Kathleen L and Michael J Rainen Family Foundation C/O Friend & Associates LLC

Kathleen L and Michael J Rainen Family Foundation C/O Friend & Associates LLC at a glance

· Private foundation

Kathleen L and Michael J Rainen Family Foundation C/O Friend & Associates LLC

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.

$208k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$123k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$369kPhilanthropy$211kEducation$195kArts & Culture$95kYouth Development$53kHuman Services$47kReligion$26kEnvironment$16kOther$0

02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $58k
$10k–50k1 grant · $27k
$50k–250k1 grant · $123k

$3,100

Median grant

States reached

$8.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Individual grant recipient	$123,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY	$27,000
NAPLES CENTRAL HOSPITAL DIPLOMAT PROGRAM	$7,500
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL	$7,000
COMPASSION & CHOICES	$5,000
SAINT LOUIS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$5,000
RUCKUSROOTS	$5,000
KANSAS CITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION	$5,000
LEUKEMIA LYMPHOMA SOCIETY	$5,000
TEMPLE ISRAEL	$3,100
Individual grant recipient	$2,750
KANSAS CITY BALLET	$2,500
KANSAS CITY STARLIGHT THEATRE	$2,000
HNC LIVING FOUNDATION	$2,000
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC	$1,500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$753k · 36 repeat orgs$261k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$753k

$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+12%

Still filing today

64%

62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsOther

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

Trustees of Tufts College
3× · 2017–2020 · $185k · revenue +50%
GS
GORLIN SYNDROME ALLIANCE
3× · 2020–2022 · $169k · revenue +25% · 26% of their budget
JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
5× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +105%

Funded once

NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INCgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +721%
AI
AMERICAN ISRAEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue -13%
IG
Individual grant recipient
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.

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health

Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health

Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Jefferson National Parks Association

Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.

Arts & Culture

Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Botanical Garden Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs. 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

41 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. 41 of the 70 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

31/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$444,351Health$260,680Philanthropy$202,750Education$202,575Arts & Culture$61,250Human Services$37,500International$16,000

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.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas CityKS40.4× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Nerman Family Foundation · R C Kemper Charitable Trust 10017800 · Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Atterbury 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 Kathleen L and Michael J Rainen Family Foundation C/O Friend & Associates LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kathleen L and Michael J Rainen Family Foundation C/O Friend & Associates LLC. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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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