CSF Annual Report 2024

2024 Impact Report

Investing in Children.

This is the first part of our mission statement, and exactly what we did in 2024, providing $27.5M in support to our partners, who in turn provided services to 69,433 children and youth across Jackson County. But that is only part of the story...

The first quarter of 2024 saw three new faces join the CSF team: Kia Cannon as our Operations Manager, Jane Mosley as our Director of Impact, and Russell Anderson as our Director of Health Equity. With those additions, we completed the team growth we had begun in the spring of 2023, with a focus on balancing a strategic use of financial resources while also creating a team that could support expansive community outreach. Early in 2024 we were also able to welcome partners and stakeholders to an open house to highlight our CSF Community Room, a space that would ultimately host fifty-nine partner events throughout 2024. The open house also provided an opportunity for us to recognize Robin Winner and Sue Richter with the CSF Champions of Children award for their individual efforts in support of the CSF, and by extension, the children of Jackson County.

During 2024 we completed the second and third of three Core Funding opportunities that had been announced in the spring of 2023. In April, the CSF awarded Core Funding: Academic Year awards to fifty-two school-based or school-adjacent projects, with a planned investment of $23.5M over two years. In October, the CSF awarded Core Funding: Calendar Year awards to seventy-four projects with a planned investment of $38.9M over two years. In addition, the CSF provided first-time Cultivation funding awards of $1.7M to six projects that would run concurrently with the Core Funding: Calendar Year awards. This Cultivation funding was a new category and is intended to strengthen these programs in preparation for eventual Core Funding. The CSF also continued support for Capacity Building efforts among our partners by awarding just over $3M to 33 projects.

Last year also saw us begin two projects with long-term implications. The first of these was the selection of Fluxx as the grant-making software vendor that would assist us in building out our Partner Portal towards the goal of having a single solution for all applications, awards, contracts, reporting, and reimbursement requests. The second project was the launch of our Children’s Services Assessment (CSA) to evaluate the state of mental health and social-emotional well-being for children in Jackson County. In late 2024, four overarching themes emerged from the ongoing CSA efforts: compromised child well- being, strained system of care, workforce capacity challenges, and community & systemic barriers to accessing children’s services. Both projects will come to fruition in 2025.

Lots happening, all of which would not mean as much if not for the amazing partner organizations that utilize our support to help children thrive. With much appreciation to them for their efforts, and all our community for their support of Jackson County kids.

ROB WHITTEN Chief Executive Officer

JESSICA RAMIREZ Board Chair

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.

AMOUNT AWARDED

SERVICE AREA

HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED INTERVENTION

5,227,709

$

These important services allow children and youth to access behavioral health interventions in their homes and communities.

TO 18 ORGANIZATIONS

INDIVIDUAL, GROUP, AND FAMILY COUNSELING

$

Supportive services promote the wellbeing of children and families with psychological evaluations, mental health screenings, and therapy.

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.

TO 29 ORGANIZATIONS

$

6,772,349

TO 41 ORGANIZATIONS

SERVICES TO TEEN PARENTS

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.

6,195,939

47,484

32

TO 1 ORGANIZATION

$

660,000

TO 3 ORGANIZATIONS

TRANSITIONAL LIVING

$

CRISIS INTERVENTION

11,275

149,222

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.

FOUR ELIGIBLE SERVICE AREAS THAT WERE NOT FUNDED IN 2024:

9,136

$

TEMPORARY SHELTER

Counseling and supportive services are an integral part of programs that help youth transition from homelessness to safe living arrangements.

CHILDREN SERVED

1,763,330

TO 8 ORGANIZATIONS

966

540

69,433 TOTAL

In response to acute mental health crises, these services focus on rapidly restoring a child’s baseline functioning.

OUTPATIENT PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT

Children receive comprehensive mental health care services from evaluation and diagnosis to treatment and medication management.

OUTPATIENT SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT

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.

Our team ROB WHITTEN Chief Executive Officer MOJI SHOGBAMIMU Chief Financial Officer JOVANNA ROHS Chief Program Officer JANE MOSLEY Director of Impact RUSSELL ANDERSON Director of Health Equity SETH BAKER Program Officer KATHERINE RIVARD Program Officer BERNADETTE SPOONER THOMPSON Program Officer KIA CANNON Operations Manager CELESTE ORTIZ Contract Administrator SHANNON DUPREE Accounting Specialist SUE RICHTER Special Projects

