IMPACT
Investing in Children. Strengthening Community.
We began 2023 with three goals: More funding. More staf. More space.
In support of the frst goal, we announced our most ambitious funding plan ever. Three Core Funding opportunities over a 16-month period, in addition to launching two new funding categories around Capacity Building and Collaboration. We also shared the new Community Impact Framework that would help guide our funding decisions. With a focus on Prevention and Resilience, this framework outlined CSF’s desired outcomes around strengthened mental health, reduced abuse and neglect, and increased skills and knowledge around personal safety and socialemotional wellbeing.
The frst Core Funding opportunity was for Calendar Year 2024, resulting in $15.7M being awarded in support of 86 projects across 72 partner organizations. The second Core Funding opportunity was for two years of funding for Academic Years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, and the third Core Funding opportunity will also be for two years of funding for Calendar Years 2025 & 2026. We’ll talk more about those two opportunities in next year’s report.
Capacity Building was born from the desire to invest not only in children, but also in the organizations that serve them. The goal was to support organizations seeking to improve their performance by investing in either staf capacity, such as training or certifcation, or organizational capacity, such as strategic planning or organizational change initiatives. Envisioned as a multi-year investment, the CSF funded 38 capacity building projects in 2023, with those projects slated to receive $4.9M over the next three years.
If Capacity Building was about investing in organizations individually, Collaboration is about investing in projects that bring organizations together…that leverage expertise not found at any single organization in support of driving community level-impact. The frst two Collaboration awards were made in November of 2023 and will see the CSF invest $3.2M into those two projects over the next four years.
In support of these opportunities, we grew our team. Our Program Team expanded with the addition of Jovanna Rohs as Chief Program Ofcer and Bernadette Spooner Thompson as an additional Program Ofcer. Our Finance Team additions included Shannon Dupree as our Accounting Specialist and Celeste Ortiz as our Contract Administrator. They have all brought skills and value to what w
In the fnal weeks of 2023, we settled into our new home at 2345 Grand. In addition to ofce and conference space for our team, we also created the CSF Community Room. This space not only supports meetings with both our Board and our partners but is also a space where outside organizations can gather to meet, train, and collaborate.
So much good in 2023…looking ahead to creating more impact for
ROB WHITTEN Chief Executive Ofcer
Where we invest for impact
We fund 10 service areas to promote the mental health and social-emotional well-being of Jackson County children 19-years-old and younger.
HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED INTERVENTION
These important services allow children and youth to access behavioral health interventions in their homes and communities.
INDIVIDUAL, GROUP, AND FAMILY COUNSELING
Supportive services promote the wellbeing of children and families with psychological evaluations, mental health screenings, and therapy.
OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT
Children receive comprehensive mental health care services from evaluation and diagnosis to treatment and medication management.
PREVENTION
Children and youth build resilience through services that develop socialemotional skills, enhance coping skills, strengthen relationships, and increase community engagement—ultimately decreasing the likelihood that they will develop substance use and mental health issues.
SERVICES TO TEEN PARENTS
TO 1 ORGANIZATION
Young parents are supported in the development of positive parenting skills, receiving adequate counseling and behavioral health services, and resources and referrals for additional support needs. $124,352 TO 1 ORGANIZATION 33
TEMPORARY SHELTER
Safety and stability are vital to healthy development. These services provide up to 30 days of shelter for youth experiencing abuse, neglect, homelessness, or other housing barriers. $550,000 TO 3
TRANSITIONAL LIVING
Counseling and supportive services are an integral part of programs that help youth transition from homelessness to safe living arrangements.
THREE ELIGIBLE SERVICE AREAS THAT WERE NOT FUNDED IN 2023:
CRISIS INTERVENTION
In response to acute mental health crises, these services focus on rapidly restoring a child’s baseline functioning.
OUTPATIENT SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT
TO 5
52,120 TOTAL
Youth and families receive therapeutic services including assessments, early intervention, education, counseling, therapy and aftercare.
RESPITE CARE
Families with kids get access to temporary emergency shelter during crises or periods of stress in order to safely preserve the family unit.
