· Private foundation
Thomas and Sally Wood Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $55,000 |
| KEMPER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $20,000 |
| FOLD OF HONOR KANSAS CITY | $20,000 |
| ST LUKE'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM | $15,000 |
| KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES | $15,000 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $15,000 |
| UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| POWELL GARDENS | $10,000 |
| VETRANS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| THE JEWEL BALL | $10,000 |
| WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL | $10,000 |
| AMETHYST PLACE | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $295k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches8× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +46%
- KMKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +7%
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS CANCER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $15k
ARTS ALLIANCE TULSA INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -5%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
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…
The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
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…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Golf Foundation of Kansas City. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 66 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ROYAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
- Who funds JEWEL BALL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA PBS INC ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds QUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · William T Kemper Charitable Trust 10015200 · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · Copaken Family Foundation
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 Thomas and Sally Wood Family Foundation 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.
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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