louis Area Food Bank Inc$100,00020%
Sherwood Center for the Exceptional Child$100,00021%
St Margaret of Scotland Catholic Church$100,0001n/a
Community Linc$100,00022%
Jewish Vocational Service Bureau of Kansas City$100,00012%
Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc$100,0001n/a
Wildwood Outdoor Education Center$100,00015%
Wonderscope Inc$100,00012%
Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy$100,00012%
Kc Common Good Inc$100,00027%
Cinema St Louis$100,00019%
Kansas State University Foundation$93,00050%
Police Foundation of Kansas City$85,00022%
Historic Kansas City Foundation$80,000418%
Contemporary Art Museum St Louis$80,00021%
Smithsonian Institution$75,00050%
Cultural Festivals$75,00057%
French Heritage Society Inc$70,40041%
Webster University$62,00020%
Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures$60,16726%
Deep Roots Kc Inc$55,00039%
The Eisenhower Foundation$55,00021%
Turn the Page Kc Inc$50,00012%
Crossroads Charter Schools$50,00010%
Umkc Trustees$50,00052%
Gateway Region Young Men's Christian Association$50,00010%
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival$50,00052%
Guadalupe Centers Inc$50,00010%
Welcome House Inc$50,00011%
Operation Food Search Inc$50,00010%
Turner House Clinic Inc$50,00010%
Avenue of Life Inc$50,00011%
Navy League of the United States St Louis Council$50,00017%
The Library Foundation for the Benefit of St Louis Public Library$50,00013%
Rotary Club Youth Camp Association$50,00014%
Kc Health Collaborative$50,000112%
Unity Society of Practical Christianity$50,0001n/a
Union Station Kansas City Inc$50,00010%
Foster Care Coalition of Greater St Louis$50,00010%
St Pauls Episcopal Day School Kansas City$50,0001n/a
Archcity Defenders$50,00011%
Orpheum Performing Arts Centre Ltd$50,00011%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of St Louis$50,00010%
St Louis Shakespeare Festival$50,00012%
St Louis Regional Crime Commission$50,000112%
Unity School of Christianity$50,0001n/a
Beacon Media Inc$50,000210%
Charlotte Street Foundation$50,00012%
The Youth Symphony Association$50,00052%
Happybottoms$50,00021%
Show Me KC Schools Inc$47,50034%
Support Kansas City Inc$45,00021%
Shawnee Mission Medical Center Inc$44,00040%
Clio Foundation$44,000236%
Cornerstones of Care$40,00010%
Digital Equity Program Office of Greater Kansas City Depo-Kc$40,0001n/a
United Inner City Services Inc$40,00011%
Connecting for Good$40,00015%
Focus St Louis$40,00013%
Atchison Amelia Earhart Foundation$40,00012%
Restart Inc$40,00010%
St Louis Art Place Initiative Inc$38,82319%
Hawthorn Leadership School for Girls$38,00011%
Hope House Inc$35,00010%
First Call Alcoholdrug Prevention Recovery$35,00011%
Kc Can Compost$35,00026%
William Allen White Foundation Inc$34,0001n/a
American Public Square Inc$30,00022%
Summerfest Concerts And-Or Recordings Inc$30,000417%
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States$30,00020%
Heartland Center for Jobs and Freedom Inc$30,00015%
Center for Developmentally Disabled$30,00010%
Archdiocese of St Louis$30,0001n/a
University Academy$29,35030%
Kansas City Young Audiences Inc$27,50021%
Levelup Kids Inc$26,00021%
Wornall-Majors House Museums Inc$25,67035%
Missouri Prairie Foundation$25,00011%
Northland Early Education Cent$25,00011%
Gary Sinise Foundation$25,00010%
Dream Builders 4 Equity$25,00012%
Counterpublic$25,00011%
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc$25,00011%
Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City$25,00016%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Kansas City$25,00010%
Credit & Homeownership Empowerment Services$25,0001n/a
Center for Conflict Resolution$25,00013%
Boston Daniels$25,0001n/a
Ssm Health Foundation - St Louis$25,00011%
Kol Rinah$25,0001n/a
Youth Entrepreneurs Inc$25,00010%
Minddrive Incorporated$25,00016%
The Repertory Theatre of St Louis$25,00011%
Radio Arts Foundation$25,00012%
Wepower$25,00012%
Alphapointe$22,50010%
The Lean Lab Inc Lean Lab Education$22,11021%
Boys Grow Corp$22,00013%
True Light Family Resource Center$21,10019%
St Louis Language Immersion School$20,00010%
Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project$20,00011%
National Main Street Center Inc$20,00011%
Village Shalom Inc$20,00010%
Missouri Appleseed$20,000110%
Sheffield Place$19,65511%
Pro Musica$18,00035%
Lilys House$17,00013%
Missouri Main Street Connection Inc$16,50021%
The Cultural Landscape Foundation$15,00011%
Community Capital Fund$15,00012%
Kanbe's Markets$15,00010%
Seed St Louis$15,00012%
Police Athletic League of Kcks$15,00012%
Clay County African American Legacy$15,000110%
Association of Missouri Charter Schools$15,00011%
National Museum of Toys and Miniatures$14,40011%
Bridging the Gap Inc$13,80010%
Womens Employment Network$13,35011%
Regional Business Council$12,50010%
AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation$12,00010%
Lyriks Institution$11,00011%
Society of Architectural Historians$10,00011%
Bionexus Kc$10,00010%
Reproductive Health Services of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers$10,00010%
National Council of Jewish Women St Louis Section$10,00011%
Jerusalem Farm$10,00011%
Right to Start$10,00010%
St Louis Regional Public Media Inc$10,0001n/a
The Golden Scoop LLC$10,00011%
Center for Practical Bioethics Inc$10,00011%
After the Harvest$10,00010%
Utah Film Center$10,00010%
Wright on Main Inc$9,7002n/a
Mpower Now Inc$9,500214%
Groundwork Northeast Revitalization$8,00011%
Jackson County Historical Society$7,50014%