AREA AMOUNT
CHILDREN SERVED
SERVICE
AWARDED
ORGANIZATIONS 7,558
$ 4,479,940 TO 23
$ 4,622,839
ORGANIZATIONS 8,173
TO 27
$34,915
22
$5,757,408
39 ORGANIZATIONS 35,572
TO
ORGANIZATIONS
436
$971,108
ORGANIZATIONS 326
Our
team
ROB WHITTEN Chief Executive Ofcer
MOJI SHOGBAMIMU Chief Financial Ofcer
JOVANNA ROHS Chief Program Ofcer
SETH BAKER Program Ofcer
KATHERINE RIVARD Program Ofcer
BERNADETTE SPOONER THOMPSON Program Ofcer
SUE RICHTER Operations Manager
CELESTE ORTIZ Contract Administrator
SHANNON DUPREE Accounting Specialist
Our board
JESSICA RAMIREZ Chair
District 5, Exp 3.31.25
AMY HARRIS Vice Chair
District 1, Exp 3.31.24
JUDY MORGAN Secretary
District 1, Exp 3.31.25
AJIA MORRIS Treasurer
District 2, Exp 3.31.24
BRIAN KABERLINE
District 3, Exp 3.31.24
MEG MCCALL
District 4, Exp 3.31.26
MONICA MEEKS
District 6, Exp 3.31.26
ANN MESLE
District 1, Exp 3.31.25
Our partners
From early childhood to late adolescence. In homes, in schools, and in the community. Our funded partners are doing important, innovative work for kids.
Our partnerships reach beyond just funding. We devote ourselves to supporting organizations through site visits, consulting, and day-to-day engagement as they work to give hope to every child in Jackson County.
AWARD AMOUNT KIDS SERVED Amethyst Place Therapeutic Family Support Services $210,000 89 Big
$50,000 35 Boys & Girls
Child Development Program $270,000 2,150 Calvary Community Outreach Network Helping Youth Plan for Excellence $70,000 67 Campfre Heartland SEL Programming Support for Children $76,660 332 SEL Support for JusticeInvolved Youth $64,640 175 Catholic Charities of Kansas City St. Joseph Promoting Parenting Skills & Childhood SEL $150,000 46 Center for Confict Resolution Breaking Cycles of Violence $111,600 1,966 Center School District #58 Elementary School-based Social Workers $279,873 1,142 Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA) Clinical Services: Sustaining Impact $257,241 178 Expanding SchoolBased Prevention and Community Education $153,290 360 AWARD AMOUNT KIDS SERVED Child Protection Center, Inc. ACT Raising Safe Kids $155,000 339 Child and Family Trauma Treatment Program $135,992 168 Children’s Mercy Hospital TIES - Team for Infants Exposed to Substance abuse $195,000 68 Citizens of the World Kansas City Building a Trauma Informed School $153,000 445 Community Assistance Council CAC’s Empower Program (Hickman Mills) $98,000 148 Community LINC Homeless Youth and Children’s Safe Haven $153,000 117 Community Services League Family Stability Initiative $180,000 380 Comprehensive Mental Health Services, Inc. PUSH: Jackson County School Prevention and Therapy Program $218,121 1,123 Core Changing Concepts Community Core ChangingViolence Prevention Project $50,000 88 Cornerstones of Care Functional Family Therapy $265,000 64 Mental Health Prevention and Intervention Services $250,000 546 Crossroads Charter Schools Comprehensive Student Counseling Program $197,691 1,654
Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City Mentoring to Support Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
Clubs of Greater Kansas City Whole
Our partners (cont’d)
AWARD AMOUNT KIDS SERVED DeLaSalle
Center The Kairos Program $225,000 200 Drumm
$232,024 135 EarlystART Mental Health Intervention
$135,000 148 Easterseals
$180,000 15
$153,000 460 Empowering
KC EPKC Therapeutic Services $135,000 186 Every Child’s Hope Community-Based Transitional Living at Steppingstone $335,000 21 Temporary Shelter at Steppingstone $262,500 49 Familyworks, Inc. Brainworks Virtual Residential Treatment Program $160,000 40 First Call Alcohol/Drug Prevention & Recovery First Call Family Services $126,365 90 Foster Adopt Connect Behavioral Interventionist Program $170,000 14 Fostering PreventionJackson County $131,218 54 Front Porch Alliance –Kansas City Neighborhood Families: Early Childhood Education $175,000 188 Genesis School Genesis School Counseling and Wellness Program $100,000 61 AWARD AMOUNT KIDS SERVED Gilda’s Club Kansas City Gilda’s Club KC Children, Teen, and Family Programming $11,603 136 Gordon Parks Elementary School Improved Mental Health and Well-Being Supports in School $128,030 172 Grandview Assistance Program Putting Students First $57,265 68 Green Works in Kansas City ECOS Urban Outdoor Nature Discovery $41,300 222 Guadalupe Centers Bilingual Substance Use Prevention for Adolescents & Youth $106,687 497 Enhanced Bilingual Child & Youth Counseling & Therapy $107,000 43 Hillcrest Ministries of MidAmerica, Inc. New Youth Transitional Living Program in Jackson County $134,108 15 Hope House, Inc. Hope House’s Children’s Services Program $104,576 163 Hope House Guardian Program $185,563 126 Independence School District Expanded Family Services Initiative $258,500 1,450 Hispanic Outreach, Partnership and Engagement Services $200,300 1,078 Jackson County CASA Intervention and Advocacy for Children $217,350 167 Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Intervention and Advocacy $171,000 164 Jewish Family Services Child and Family Counseling $110,000 53 YouBeYou $66,600 14,220 Jewish Vocational Service JVS Social Work - Youth (JVS Youth) $275,000 278
