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Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WONDERSCOPE | $200,000 |
| KANSAS ATHLETICS | $50,000 |
| POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANAS CITY | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| WWI MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLAZA DISTRICT COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ZOO | $5,000 |
| MS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| CITY UNION MISSION | $5,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC | $5,000 |
| WHITEFIELD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| UNIV OF KANSAS HOSPITAL AUTHORITY | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- PFPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +142%
- TNTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +435%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSASone grant, 2023 · $110k
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +5%
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
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…
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…
To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
To promote inspired benevolence in accordance with the teachings of christian science.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.
Our mission is to create an environment where all citizens can live safely and have access to real opportunities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Golf Foundation of Kansas City. 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 37 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 47 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 WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds WHITEFIELD ACADEMY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MIMIS PANTRY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds Do Good 4 Co ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR LANE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
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 · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation · Seaboard Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Gerson Family Foundation · Hartley Family Foundation · Nichols Company Charitable Trust
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 Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 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.
- Food for Lane County — 5% of income from government
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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