Forsyth School Inc$7,00010%
The Willa Cather Foundation$7,00010%
Bach Aria Soloists Inc$6,05014%
The Sparrows Nest$6,00012%
Fair Saint Louis Foundation$5,50010%
Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Kansas City Inc$5,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Club of Alton Inc$5,00011%
Kansas City Police Officers Memorial Foundation$2,50011%
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey$2,50010%
The Marfan Foundation Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($9.8M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMissouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees: $6,025,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetThe Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education: $4,500,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetForest Park Forever Inc: $4,017,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPembroke Hill School: $4,005,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetWashington University: $3,358,284 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Art Institute: $2,977,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSaint Louis Symphony Orchestra: $2,725,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $1,500,000 over 4y, 66% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $1,362,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetUmkc Foundation: $1,229,287 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetJohn Burroughs School: $1,202,134 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDonald Danforth Plant Science Center: $1,136,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWellesley College: $1,114,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKansas City Symphony: $1,050,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetNational Wwi Museum and Memorial: $1,000,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Eastern Missouri Inc: $1,000,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetKansas City University: $900,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGreater St Louis Inc Foundation: $750,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetStarlight Theatre Association of Kansas City Inc: $750,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetSamuel U Rodgers Health Center Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $750,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetThe Friends of Chamber Music: $650,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetThe Rabbit Hole Kc: $546,300 over 3y, 13% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $513,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFosteradopt Connect Inc: $510,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetThe State Historical Society of Missouri: $500,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetEntrepreneur Startup Business Development Corporation: $500,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetOzarks Technical Community College Foundation: $500,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetMetropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault: $500,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Barstow School: $500,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOperation Breakthrough Inc: $440,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBoys Club of Greater Kansas City: $430,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs: $418,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetThe Children's Place Inc: $353,486 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSt Louis Art Museum Foundation: $350,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPawsperity Inc: $350,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $325,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJackson County Casa: $318,840 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCommunity Services League of Jackson County: $310,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe Nelson Gallery Foundation: $302,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $300,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKidstlc Inc: $300,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUrban League of Metropolitan St Louis: $270,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNewhouse Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCortex: $250,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNational College Advising Corps Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChild Protection Center Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

The H & R Block FoundationMO117.8× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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.

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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 142 grants totaling $15,488,378 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 95 and 119 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, 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 FY2024: Missouri Botanical Garden Board of Trustees ($6.0M), The Opportunity Trust D/B/A Zest Education ($4.5M), Forest Park Forever Inc ($4.0M).
Does William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% 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.

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 285 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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