Skip to content
Jane & Jack Strandberg Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Jane & Jack Strandberg Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$93kYouth Development$29kEnvironment$25kHealth$23kEmployment$14kHuman Services$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$835k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE$40,000
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 (FY22–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LORRAINE'S HOUSE: $10k → 5%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $15k → 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 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
Mo Kan 2020 Vision Inc

The mission of 20/20 leadership is to provide high school students unique experiential learning opportunities to expand their education beyond the classroom, develop resilient leaders, and build stronger communities.

Youth Development
2
Green Works in Kansas City

Through outdoor experiences, project-based learning, and STEM career exploration, we inspire the next generation of nature lovers and environmental leaders to care for our environment, create healthy communities, and contribute to our…

Education
3
Teach St Louis

Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…

Education
4
Kansas City Startup Foundation

To cultivate a thriving and inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Kansas City.

Education
5
Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc

Junior achievement accelerates economic opportunity and mobility for youth through cross-sector collaboration to deliver innovative solutions that improve educational and economic outcomes for students.

International
6
The Learning Cooperative Dba Kansas City Academy

Kansas city academy is a personalized learning community that respects individuality, encourages independent thinking, and values creativity in all disciplines.

Education
7
Great Jobs Kc Inc

The mission of great jobs kc is to provide access to college scholarships and tuition-free job training along with job placement assistance to secure family-sustaining jobs for low- to modest-income individuals in the kansas city area.

Education
8
Partnership for Regional Educational Preparation - Kansas City Inc

In a world where zip codes can predict outcomes, prep-kc ignites potential by bringing educators and industry professionals together to build paths to meaningful careers for students across the heart of bistate kansas city.

Education
9
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
10
Full Employment Council Inc

The full employment council is a business-led, private, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to obtain public and private sector employment for the unemployed and underemployed residents of the greater kansas city area.

Crime & Legal
11
Kc Tenants

KC Tenants organizes to ensure that everyone in Kansas City has a safe, accessible, and truly affordable home.

Civil Rights
12
Breakthrough Twin Cities

Breakthrough Twin Cities supports students on their journey to college by fostering a community of mutual learning with the next generation of educators so they both can collaborate, grow, and thrive.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Literacy Kansas City; the most unlike its peers is Lorraine's House. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $40,000 · OtherMETROPOLITAN COMMUNITY COLLEGETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $15,000 · OtherLITERACY KANSAS CITYNATIONAL FOUNDATION OF DENTISTRY: $7,500 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION OF DENTISTRYCROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $38,000 · EducationCROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLSTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $14,000 · EducationTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATIONELEVATE METRO KC: $14,000 · EducationELEVATE METRO KCYouth Volunteer Corps: $15,000 · Human ServicesYouth Voluntee…LORRAINE'S HOUSE: $10,000 · Human ServicesLORRAINE'S HOU…GILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY: $10,000 · HealthKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC: $5,000 · Health
Other$87,500Education$66,000Human Services$25,000Health$15,000

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 budgetCROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS: $38,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYouth Volunteer Corps: $15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELEVATE METRO KC: $14,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLORRAINE'S HOUSE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

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…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Sherman Family Fo…The Kansas City Royal…The H & R Block Found…Health Forward Founda…Natl Christian Charit…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO17.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Jane & Jack Strandberg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jane & Jack Strandberg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 11 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.

    Source object · view filing

    Play a game based on Jane & Jack Strandberg’s filings →

    More from the funding graph

    The unnamed billions
    grants reported with no recipient in the public record
    The regranting layer
    51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
    The DAF merry-go-round
    $9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
    The endowment market
    who holds foundation money, and what just moved
    The camps
    funders cluster by geography, not ideology
    By state
    where grant money is based, and what stays home