· Private foundation
Jedel Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- $10k–50k18 grants · $322k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $502k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KU Endowment Assoc | $227,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art | $75,000 |
| One World | $48,000 |
| Asteam Village Inc | $33,500 |
| Ann Richards School Foundation | $25,000 |
| Austin Community Foundation | $20,000 |
| Theatre Action Project | $20,000 |
| Kansas City Scholars Inc | $20,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Lawerence Inc | $20,000 |
| Quixotic Performance Fusion | $20,000 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $20,000 |
| Douglas County Community Foundation | $15,000 |
| Barnabas Foundation | $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 (FY17–17, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
23 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2020, 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 FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association2× · 2019–2020 · $454k · revenue +6%
- TETHE ELLIS FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $212k · revenue +96%
- CCCROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS3× · 2018–2020 · $110k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $65k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $40k
- AEAustin Education Fundone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
Kansas city international academy is committed to excellence in education, inspiring and empowering children from all nationalities and diverse backgrounds, giving them the foundation they need to achieve the highest level of success in…
Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
To assist local boards of education and related educational entities in their responsibilities to assure a quality public education for all students.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kansas City Hospice Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE WORLD ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds aSTEAM VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Ann Richards School Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GILDA'S CLUB KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds BISHOP SEABURY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds The Rotary Club of Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Topeka Community Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Health Forward Foundation · Servant Foundation · Ronald D Deffenbaugh Foundation CO Charles E Wetzler - Trustee · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ash Grove Charitable Foundation · Kansas Health 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 Jedel Family 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.
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.
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