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William T Kemper II Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$363kEducation$261kYouth Development$195kHuman Services$142kHealth$88kRecreation & Sports$35kInternational$35kFood & Nutrition$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $124k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $113k
$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$25,000
BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$20,000
LIBERTY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION DBA NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL$20,000
PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL$15,000
AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION$12,500
AMETHYST PLACE INC$10,000
BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$10,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC$7,500
CITY UNION MISSION INC$7,500
SALVATION ARMY$7,500
GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHEAST KANSAS AND NORTHWEST MISSOURI INC$7,500
HAPPYBOTTOMS$7,500
UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC$7,500
MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC$7,500
HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS$7,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $6k → 16%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $6k → 16%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%SECRET ORDER OF THE KEY INCORPORATED: $8k → 5%SECRET ORDER OF THE KEY INCORPORATED: $8k → 5%SECRET ORDER OF THE KEY INCORPORATED: $5k → 5%THE DERRICK THOMASNEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%DERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%THE DERRICK THOMASNEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $8k → 15%DERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATION: $8k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $8k → 15%DERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND LONG FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 33 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
13

Total granted

$1.1M
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+55%

Still filing today

73%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther

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

  • PH
    PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +23%
  • MT
    MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +232%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
    3× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • PF
    PHEASANTS FOREVER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $18k
  • TS
    THOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTING FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +893% · 39% of their budget
  • GT
    GOING TO THE DOGS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
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2
Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc

The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…

Arts & Culture
3
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
4
The Kansas Learning Center for Health Inc

Health education & museum.

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5
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Inc

The mission of the kauffman school is to prepare students to excel academically, graduate from college and apply their unique talents in the world to create economically independent and personally fulfilling lives.

Education
6
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

—
7
Wornall-Majors House Museums Inc

The mission of the Wornall/Majors House Museums is to: preserve, protect, and maintain the John Wornall and Alexander Majors historic houses and their collections in an intentional, inclusive, and ethical way, and to preserve them so that…

Arts & Culture
8
Kansas Alpha of Phi Delta Theta Educational Foundation
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9
Fort Osage National Historic Landmark Association

Education

Philanthropy
10
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

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

Arts & Culture
11
Kansas City Symphony

Its mission is to perform great performances for greater audiences. the kansas city symphony will achieve this mission by: - developing an uncompromising performance standard. - advancing the profile and value of the orchestra locally,…

Arts & Culture
12
Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Derrick Thomas Neil Smith Third and. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%15%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr24%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%9%10–20yr15%25%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr24%38%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
13%
1,305/10,423

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $85,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GREATER KANSAS CITYLIBERTY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (NAT'L WWI MUSEUM) — $80,000 · OtherLIBERTY MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (NAT'L WWI MUSEUM)Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City — $40,000 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas CityAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION (MID-AMERICA CHAPTER) — $30,000 · OtherAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSOCIATION (MID-A…ALS - MID-AMERICA CHAPTER — $30,000 · OtherALS - MID-AMERICA CHAPTERKANSAS CITY CHORALE — $27,500 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL — $25,000 · OtherROTARY CLUB YOUTH CAMP ASSOCIATION — $25,000 · OtherCity Union Mission — $27,500 · OtherWildwood Outdoor Education Center — $20,000 · Other+15 more — $140,700 · Other+15 morePEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $135,000 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOLThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $50,000 · EducationThe Kansas University …OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $27,500 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH…THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $16,000 · EducationTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIB…BLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC — $15,000 · EducationBLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-…MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureMUSICAL THEATER HER…NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $60,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM…UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureUNION STATION KANSA…JACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 · Arts & CultureJACKSON COUNTY HIST…+2 more — $8,500 · Arts & CultureDERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND — $42,500 · Human ServicesDERRICK TH…HAPPYBOTTOMS — $35,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTO…Secret Order Of The Key Incorporated — $20,000 · Human ServicesSecret Ord…KC Healthy Kids — $17,000 · Human ServicesKC Healthy…AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $32,500 · Recreation & SportsTHOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTING FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $27,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentAmethyst Place Inc — $35,000 · HealthNORTHLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER — $5,000 · Health
Other$530,700Education$243,500Arts & Culture$208,500Human Services$114,500Recreation & Sports$52,500Youth Development$45,000Health$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $135,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC — $75,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDERRICK THOMAS NEIL SMITH THIRD AND — $42,500 over 5y, 19% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS — $35,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC — $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY CHORALE — $27,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $27,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCity Union Mission — $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB YOUTH CAMP ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $20,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetSecret Order Of The Key Incorporated — $20,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKC Healthy Kids — $17,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK ARCHIVES OF MID-AMERICA INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI — $12,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFranklin County Historical Society — $12,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTHOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTING FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetHEARTLAND THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHEALTH OUTREACH FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetARTS COUNCIL OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The H & R Block Found…William T Kemper Foun…The Sunderland Founda…Bluescope Foundation …Hallmark Corporate Fo…United Way of Greater…Oppenstein Brothers F…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…The Francis Family Fo…Arvin Gottlieb Charit…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO43.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 II Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to William T Kemper II Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to William T Kemper II Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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