Our board JESSICA RAMIREZ Chair District 5, Exp 3.31.25 AMY HARRIS Vice Chair District 1, Exp 3.31.27 JUDY MORGAN Secretary District 1, Exp 3.31.25 AJIA MORRIS Treasurer District 2, Exp 3.31.27 BRIAN KABERLINE District 3, Exp 3.31.27 MONICA MEEKS District 6, Exp 3.31.26 MEG MCCALL District 4, Exp 3.31.26

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 KIDS AMOUNT SERVED

Ability KC Mental Health Matters for Children Living with Disabilities

$

250,000

263

Amethyst Place Therapeutic Family Support Services

$

252,000

110

Youth Empowerment Therapeutic Program

$

300,000

100

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City Mentoring to Support Children Who Have Experienced Trauma Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City Whole Child Development Program

60,000

$

40

324,000 3,588

$

Bridge Leadership Academy Coach Staffin and Resources

$

50,000

64

Calvary Community Outreach Network Helping Youth Plan for Excellence

$

84,000

114

Campfire Heartland SEL Programming Support for Children

$

76,660

464

SEL Support for JusticeInvolved Youth

$

64,640

147

150,000

57

Catholic Charities of Kansas City St. Joseph Promoting Parenting Skills & Childhood SEL

$

Center for Conflict Resolution Breaking Cycles of Violence

$

111,600 3,977

AWARD KIDS AMOUNT SERVED

Center School District #58 Elementary School-based Social Workers

$

Child Abuse Prevention Association (CAPA) Clinical Services: Sustaining Impact

$

308,689

107

Expanding SchoolBased Prevention and Community Education

$

153,290

374

Child Protection Center, Inc. ACT Raising Safe Kids

$

186,000

216

Child and Family Trauma Treatment Program

$

163,190

162

Children’s Center for the Visually Impaired Social and Emotional Support for Visually and Multiply Impaired Children

$

167,846

178

Children’s Mercy Hospital Healthy Families Children’s Mercy

$

277,500

102

TIES - Team for Infants Exposed to Substance abuse

$

234,000

68

Citizens of the World Kansas City Building a Trauma Informed School

$

153,000

401

Community Assistance Council CAC’s Empower Program (Hickman Mills)

$

185,000

112

Community LINC Homeless Youth and Children’s Safe Haven

$

183,600

136

279,873 1,156

Our partners (cont’d) AWARD KIDS AMOUNT SERVED

Community Services League Childhood Specialist Case Manager

$

60,000

61

300,000

356

Family Stability Initiative

$

Comprehensive Mental Health Services, Inc. PUSH: Jackson County School Prevention and Therapy Program

$

218,121 1,266

Core Changing Concepts Community Core ChangingViolence Prevention Project

60,000

$

Cornerstones of Care Functional Family Therapy

$

Mental Health Prevention and Intervention Services

$

Crossroads Charter Schools Comprehensive Student Counseling Program

$

DeLaSalle Education Center The Kairos Program

$

Down Syndrome Innovations Mental Health Services for Families to Support Life Trajectories for Children with Developmental Disabilities in Jackson County

$

Drumm Center for Children Drumm Farm Clinical Expansion Project

$

EarlystART Mental Health Intervention Program (MHIP)

$

Easterseals Midwest ABA Therapy

$

318,000 250,000

162 128 806

125,000

278,429

135,000 216,000

Every Child’s Hope Community-Based Transitional Living at Steppingstone

$

375,000

29

Temporary Shelter at Steppingstone

$

315,000

62

First Call Alcohol/Drug Prevention & Recovery First Call Family Services

$

151,638

91

Foster Adopt Connect Clinical Therapy Services

$

124,035

26

Fostering Prevention Jackson County

$

157,462

42

Front Porch Alliance – Kansas City Neighborhood Families: Early Childhood Education

$

210,000

200

Genesis School Genesis School Counseling and Wellness Program

$

60,000

263

Gilda’s Club Kansas City Gilda’s Club KC Children, Teen, and Family Programming

$

13,924

137

Gordon Parks Elementary School Improved Mental Health and Well-Being Supports in School

$

76,818

399

$

117

Grandview Assistance Program Putting Students First

68,718

59

$

139

Green Works in Kansas City ECOS Urban Outdoor Nature Discovery

41,300

203

Guadalupe Centers Enhanced Bilingual Child & Youth Counseling & Therapy

$

64,200

94

118,615 1,120 135,000

AWARD KIDS AMOUNT SERVED

310

21

20

Emmanuel Family & Child Development Center Trauma Smart Continuum of Care at EFCDC

$

153,000

420

Empowering Parents KC EPKC Therapeutic Services

$

162,000

149

Essential Families Closing the Digital Divide, Providing 24/7 Virtual Mental Healthcare Services

