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William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee at a glance

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William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
142
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 142 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k49 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+15 grants · $9.7M
$38,823
Median grant
9
States reached
$288M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOREST PARK FOREVER INC$1,500,000
KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOC (UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CANCER CENTER)$1,000,000
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL$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
UMKC FOUNDATION (UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND$500,000
METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION TO COUNTER SEXUAL ASSAULT DBA MOCSA$500,000
THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST$500,000
GREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$250,000
KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY$250,000
KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE$250,000
URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS$250,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $200k → 8%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $20k → 5%UNCOVER KC: $40k → 8%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $250k → 15%SAFEHOME INC: $125k → 5%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $29k → 8%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $250k → 15%UNCOVER KC: $20k → 8%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $10k → 15%UNCOVER KC: $18k → 8%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $20k → 5%UNCOVER KC: $16k → 8%UNCOVER KC: $16k → 8%UNCOVER KC: $15k → 8%UNCOVER KC: $12k → 8%INTERNATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM INC: $50k → 11%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $40k → 15%INTERNATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM INC: $50k → 11%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $25k → 5%INTERNATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM INC: $50k → 11%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $150k → 21%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $30k → 21%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $10k → 15%AVENUE OF LIFE INC: $50k → 8%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $40k → 15%HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $100k → 15%MIGRANT AND IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT: $20k → 21%GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $50k → 21%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE OF JACKSON COUNTY: $150k → 15%DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURES: $50k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE OF JACKSON COUNTY: $150k → 15%COMMUNITY SERVICES LEAGUE OF JACKSON COUNTY: $10k → 15%DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY CIVIC VENTURES: $10k → 15%EPEC INC: $350k → 15%ACADMIE LAFAYETTE: $75k → 15%ACADMIE LAFAYETTE: $75k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $40k → 15%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $25k → 15%UNCOVER KC: $65k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $50k → 15%CREDIT AND HOMEOWNERSHIP EMPOWERMENT SERVICES: $25k → 15%TRUE LIGHT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $21k → 15%UNCOVER KC: $20k → 15%UNCOVER KC: $10k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $35k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64M · 121 repeat orgs$12M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
126

Total granted

$64M
$7.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+16%

Still filing today

79%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MB
    MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6.0M · revenue +14%
  • TO
    THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +200%
  • FP
    Forest Park Forever Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • PI
    PAWSPERITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $350k · revenue -45%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +16%
  • KC
    Kansas City CARE Clinicgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +39%
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
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
2
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

—
3
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
4
Greater St Louis Inc

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…

Community Improvement
5
St Louis Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
6
Mission St Louis

Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.

Community Improvement
7
Thomas Jefferson School

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…

—
8
St Louis Economic Development Partnership

Economic development.

—
9
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
10
Avila University

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,…

Education
11
The Downtown Council

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…

—
12
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures; 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.
04the grantee network

222 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. 222 of the 285 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
221/222
Grantees still filing
139/222
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST EDUCATION: $4,500,000 · EducationTHE OPPORTUNITY TRUST D/B/A ZEST ED…PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $4,005,000 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOLWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3,358,284 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $2,977,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTEWilliam Jewell College: $1,362,500 · EducationWilliam Jewell CollegeUMKC FOUNDATION: $1,229,287 · EducationJOHN BURROUGHS SCHOOL: $1,202,134 · EducationWellesley College: $1,114,000 · EducationKansas City University: $900,000 · Education+21 more: $2,951,000 · Education+21 moreThe Tower Grove Park Foundation: $1,500,000 · OtherThe Tower Grove Park FoundationUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY - KCUR RADIO: $1,020,000 · OtherGRACE AND HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL: $1,002,040 · OtherKANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOC (UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CANCER CENTER): $1,000,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $1,000,000 · OtherDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER: $1,136,000 · Other+91 more: $16,936,986 · Other+91 moreMISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES: $6,025,000 · EnvironmentMISSOURI BOTANI…Forest Park Forever Inc: $4,017,000 · EnvironmentForest Park For…+6 more: $548,698 · EnvironmentSAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $2,725,000 · Arts & CultureSAINT LOUIS SY…KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $1,050,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SY…NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI M…STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $750,000 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT THEA…THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $650,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIENDS OF…THE RABBIT HOLE KC: $546,300 · Arts & CultureTHE RABBIT HOL…ST LOUIS ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $350,000 · Arts & CultureOpera Theatre of Saint Louis: $325,000 · Arts & Culture+24 more: $2,338,500 · Arts & Culture+24 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $2,000,000 · HealthSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $750,000 · HealthAmethyst Place Inc: $750,000 · HealthSaint Lukes Foundation: $513,500 · HealthSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES: $150,000 · Health+4 more: $194,000 · HealthFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $510,000 · Human ServicesPAWSPERITY INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesCommunity Services League of Jackson County: $310,000 · Human ServicesUncover KC: $232,619 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $229,105 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS: $180,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL MENTORING PROGRAM INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesACADEMIE LAFAYETTE: $150,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesHIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED: $100,000 · Human Services+9 more: $420,167 · Human ServicesGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION: $750,000 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $500,000 · Community ImprovementCORTEX: $250,000 · Community ImprovementClayton Community Foundation: $90,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $40,000 · Community Improvement
Education$23,599,205Other$23,595,026Environment$10,590,698Arts & Culture$9,734,800Health$4,357,500Human Services$2,756,891Community Improvement$1,630,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 Kansas City Community Foundation: $765,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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 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 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 GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
  • 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 THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEUR STARTUP BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗

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 Found…Oppenstein Brothers F…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Health Forward Founda…Commerce Bancshares F…Marion and Henry Bloc…The Sunderland Founda…Greater Kansas City C…Jewish Community Foun…The Sosland FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The Kansas City Royal…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee. 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 →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
83report 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 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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