· Private foundation
Jck Family Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
90% of Jck Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Jck Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $172k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k9 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - MIKE AHEARN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $73,330 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT | $50,000 |
| JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION & RECOVERY | $5,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - SCHOLARSHIPS | $5,000 |
| THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART | $2,910 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED (CCVI) | $2,650 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA - LAW SCHOOL FUND | $1,000 |
| TRINITY UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| ACACIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +62% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2017, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2021, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FCFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY4× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +62%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +113%
- TUTrinity University2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - MIKE AHEARN SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2017 · $73k
- JSJEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +37%
- PFPHEASANTS FOREVER INCone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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How this is measured
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 18 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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON SCHOLARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds VILAR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LAW SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trinity University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY FAMILY ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jck Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jck Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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