· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $10,000 |
| WWI MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| PLAZA DISTRICT COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| MS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ZOO | $5,000 |
| CITY UNION MISSION | $5,000 |
| DO GOOD FOR ERIN | $5,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC | $5,000 |
| WHITEFIELD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WIWONDERSCOPE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $315k · revenue +6%
- PFPOLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +142%
- TNTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +435%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSASone grant, 2023 · $110k
- MCMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $17k · revenue +5%
- HAHORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATIONone 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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 47 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 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 Do Good 4 Co ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lynne and Owen Buckley Foundation U/A Dtd 12/13/2021. Bigger dots raise more.
- Food for Lane County: 5% of income from government
How this is measured
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