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Bangs Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$125k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
36%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$45,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Bangs Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$125k22%
FY202414$178k36%
FY20239$159k44%
FY202211$166k64%
FY20219$101k11%
FY202012$138k0%
FY201913$137k15%
FY201818$146k28%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$610kHealth$260kRecreation & Sports$150kHousing & Shelter$109kEnvironment$44kReligion$26kInternational$16kEducation$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
IN
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
SC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Bangs Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Casa De Amparo$200,00080%
All Star Equestrian Foundation Inc$150,000613%
Joy Meadows Inc$126,92642%
The Restoration House of East Tennessee$105,00043%
Avenue of Life Inc$85,80061%
Childrens Skin Disease Foundation$80,00047%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$62,63670%
Shangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding Inc$45,85323%
Hilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc$20,00040%
Children's Dream Fund Inc$18,00020%
Mission Adelante Inc$16,2502n/a
Kansas City Dream Center Co$13,00021%
Wells for Life$11,0002n/a
Westside Family Church$10,0001n/a
St Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc$9,75050%
Urban Scholastic Center$8,00021%
Focus on the Family$7,7503n/a
The Blue Door Project Inc$7,00021%
Mighty Oaks Foundation$6,00010%
Team Rubicon Inc$5,00010%
Barefoot Mission Inc$5,00014%
Smoky Mountain Service Dogs$5,00010%
Elevate Branson$5,00010%
Midlands Housing Alliance Inc$4,30030%
Champions Special Ministries Inc$4,30042%
Carver Community Center$4,00011%
Love-On-Wheels$3,0001n/a
Texas Hearing & Service Dogs Inc$2,60030%
Hilltop Ranch$2,00011%
Immune Deficiency Foundation$1,25010%
The Mission Continues$1,00010%
Bethany Christian Mission Center Inc$23410%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($258k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bangs Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCasa De Amparo: $200,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAll Star Equestrian Foundation Inc: $150,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetJoy Meadows Inc: $126,926 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Restoration House of East Tennessee: $105,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetAvenue of Life Inc: $85,800 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetChildrens Skin Disease Foundation: $80,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $62,636 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetShangri-La Therapeutic Academy of Riding Inc: $45,853 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetHilton Head Island Deep Well Project Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Dream Fund Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKansas City Dream Center Co: $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSt Vincent Hospital Foundation Inc: $9,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Scholastic Center: $8,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Blue Door Project Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMighty Oaks Foundation: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeam Rubicon Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarefoot Mission Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSmoky Mountain Service Dogs: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetElevate Branson: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMidlands Housing Alliance Inc: $4,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetChampions Special Ministries Inc: $4,300 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCarver Community Center: $4,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTexas Hearing & Service Dogs Inc: $2,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHilltop Ranch: $2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetImmune Deficiency Foundation: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mission Continues: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethany Christian Mission Center Inc: $234 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Servant FoundationKS22.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Bangs Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bangs Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Bangs Family Foundation

How much does Bangs Family Foundation give?
Bangs Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $125,234 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Bangs Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Health (20%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are Bangs Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Casa De Amparo ($200k), All Star Equestrian Foundation Inc ($150k), Joy Meadows Inc ($127k).
Does Bangs Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bangs Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bangs Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Servant Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Bangs Family Foundation based?
Bangs Family Foundation is based in KS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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