· Private foundation
J B Reynolds Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $207k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $420k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI HUNTING HERITAGE FEDERATION | $25,000 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATION - BIXBY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| KCPT PUBLIC TELEVISION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER-ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CENTER | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER KC CHAPTER | $25,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA CIRCLE BALL | $25,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $25,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY - KANSAS CITY MO | $25,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| STARLIGHT THEATRE | $15,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $15,000 |
| KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ZOO | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| SYNERGY SERVICES - STAND UP FOR SYNERGY | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
86 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KCKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +22%
- MHMISSOURI HUNTING HERITAGE FEDERATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +70% · 42% of their budget
- KCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +13%
Funded once
TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +41%- LOLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -47%
- WUWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +217%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faith Missions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 121 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI HUNTING HERITAGE FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Rediscover ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS CITY ROSE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FEDERATION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLIES HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC ↗
- Who funds FAITH MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Francis Family Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization J B Reynolds Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.