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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.

$395k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
47%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 19
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$7.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 47% of the organizations Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 67% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $158k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$395k65%
FY202419$235k47%
FY202311$173k64%
FY202215$75kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$476kHealth$113kArts & Culture$91kRecreation & Sports$56kCrime & Legal$55kPhilanthropy$24kAnimals$20kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OR
IN
MO
VA
KS
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wonderscope Inc$315,00029%
Police Foundation of Kansas City$55,00041%
The Nelson Gallery Foundation$50,00020%
Kansas Athletics Incorporated$50,0001n/a
Planned Parenthood Great Plains$40,00020%
Parkinson's Foundation Inc$20,00030%
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc$16,67510%
City Union Mission$12,00040%
Whitefield Academy Association$8,50030%
Community Assistance Council Inc$6,90030%
Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($267k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWonderscope Inc: $315,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetPolice Foundation of Kansas City: $55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Nelson Gallery Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Great Plains: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetParkinson's Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc: $16,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Union Mission: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWhitefield Academy Association: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Assistance Council Inc: $6,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMimis Pantry: $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDo Good 4 Co: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetKauffman Center for the Performing Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFood for Lane County: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHead for the Cure Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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 Community FoundationMO27.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021

How much does Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 give?
Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 reported 24 grants totaling $395,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (13%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Wonderscope Inc ($315k), Police Foundation of Kansas City ($55k), The Nelson Gallery Foundation ($50k).
Does Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Where is Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 based?
Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 is based in MO.

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 47 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.

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