Missouri · Nonprofit
HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION
HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,377 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($160,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $139k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $432k
- Net assets
- $183k
What Historic Kansas City Foundation does
Mission
HKC protects, promotes, and preserves greater KC's historic places. Through advocacy and education, we bring people and organizations together to influence the future of KC's historic buildings and neighborhoods.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
EDUCATION - * ANNUAL MEMBER MEETING - The Annual Meeting is one of the many ways HKC engages with our membership. It's also the time we use to report on the performance of HKC and hold Board of Director elections. In celebration of HKC's 50th Anniversary, the annual meeting was held at the El Torreon, 3101 Gillham Plaza, on May 9th. Guest authors Bruce Mathews & Stephen Mitchell presented their new publication Janssen Place: A Unique Kansas City Neighborhood. (40 + attendees). * HISTORIC PRESERVATION AWARDS - The Historic Preservation Awards took place in the Century Club Ballroom at The Mark on Tuesday, November 12th at 6:30 pm. Through this awards program, Historic Kansas City congratulates our award recipients and thanks them for their contribution to preserving Kansas City's architectural heritage. Finalists were selected from nominations received from preservation supporters, prior award recipients, community leaders, and leadership from Historic Kansas City. The awards were announced before a live audience. The event showcased fifteen award-winning projects that honored our past. (203 + attendees) * THE GILDED AGE GARDEN PARTY - On Saturday, September 28th, 2024, we…
$41,706 spent45% of program spendingADVOCACY -* THE CARMEN BUILDING - HKC learned in February 2024, that the Carmen Building, at 101 W. Linwood Blvd, was threatened with demolition. HKC issued a Call to Action and worked in partnership with the Old Hyde Park Historic District Neighborhood to save it. On July 25th, the City Council APPROVED, by unanimous vote, the historic designation of the CARMEN BUILDING. The application also received the unanimous support of the Historic Preservation Commission, the City Planning Commission, and city staff. * MAIN STREET FORUM OF HISTORIC STREETCAR NEIGHBORHOODS - Historic Kansas City hosts quarterly meetings of the Main Street Forum of Historic Streetcar Neighborhoods (MSFSN), an alliance of midtown neighborhoods working to coordinate discussion and planning as the streetcar line extension is developed. In 2024, the MSFSN group worked together on multiple issues, the demolitions by the demolitions such as demolitions by KC Life within the Valentine Neighborhood, Sunflower proposal in Union Hill, rezoning of 4438-4450 Washington, 31st and Main, 4526 Warwick, designation of the Carmen Building at 111 W. Linwood, KCMO Public Engagement Study, Midtown traffic and parking issues,…
$51,788 spent55% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $93,494.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $140k to $312k (+123%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 7% · 2021 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Lisa Briscoe
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $19k → $13k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 58% · 2019 57% · 2020 95% · 2021 57% · 2022 99% · 2023 96% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
51% of HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION?
- HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $432,377 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($160,200). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $432,377 in grants to HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $160,200 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HISTORIC KANSAS CITY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing