· Private foundation
Womack Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KU ENDOWMENT | $13,000 |
| PPGP | $10,000 |
| PPFA | $2,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $2,000 |
| GSKSMO | $1,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER KC | $1,000 |
| KC INDIAN CENTER | $1,000 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER | $1,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE | $1,000 |
| CITY UNION MISSION | $1,000 |
| NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| UNION STATION | $1,000 |
| NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
29 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +119%
- CUCity Union Mission6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +5%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- KEKU Endowment Univ of KSone grant, 2020 · $11k
- KRKC Repertory Theatreone grant, 2020 · $1k
- TNThe Nelson Atkins Museum of Artone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
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.
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…
To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
As the nation's foremost producer of shakespeare and new work, the public theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an american theater that is accessible and relevant to all people through productions of…
The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…
The philadelphia convention & visitors bureau (phlcvb) is the official tourism promotion agency for the city of philadelphia globally, and the sales and marketing agency for the pennsylvania convention center (pcc). phlcvb markets…
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
Theater mu produces great performances born of arts, equity, and justice from the heart of the asian american experience.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF KC INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSONS EXERCISE AND WELLNESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Merrill Charitable Foundation · Nichols Company Charitable Trust · Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Womack Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Womack Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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