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Wyandotte Health Foundation

Kansas City, KS · EIN 48-0547722. Reported 73 grants totalling $6,344,172 to 37 organizations across tax years 2020-2023. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$40,000median grant
$6,344,172granted, 2020-2023
37organizations funded
61%of grantees funded again the next year
$44.5Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Wyandotte Health Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $40,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $20,000 and $119,114; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $870,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
28 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
10 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 and Up
21 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Turner House - Vibrant HealthKansas City, KS$1,331,690442023
Kansas City Ks Community SchoolsKansas City, KS$930,000222023
Swope Health ServicesKansas City, MO$569,114442023
Caritas Clinic IncKansas City, KS$517,080442023
Kansas City Ks Public SchoolsKansas City, KS$465,250442023
Wyandot Behavioral Health NetworkKansas City, KS$458,420332022
Unified Government Health DepartmentKansas City, KS$373,152442023
The Family ConservancyKansas City, KS$350,000332022
Southwest Boulevard Family Health CareKansas City, KS$205,000222021
Mercy & Truth Medical MissionsKansas City, KS$182,750332023
Young Women on the MoveKansas City, KS$160,000222022
Community Health Council of Wyandotte CountyKansas City, KS$98,000442023
Ccnk - Alliance for Heathly KidsTopeka, KS$80,000442023
Family Health CareKansas City, KS$70,000112022
Kc Medical SocietyMerriam, KS$70,000222022
Wyjo CaresMission, KS$65,386222023
Avenue of LifeKansas City, KS$54,664222022
Pharmacy of GraceKansas City, KS$40,000112023
El Centro IncKansas City, KS$36,596222022
Kick MinistriesKansas City, KS$35,000112021
Children's Mercy Hospitals and ClinicsKansas City, MO$25,000112020
The Village Initiative IncKansas City, KS$25,000222021
Bethel Neighborhood CenterKansas City, KS$20,000222021
Kansas University Endowment AssociationLawrence, KS$20,000112021
Kc Healthy KidsKansas City, KS$20,000112021
St Paul's Episcopal ChurchKansas City, KS$20,000112021
Donnelly CollegeKansas City, KS$16,830112021
Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual AssaultKansas City, MO$15,000112022
Uncle Sam's Academy for TotsKansas City, KS$15,000112022
Veronica's VoiceKansas City, KS$11,705112022
Oak Ridge Youth Development SchoolKansas City, KS$11,535112022
CASA of Johnson & Wyandotte CountiesOverland Park, KS$10,000112022
Central Avenue Betterment Association IncKansas City, KS$10,000112020
Grandview Park Presbyterian ChurchKansas City, KS$10,000112023
Made Men IncKansas City, KS$10,000112020
University of Kansas Medical Center Research InstituteFairway, KS$10,000112021
Groundwork Northeast Revitalization GroupKansas City, KS$2,000112020

19 of 37 (51%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 61%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 32 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Health Care
10 grants
Human Services
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Religion
3 grants
Mental Health
3 grants
Crime & Legal
3 grants
Community Improvement
2 grants
Education
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202017$1,196,364$25,000
202123$1,678,194$35,000
202221$1,537,114$35,000
202312$1,932,500$67,500

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 90% of this one's giving went to organizations in Kansas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Kansas
$5.7M
Missouri
$609K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Health Forward Foundation18 shared recipientsGreater Kansas City Community Foundation14 shared recipientsUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc13 shared recipientsThe Sunderland Foundation12 shared recipientsJohn W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust10 shared recipientsEwing Marion Kauffman Foundation9 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $40,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kansas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Wyandotte Health Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 755 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, KS, 66117. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 48-0547722 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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