Missouri · Nonprofit
THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905
THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905 (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,780 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($5,280). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trusteeshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas Cityshared funderslocalportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $3k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.7M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest The Kansas City Symphony Foundation); $61k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Kansas City Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905 raised.
From the IRS filings of THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905’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
THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
41% 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 THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2022 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905's grant income comes from Missouri funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trusteeshared funderslocalportfolio matchMO · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · funds 53 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMO · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas Cityshared funderslocalportfolio matchMO · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 62 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas and Sally Wood Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchKS · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Stephanie F Beeder and John W Beeder Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Merrill Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Miller-Mellor Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barton P & Mary D Cohen Charitable 1portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Belt Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Louis and Elizabeth Nave Flarsheim Charitableshared fundersTX · backs 19 organizations that share your funders
- Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600shared fundersMO · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 25 related entities
- Allen & Gloria Block Foundation · exempt
- Ann and Gary Dickinson Charitable Foundation · exempt
- George A & Dolly F Larue Trust · exempt
- Gkccf · exempt
- Greater Lee's Summit Healthcare Fdn · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905?
- THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905 (Missouri) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,780 to it, the largest being Schwab Charitable Fund ($5,280). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905 have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $12,780 in grants to THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905.
- Who is the largest funder of THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905?
- Schwab Charitable Fund is the largest funder on record, with $5,280 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 3funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing