Missouri · Private foundation
William T Kemper II Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $236k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 26
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations William T Kemper II Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 27 | $236k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $204k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $205k | 36% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $146k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $213k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $232k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pembroke Hill School | $135,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Musical Theater Heritage Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 2% |
| National Wwi Museum and Memorial | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $50,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Union Station Kansas City Inc | $45,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Derrick Thomas Neil Smith Third And | $42,500 | 5 | 19% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Happybottoms | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Amethyst Place Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| American Royal Association Inc | $32,500 | 3 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($326k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William T Kemper II Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sunderland Foundation · Bluescope Foundation North America · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600
How this is measured
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About William T Kemper II Charitable Trust
- How much does William T Kemper II Charitable Trust give?
- William T Kemper II Charitable Trust reported 28 grants totaling $236,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does William T Kemper II Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Education (21%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are William T Kemper II Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pembroke Hill School ($135k), Musical Theater Heritage Inc ($75k), National Wwi Museum and Memorial ($60k).
- Does William T Kemper II Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William T Kemper II Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William T Kemper II Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, The H & R Block Foundation.
- Where is William T Kemper II Charitable Trust based?
- William T Kemper II Charitable Trust is based in MO.
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