Education
Center for Children Drumm Farm Clinical Expansion Project
Program (MHIP)
Midwest ABA Therapy
Emmanuel Family & Child Development Center Trauma Smart Continuum of Care at EFCDC
Parents
Kansas City CARE Clinic (KC CARE Health Center) Psychiatry and Behavioral Healthcare at Homeroom Health
Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy SEL Team Supports Positive Mental Health Outcomes
Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care Grief Support & Counseling for Youth Impacted by Trauma/Loss
AWARD AMOUNT KIDS SERVED
$214,752 11
Kansas City Autism Training Center Treatment for Jackson County Kids on the Autism Spectrum
$34,915
22
$144,203
61
$135,000 180
Alternative
$87,500 206 KC Healthy Kids Healthy Kids Bright Futures $90,000 371 KIPP:
Health
In
$125,000 43 KVC
$240,000
Strong
Connected
$157,500 58 Mattie Rhodes Center Violence Intervention and Prevention - In School Services $175,000 558 Metro Lutheran Ministry Prevention and Re-Housing for Youth and Families $87,500 301 MOCSA Preventing Sexual Violence in Jackson County Schools $265,254 2301 Sexual Violence Counseling for Children in Jackson County $288,467 62 Mother’s Refuge Therapy and Shelter for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies $124,352 33 AWARD AMOUNT KIDS SERVED Transitional Living Program for Young Mothers and Babies $210,000 15 Newhouse Reversing the Negative Developmental Impact of Violent Trauma $211,348 68 Nurture KC Moving Beyond Depression Promise 1000 Partnership $276,030 101 Promise 1000 - Collective Impact Home Visiting $300,000: 88 Operation Breakthrough Children and Youth Collaborative Mental Health Services $275,000 544 Peace Partnership Peace Partnership In-School Counseling Program $55,677 83 Police Athletic League of Kansas City, Inc. PAL Wellness & Resiliency Program $105,000 5,753 Preferred Family Healthcare STEP UP - Independence $154,015 117 STEP UP - Raytown $200,381 133 Raytown C-2 Public School District Raytown Connect $195,221 1,221 ReDiscover School-Based Mental Health Services $129,780 370 Show Me Zero Youth Suicide Project (Zero Suicide) $231,240 285 reStart, Inc. Youth Emergency Shelter $200,000 86 Youth Street Outreach Services (YSOS) $210,000 175 Rose Brooks Centers Project SAFE In-School Violence Prevention Program $253,980 654 SAFE Futures Program $144,471 1,206
Kansas City Public Schools Restorative Justice
School Support Model
Endeavor Academy Mental
& Healing
Schools
Missouri (formerly Niles) KVC Niles Day Prep Treatment: Helping Youth Heal from Trauma
72
and
Families
Our partners (cont’d)
AWARD AMOUNT KIDS SERVED Saint Luke’s Hospital (Crittenton) Smart Connections In-Home Mental Health Services $295,000 38 Samuel
Rodgers Health Center Blue Springs School
$205,920 242 Parent Education Expansion $215,073 945 Shefeld Place Immediate Crisis Intervention for Children $139,000 158 Start at Zero Evidence-Based Family Visiting $130,500 175
Health Services Swope Health: Prevention & Early Intervention Services $61,000 82 Swope Health: Prevention Education and Teen Parent Program $77,300 221 Synergy Services, Inc. School Based Integration Services $236,856 34 AWARD AMOUNT KIDS SERVED The Children’s Place, Inc. Day Treatment Program $171,927 73 The Family Conservancy Childhood Mental Health $300,000 406 The Plaza Academy School Based Mental Health Services for At-risk Adolescents $103,500 73 The Transition Academy Creating Transition Success For Central City Youth With Disabilities $112,500 220 University Health TMC, Hope Leadership, Crossroads & DeLaSalle –Enhancing Futures $300,000 59 YMCA of Greater Kansas City The Y’s Children’s Behavioral Health Expansion Project $251,303 1,762 Youth Guidance Becoming A Man (BAM) $90,000 144 Working On Womanhood (WOW) $90,000 117
Strategic initiatives Two
our Strategic Initiatives funding in 2023: Saint Luke’s Hospital (Crittenton) Trauma Smart: Raytown
Award Amount: $164,698
U
District Expansion
Swope
partners received support from
Schools
Capacity Building Awards
We believe it’s important to not only invest in services for children, but also in the organizations that provide those services. Through awards for Capacity Building, we partner with organizations to improve performance through the development and strengthening of skills.
