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Witschner Ira K Trust D at a glance

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Witschner Ira K Trust D

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$70kYouth Development$28kEmployment$10kInternational$9kHuman Services$9kCommunity Improvement$8kArts & Culture$5kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$300k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONNELLY COLLEGE$5,000
YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $3k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $5k → 15%HOPE CENTER: $1k → 15%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $5k → 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.
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 8 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 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

8
8

Total granted

$105k
$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureCivil RightsHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • DC
    Donnelly College
    7× · 2017–2025 · $39k · revenue +166%
  • GJ
    GREAT JOBS KC INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +251%
  • OB
    OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $9k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • YA
    YOUTH AMBASSADORS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +179%
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
Compass Kc Inc

Interfacing with inner-city teens to teach job skills performance in the marketplace and how to gain workplace experience with employers as mentors.

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2
Mo Kan 2020 Vision Inc

The mission of 20/20 leadership is to provide high school students unique experiential learning opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom, develop resilient leaders, and build stronger communities.

Youth Development
3
Kansas City Urban Youth Academy Inc

To provide kansas city youth with the opportunity to develop into high character, productive members of society and learn the skills of baseball.

Recreation & Sports
4
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City

The organization promotes the personal development of boys and girls ages 5-18, with special concern for the disadvantaged by providing services that build self-esteem, values and skills during critical periods of growth.

Youth Development
5
Jobs for America's Graduates - Kansas I

Jag-k is committed to partnering with students to help them overcome challenges, graduate from high school, and prepare for college or career pathways that will help them reach their full potential as leaders for their families, employers,…

Education
6
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc

Junior achievement accelerates economic opportunity and mobility for youth through cross-sector collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that improve educational and economic outcomes for students.

International
7
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.

—
8
The Kansas Youth Empowerment Academy Incorporated

To educate, mentor & support youth with disabilities to be contributingmembers of their community.

Youth Development
9
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
10
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
11
Elevate Metro Kc

Building long-term, life-changing relationships with youth, equipping them to thrive and contribute to their community.

Education
12
Junior Achievement of Kansas Inc

To encourage, promote, supervise, and develop educational programs designed to give youths experience in industry and business by making it possible for them to learn by doing, to provide them with an opportunity to learn about the…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Breakthrough Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cornerstones of Care. 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

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Donnelly College: $38,500 · EducationDonnelly CollegeMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED: $13,000 · EducationMINDDRIVE INCORPORATEDGREAT JOBS KC INC: $10,000 · EducationGREAT JOBS KC INCOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $9,250 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INCCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $14,000 · OtherCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTER…Individual grant recipient: $8,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE: $8,000 · OtherBOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPENORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 · OtherNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTERDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER: $4,250 · OtherDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTERYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUTH AMBASSA…COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND: $7,600 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY CAP…CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $7,500 · Human ServicesCORNERSTON…Youth Volunteer Corps: $5,000 · Human ServicesYouth Volu…THE HOPE CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE C…URBAN RANGER CORPS: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCASA OF JOHNSON & WYANDOTTE COUNTIES INC: $3,000 · Civil RightsWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $2,000 · Environment
Education$70,750Other$39,750Arts & Culture$17,600Human Services$13,500Housing & Shelter$5,000Civil Rights$3,000Environment$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDonnelly College: $38,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMINDDRIVE INCORPORATED: $13,000 over 4y, 70% of budgetYOUTH AMBASSADORS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGREAT JOBS KC INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $9,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUND: $7,600 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Volunteer Corps: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN RANGER CORPS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDE LA SALLE EDUCATION CENTER: $4,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF JOHNSON & WYANDOTTE COUNTIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…The H & R Block Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Sherman Family Fo…R a Long Foundation 6…Oppenstein Brothers F…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Servant FoundationJackson County Commun…Ash Grove Charitable …Greater Horizons
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO32.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Servant Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · Greater Horizons

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 Witschner Ira K Trust D funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Witschner Ira K Trust D. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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