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J B Reynolds Foundation at a glance

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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.

$627k
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$1.2MHealth$538kPublic Safety & Disaster$399kHuman Services$391kEducation$364kEnvironment$176kFood & Nutrition$171kScience & Tech$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $207k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $420k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESEARCH FOUNDATION - BIXBY INSTITUTE$25,000
MISSOURI HUNTING HERITAGE FEDERATION$25,000
KCPT PUBLIC TELEVISION$25,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER KC CHAPTER$25,000
SALVATION ARMY - KANSAS CITY MO$25,000
KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER-ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE CENTER$25,000
LYRIC OPERA CIRCLE BALL$25,000
KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE$20,000
STARLIGHT THEATRE$15,000
HARVESTERS$15,000
KANSAS CITY BALLET$10,000
SLEEPYHEAD BEDS$10,000
CITY UNION MISSION$10,000
CHARLIE'S HOUSE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Mission Project The: $6k → 5%THE MISSION PROJECT: $6k → 5%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%MISSION PROJECT THE: $6k → 5%MISSION PROJECT: $6k → 5%MISSION PROJECT: $6k → 5%Mission Project The: $5k → 5%LEAD TO READ: $5k → 8%HEARTSTRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 5%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC: $5k → 15%HappyBottoms: $5k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $5k → 15%HappyBottoms: $5k → 15%SLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $10k → 15%Redemptorist Social Services Center: $10k → 15%REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SVS: $10k → 15%Cornerstones of Care: $5k → 15%REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $5k → 15%YMCA of Greater Kansas City: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $5k → 15%REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SVS: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $5k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $5k → 15%YMCA of Greater Kansas City: $5k → 15%REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SVS: $5k → 15%PAWSPERITY: $5k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $5k → 15%TRUE LIGHT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 15%TRUE LIGHT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 15%TRUE LIGHT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 86 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
25

Total granted

$3.8M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+32%

Still filing today

62%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • KC
    KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $220k · revenue +22%
  • PT
    PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +68%
  • MH
    MISSOURI HUNTING HERITAGE FEDERATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $150k · revenue +70% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -47%
  • TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +41%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
2
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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3
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

—
4
Kansas City Country Club

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…

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5
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
6
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
7
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
8
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
9
Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

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10
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

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…

Education
11
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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12
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 121 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
55/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SALVATION ARMY - KANSAS CITY MO: $155,500 · OtherSALVATION ARMY - KANSAS CITY MOAMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER KC CHAPTER: $154,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS GREATER KC CHAPTERResearch Foundation - Bixby Institute: $150,000 · OtherResearch Foundation - Bixby InstituteUniversity of Kansas Medical Center-Alzheimer's Disease Center: $150,000 · OtherUniversity of Kansas Medical Center-Alzheimer's Disease CenterLYRIC OPERA CIRCLE BALL: $125,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-KANSAS CITY: $85,000 · OtherHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $105,500 · Other+67 more: $1,513,500 · Other+67 morePUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $150,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC TELEVISION …KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHO…KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET…KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERT…STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT THEATRE …PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureFOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $25,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $36,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $220,000 · EducationTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY: $20,000 · EducationMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC: $20,000 · Education+3 more: $25,000 · EducationMISSOURI HUNTING HERITAGE FEDERATION INC: $150,000 · Public Safety & DisasterCHARLIES HOUSE INC: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterREDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE MISSION PROJECT INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMS: $30,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $30,000 · Human ServicesTrue Light Family Resource Center: $15,000 · Human ServicesSLEEPYHEAD BEDS: $10,000 · Human ServicesHeartstrings Community Foundation: $10,000 · Human ServicesLEAD TO READ INC: $9,000 · Human Services+5 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE KANSAS CITY ROSE SOCIETY: $60,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION FEDERATION OF MISSOURI: $55,000 · EnvironmentWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $16,000 · EnvironmentAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $35,000 · HealthTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $20,000 · HealthPETS FOR LIFE INC: $15,000 · HealthFOOTPRINTS INC: $10,000 · HealthGILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY: $7,500 · HealthNURTURE KC: $5,000 · Health
Other$2,438,500Arts & Culture$676,000Education$315,000Public Safety & Disaster$200,000Human Services$199,000Environment$131,000Health$117,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $220,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOURI HUNTING HERITAGE FEDERATION INC: $150,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $105,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRediscover: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROSE SOCIETY: $60,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetCONSERVATION FEDERATION OF MISSOURI: $55,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCity Union Mission: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLIES HOUSE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC: $35,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MISSION PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFAITH MISSIONS INC: $30,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF GREATER KC: $30,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetENSEMBLE IBERICA INC: $30,000 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RABBIT HOLE KC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetQUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS: $20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCITIZENS OF THE WORLD CHARTER SCHOOL-KANSAS CITY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHeartland Chamber Music LTD: $20,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $16,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTrue Light Family Resource Center: $15,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPETS FOR LIFE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetTHE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJourney to New Life INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI HUNTING HERITAGE FEDERATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Rediscover ↗
  • Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS ↗
  • Who funds THE KANSAS CITY ROSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION FEDERATION OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK ↗
  • Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds City Union Mission ↗
  • Who funds CHARLIES HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
  • Who funds REDEMPTORIST SOCIAL SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MISSION PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAITH MISSIONS INC ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…The Sunderland Founda…The H & R Block Found…Jewish Community Foun…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Sherman Family Fo…Ewing Marion Kauffman…United Way of Greater…R a Long Foundation 6…The Francis Family Fo…Marion and Henry Bloc…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO82.4× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization J B Reynolds Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from J B Reynolds Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Autism Society of America Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 121 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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