Amethyst Place Award Amount: $120,000
Calvary Community Outreach Network Award Amount: $35,000
Center School District #58 Award Amount: $65,000
Citizens of the World KC Award Amount: $65,170
Community LINC Award Amount: $80,000
Cornerstones of Care Award Amount: $300,000
Crossroads Charter Schools Award Amount: $31,041
Emmanuel Family & Child Development Center Award Amount: $210,000
First Call Award Amount: $55,900
Foster Adopt Connect Award Amount: $73,000
Gordon Parks Elementary Award Amount: $29,700
Grain Valley School District Award Amount: $240,520
Guadalupe CentersCharter School Award Amount: $300,000
Hope House Award Amount: $76,384
Jackson County CASA Award Amount: $65,500
Kansas City Academy Award Amount: $228,774
Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care Award Amount: $76,685
KIPP Kansas City Award Amount: $230,000
KVC Niles Award Amount: $300,000
Lee's Summit R7 Schools Award Amount: $299,844
Mattie Rhodes Center Award Amount: $40,000
Mother’s Refuge Award Amount: $52,500
Oak Grove R-VI Award Amount: $246,000
Operation Breakthrough Award Amount: $300,000
Providence School of Arts Award Amount: $74,500
Raytown C-2 Schools Award Amount: $100,000
Rose Brooks Center Award Amount: $274,500
Seton Center Award Amount: $10,760
St. Luke's/Crittenton Children's Center Award Amount: $1,789
Start at Zero Award Amount: $255,000
Steppingstone/ECH Award Amount: $37,345
STW Charities Award Amount: $12,866
The Family Conservancy Award Amount: $30,350
The Plaza Academy Award Amount: $17,945
YMCA of Greater Kansas City Award Amount: $74,913
Our unique funding model ensures that partner organizations get the critical support they need while taxpayers feel confdent that their dollars are being well spent. Instead of a traditional grant approach, we reimburse for actual program expenses, enabling us to stay accountable to taxpayers and partners.
In addition, every year we are audited by an outside frm to ensure accuracy and compliance in our fnancial records. For maximum transparency, we post complete audit results on our website. REVENUE
Sales Tax Proceeds $26,765,715 Interest Income $522,995 TOTAL REVENUE $27,288,710 EXPENSES Partner Support - Core Funding $18,846,832 Partner Support - Capacity Building $329,478 Partner Support - Collaboration $123,209 PARTNER SUPPORT TOTAL $19,299,519 Personnel (Salary & Benefts) $996,442 Professional Contracts $212,515 General Administration/Operations $43,273 Rent & Occupancy $50,373 Professional Insurance $21,171 Technology Costs $10,970 Transportation (Staf Mileage) $2,291 Depreciation $16,352 TOTAL OVERHEAD $1,353,387 TOTAL EXPENSES $20,652,906
& transparent
Trusted
*New sales tax rate efective 4.1.23 generated excess revenue for the year. *Financials are subject to change upon completion of 2023 audit.
2023 BY THE NUMBERS
77partner organizations received funds in strategic initiative awards to support two organizations million $18.9
99 PROGRAMS IMPACTED
Children impacted by services receiving CSF funding
52,120 $264,698
Funding decisions for greatest impact
We make funding decisions based on key areas of impact and specifc activities and outcomes. This framework is designed to support programs focused on prevention, resilience, and community, as well as support new opportunities that strengthen organizations and help them grow, expand their reach, and help more of our kids thrive.
TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT WHAT GUIDES OUR FUNDING DECISIONS.
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