· Private foundation
William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k49 grants · $4.4M
- $250k+15 grants · $9.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOREST PARK FOREVER INC | $1,500,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOC (UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CANCER CENTER) | $1,000,000 |
| THE TOWER GROVE PARK FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC | $750,000 |
| AMETHYST PLACE INC | $750,000 |
| NINE NETWORK OF PUBLIC MEDIA DBA NINE PBS | $700,000 |
| GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION | $600,000 |
| THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST | $500,000 |
| METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION TO COUNTER SEXUAL ASSAULT DBA MOCSA | $500,000 |
| UMKC FOUNDATION (UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND | $500,000 |
| GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $250,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $250,000 |
| KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 74 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 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
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
- MBMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES4× · 2020–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +42%
- TOTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION5× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +200%
- FPForest Park Forever Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +88%
Funded once
- PIPAWSPERITY INCone grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue -45%
- SLST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +16%
- KCKansas City CARE Clinicgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +39%
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Economic development.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
The mission of the downtown council is to to create and maintain an urban environment that provides (1) economic reasons for businesses to be downtown, (2) a quality of life that encourages people to live downtown, and (3) enterainment and…
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures and the most unlike its peers is Clio Foundation. 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 36 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
222 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. 222 of the 285 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Tower Grove Park Foundation ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
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: 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
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 William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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.