· Private foundation
BK Bryant Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Foundation for Independence | $4,500 |
| Independence Historical Museum | $4,000 |
| Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church | $3,000 |
| First Church of the Nazarene | $3,000 |
| Bethany United Methodist Church | $3,000 |
| Friends of Riverside Park and Zoo Association | $2,000 |
| Billy Graham Evangelistic Association | $2,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse International Relief | $2,000 |
| Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital | $1,500 |
| Animals With Our Love | $1,500 |
| Salvation Army | $1,000 |
| International Fellowship of Christians & Jews | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 81% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +90% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK AND ZOO ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +112%
- AAAWOL ANIMALS WITH OUR LOVEINC7× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +82%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- MNMIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +61%
- CFCommunity Foundation for Independence (Adopt-A-Family)one grant, 2017 · $2k
- SRSolid Rock Baptist Churchone grant, 2019 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
The mission of the missionary image of our lady of guadalupe is to promote reverence of life, the end of the culture of death; the establishment of a culture of life and civilization of love and the triumph of the immaculate heart of mary.…
The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…
To reach out with the message of the gospel of jesus to the last, least, and the lost
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENCE ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RIVERSIDE PARK AND ZOO ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AWOL ANIMALS WITH OUR LOVEINC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Ministries of the Metro East ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC ↗
- Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZERENE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization BK Bryant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from BK Bryant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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