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Wooten McLiney Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Health$120kHuman Services$120kEducation$91kFood & Nutrition$81kHousing & Shelter$53kCommunity Improvement$45kAnimals$39kArts & Culture$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $61k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES$15,000
UMKC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$13,500
ST TERESA ACADEMY$12,950
PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$10,000
LEAST OF THESE$5,500
GYNCA$5,000
THE CHILDREN'S PLACE$3,000
KANSAS CITY ROSE SOCIETY$1,250
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 (FY17–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $15k → 14%LEAST OF THESE: $6k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $10k → 18%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $15k → 14%LEAST OF THESE: $6k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $8k → 14%LEAST OF THESE: $2k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $2k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $2k → 8%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $2k → 8%CARE TO LEARN: $1k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%LEAST OF THESE: $2k → 8%HELP GIVE HOPE: $5k → 15%HELP GIVE HOPE: $5k → 15%HELP GIVE HOPE: $5k → 15%HELP GIVE HOPE: $5k → 15%HELP GIVE HOPE: $5k → 15%HELP GIVE HOPE: $1k → 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$459k · 13 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$459k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+182%

Still filing today

85%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +29%
  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $53k · revenue +41%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
    2× · 2017–2018 · $39k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES AUSTIN TX
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • FC
    FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES OF AUSTIN TEXAS
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $5k

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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
3
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…

Health
4
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
5
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
6
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.

7
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
8
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

9
Choices Coordinated Care Solutions Inc

To strengthen youth and families while enhancing systems and communities.

Human Services
10
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
11
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

12
Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST JOSEPH CENTER — $37,500 · Human ServicesST JOSEPH CENTERGood Samaritan Boys Ranch — $35,000 · Human ServicesGood Samaritan Boys Ran…HELP GIVE HOPE — $26,000 · Human ServicesHELP GIVE HOPELEAST OF THESE INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesLEAST OF THESE INC+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $90,000 · HealthCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDA…GYN CANCERS ALLIANCE — $25,000 · HealthGYN CANCERS ALLIANCEFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES AUSTIN TX — $30,000 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES A…UMKC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $21,750 · OtherUMKC ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONGYNCA — $20,000 · OtherGYNCAFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES OF AUSTIN TEXAS — $15,000 · OtherFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES O…ST TERESA ACADEMY — $12,950 · OtherST TERESA ACADEMYUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL — $5,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $14,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC+5 more — $8,000 · Other+5 morePEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $75,000 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL …CONVOY OF HOPE — $60,000 · InternationalCONVOY OF H…FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $52,500 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION…HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI — $38,500 · Animals
Human Services$120,500Health$115,000Other$126,700Education$75,000International$60,000Housing & Shelter$52,500Animals$38,500

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 budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL — $75,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE — $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC — $52,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI — $38,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetST JOSEPH CENTER — $37,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHELP GIVE HOPE — $26,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGYN CANCERS ALLIANCE — $25,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetLEAST OF THESE INC — $21,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROSE SOCIETY — $2,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCare to Learn — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE
  • Who funds FOUNDATION COMMUNITIES INC
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch
  • Who funds HELP GIVE HOPE
  • Who funds GYN CANCERS ALLIANCE
  • Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds THE KANSAS CITY ROSE SOCIETY
  • Who funds Care to Learn
  • Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
  • Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY

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.

Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Wooten McLiney 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Wooten McLiney Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wooten McLiney Family Foundation 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 23 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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