$

200,000 1,188

Hillcrest Ministries of MidAmerica, Inc. New Youth Transitional Living Program in Jackson County

$

160,930

13

Hope House, Inc. Hope House’s Children’s Services Program

$

125,491

139

Hope House Guardian Program

$

222,676

114

Independence School District Expanded Family Services Initiative

$

258,500 1,231

AWARD KIDS AMOUNT SERVED

Independence School District Hispanic Outreach, Partnership and Engagement Services

$

Jackson County CASA Intervention and Advocacy for Children

$

Volunteer Guardian ad Litem Intervention and Advocacy Jewish Family Services Child and Family Counseling

$

200,300 1,116

Lutheran Family and Children’s Services of Missouri Mental Health Counseling

$

260,820

163

Mattie Rhodes Center Violence Intervention and Prevention - In School Services

$

205,200

226

Metro Lutheran Ministry Prevention and Re-Housing for Youth and Families

$

132,000

26

66,600 11,239

MOCSA Preventing Sexual Violence in Jackson County Schools

$

330,000

Sexual Violence Counseling for Children in Jackson County

$

330,000

73

Mother’s Refuge Therapy and Shelter for Homeless Teenage Mothers and Babies

$

149,222

32

Transitional Living Program for Young Mothers and Babies

$

252,000

18

Newhouse Children’s Program

$

216,000

204

Reversing the Negative Developmental Impact of Violent Trauma

$

253,618

204

Nurture KC Moving Beyond Depression Promise 1000 Partnership

$

330,000

155

Promise 1000 - Collective Impact Home Visiting

$

330,000

77

Reversing the Negative Developmental Impact of Violent Trauma

$

253,618

204

Operation Breakthrough Children and Youth Collaborative Mental Health Services

$

165,000

316

Our SpotKC Lion House KCMO

$

275,000

26

Paws & Pals K.I.N.D (Kids in Need of Dogs) Therapy

$

165,000

159

33,406

74

YouBeYou

$

Jewish Vocational Service JVS Social Work - Youth (JVS Youth)

$

Kansas City Autism Training Center Treatment for Jackson County Kids on the Autism Spectrum

$

257,702

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey KCFAA AileyCamp/AileyCamp the Group

$

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 KIDS AMOUNT SERVED

66,900

86,522

162,000

$

School-Based Grief Group and Individual Counseling Services

$

Kansas City Public Schools Restorative Justice Alternative School Support Model

$

71,424 87,500

333

11

82

118

137

242 227

KC Healthy Kids Healthy Kids Bright Futures

$

108,000

677

KIPP: Endeavor Academy Mental Health & Healing In Schools

$

125,000

85

KVC Missouri (formerly Niles) KVC Niles Day Prep Treatment: Helping Youth Heal from Trauma

$

Strong and Connected Families

$

240,000 189,000

62 70

Peace Partnership Peace Partnership In-School Counseling Program

150,000

3

$

175,000

650

105,000

730

265,254 5,749

$

AWARD KIDS AMOUNT SERVED

Police Athletic League of Kansas City, Inc. PAL Wellness and Resiliency Program

$

Preferred Family Healthcare STEP UP - Independence

$

154,015

101

STEP UP - Raytown

$

200,381

141

Raytown C-2 Public School District Raytown Connect

$

ReDiscover School-Based Mental Health Services

$

Show Me Zero Youth Suicide Project (Zero Suicide)

$

ReHope ReHope Youth Program

$

275,000

48

reStart, Inc. Youth Emergency Shelter

$

240,000

174

Youth Street Outreach Services (YSOS)

$

252,000 75,000

126,000 4,803

117,132 9,447

129,780 277,488

River of Refuge Transitional Housing Program

$

Rose Brooks Centers Project SAFE In-School Violence Prevention Program

$

SAFE Futures Program

$

Saint Luke’s Hospital (Crittenton) Smart Connections In-Home Mental Health Services

$

Samuel U Rodgers Health Center Blue Springs School District Expansion

$

Parent Education Expansion

$

Serve the World Charities (STW) Impact Center Schools

$

Sheffield Place Immediate Crisis Intervention for Children

$

Start at Zero Evidence-Based Family Visiting

$

253,980

523 460

205,920

$

73,200

72

Swope Health: Prevention Education and Teen Parent Program

$

77,300

283

Synergy Services, Inc. School Based Integration Services

$

236,856

51

The Children’s Place, Inc. Day Treatment Program

$

206,312

75

Therapeutic Services Expansion

$

246,250

89

The Family Conservancy Childhood Mental Health

$

330,000

402

$

62,100

64

The Plaza Academy School Based Mental Health Services for At-risk Adolescents

$

112,500

621

158 101

University Health Enhancing Futures

$

330,000

129

811

Wildwood Summer Camp Opportunity for Jackson County Youth

$

115,975

97

50,000

223

65

539

215,073 1,336 175,000

Swope Health Services Swope Health: Prevention & Early Intervention Services

The Transition Academy Creating Transition Success For Central City Youth with Disabilities

144,471 1,286 330,000

AWARD KIDS AMOUNT SERVED

94

166,800

169

130,500

157

Wonderscope Parenting with Play at Wonderscope YMCA of Greater Kansas City The Y’s Children’s Behavioral Health Expansion Project

$

251,303 1,793

$

Youth Ambassadors Teen Empowerment Project

$

75,000

172

Youth Guidance Becoming A Man (BAM)

$

90,000

189

Working On Womanhood (WOW)

$

90,000

175

Community Projects & Strategic Initiatives Kansas City Child Abuse Roundtable Action for Children Lee’s Summit Cares Community Approach to Youth Mental Health

85,000

$

120,000

$

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.

Avenue of Life Award Amount: $50,000

Frontier Schools Award Amount: $60,830

The Transition Academy Award Amount: $70,000

Big Brothers Big Sisters Award Amount: $57,000

Greater Kansas City Linc Award Amount: $75,864

Bridge Leadership Academy Award Amount: $221,000

Hickman Mills C-1 School District Award Amount: $300,000

Transformation Visitation Home Award Amount: $25,000

Camp Encourage Award Amount: $4,000 Center for Conflict Resolution Award Amount: $48,160 Center School Distract Award Amount: $150,000 Children of Incarcerated Parents Award Amount: $32,500 Children’s Center of the Visually Impaired Award Amount: $55,000 Citizens of the World-Kansas City Award Amount: $94,350

Urban Ranger Corps Award Amount: $45,000

HorsePower Experiential Learning Program Award Amount: $32,000

Warriors’ Best Friend Foundation Award Amount: $25,000

Jewish Vocational Service Award Amount: $275,000

WeCode KC Award Amount: $150,000

Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy Award Amount: $45,000 KC Healthy Kids Award Amount: $60,000 Northeast Community Center Award Amount: $45,000 Paws & Pals Award Amount: $100,000

Community Assistance Council Award Amount: $180,000

Pro Deo Youth Center Award Amount: $129,000

EarlystART Award Amount: $45,000

Raytown Public School District Award Amount: $100,000

Empowering Parents KC Award Amount: $42,000

reStart, Inc. Award Amount: $225,000

First Call Award Amount: $35,000

Seton Center Award Amount: $5,700

Front Porch Alliance Award Amount: $195,000

Sparkwheel, Inc. Award Amount: $26,250

*This listing reflects new awards made in 2024, and does not include 28 multi-year Capacity Building projects awarded in 2023 that are ongoing. Since launching this initiative, the CSF has committed over $7.8M in support of 69 projects.

Collaboration Awards Collaboration is about leveraging expertise not found at any single organization through meaningful partnerships to create system-level impact.

Safe Babies Court Foster Adopt Connect Award Amount: $1,983,724 System of Care for School-Based Mental Health Services SchoolSmartKC Award Amount: $3,713,641 Connected Communities ― Thriving Families Missouri Coalition for Children Award Amount: $1,200,000

Trusted & transparent Our unique funding model ensures that partner organizations get the critical support they need while taxpayers feel confident 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 firm to ensure accuracy and compliance in our financial records. For maximum transparency, we post complete audit results on our website.

REVENUE Sales Tax Proceeds

33,565,974

$

Interest Income TOTAL REVENUE

866,075

$

34,432,049

$

EXPENSES Partner Support - Core Funding

22,345,953

$

Partner Support - Capacity Building

$

2,417,434

Partner Support - Collaboration

$

2,561,409

Partner Support - Community PARTNER SUPPORT TOTAL

141,015

$

27,465,811

$

Personnel (Salary & Benefits)

1,644,120

$

Professional Contracts

402,298

$

General Administration/Operations

59,585

$

Rent & Occupancy

185,918

$

Professional Insurance

$

42,762

Technology Costs

$

14,640

Transportation (Staff Mileage)

2,766

$

Depreciation

42,277

$

TOTAL OVERHEAD TOTAL EXPENSES *Financials are subject to change upon completion of 2024 audit.

2,394,366

$

29,860,177

$

2024 BY THE NUMBERS

27,465,811

$

million invested & Children impacted by services receiving CSF funding

69,433

183 FUNDED PROJECTS

Funding decisions for greatest impact We make funding decisions based on key areas of impact and specific 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.

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