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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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($5,280). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
3
Grants received
$13k
Net assets
$33M
0/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Kansas City Symphony Foundation 10026905 does

Mission

The kansas city symphony foundation is a not-for-profit endowment organization that aids and supports the greater kansas city community foundation

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. To aid in the support of the greater kansas city community foundation. In its support of the kansas city symphony orchestra and its cultural endeavors for the city of kansas city, missouri.

    $1,275,701 spentof which $1,275,701 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,275,701.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($785k) Net assets 100 ($32M)2018 Revenue 119 ($1.3M) Expenses 88 ($692k) Net assets 104 ($33M)2019 Revenue 214 ($2.4M) Expenses 100 ($786k) Net assets 107 ($34M)2020 Revenue 132 ($1.5M) Expenses 128 ($1.0M) Net assets 110 ($35M)2021 Revenue 78 ($854k) Expenses 97 ($765k) Net assets 128 ($40M)2022 Revenue 261 ($2.9M) Expenses 106 ($830k) Net assets 128 ($40M)2023 Revenue 93 ($1.0M) Expenses 177 ($1.4M) Net assets 122 ($39M)2024 Revenue 247 ($2.7M) Expenses 164 ($1.3M) Net assets 101 ($32M)2025 Revenue 226 ($2.5M) Expenses 188 ($1.5M) Net assets 104 ($33M)
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Revenue (226)Expenses (188)Net assets (104)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $39M to $32M (−19%).

$32M
$33M
$34M
$35M
$41M
$41M
$39M
$32M
$33M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$312k
’17
$613k
’18
$1.6M
’19
$452k
’20
$89k
’21
$2.0M
’22
−$368k
’23
$1.4M
’24
$1.0M
’25
14
months of
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.

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Listed77777777
Joined·+0+1+0+1+0·+4
No longer listed·01010·4
03Who funds it

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 10026905); $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.

41%
largest funder
100%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

MO

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like THE KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY FOUNDATION 10026905

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

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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.

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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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($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?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC 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 3 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing