Skip to content
Plinth

· Private foundation

Msjb Family Foundation

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.

$126k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$207kHealth$117kInternational$117kEducation$100kHuman Services$57kAnimals$46kFood & Nutrition$39kYouth Development$33kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $81k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL$16,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$15,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
PREBORN$10,000
MARANTHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$10,000
VALOR RANCH$10,000
OLATHE HOSPICE HOUSE$5,000
ANSWERS IN GENESIS$5,000
PROVERBS 31 MINISTRIES$5,000
HARVESTERS$5,000
CHURCH OF THE HARVEST$4,000
MOTHER'S REFUGE$3,000
OPAL'S EMBRACE$3,000
COLONIAL PREBYTERIAN CHURCH$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $5k → 16%PREBORN: $15k → 16%PREBORN: $10k → 16%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $5k → 15%MOTHER'S REFUGE: $3k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
NY
IN
CT
MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Msjb Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Msjb Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$731k · 26 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
5

Total granted

$731k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+44%

Still filing today

65%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
ReligionYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue ×12
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +106%
  • BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP
    6× · 2019–2024 · $48k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • KH
    KC Healthy Kidsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +39%
  • CP
    CARE PACKAGE INBOUND
    one grant, 2021 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Shield of Faith Missions

Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.

Religion
2
Jewish Voice Ministries Intl

To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…

3
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

4
The Human Choice of Iowa

Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…

Human Services
5
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
6
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
7
Kansas Family Voice Inc

Kfv seeks to establish a kansas where god is honored, religious freedom flourishes, families thrive and life is cherished.

8
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
9
Refuge Kc Inc

We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom

Religion
10
American Bible Society

Since 1816, american bible society has been fulfilling its mission of making the bible available to every person in a language and format each can understand and afford so all people may experience its life-changing message.

Religion
11
Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion
12
Noah's Animal House Foundation

To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Single Mom Kc and the most unlike its peers is Videogames and Esports Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsVeteran Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesJewish Community FederationsFood Pantries & AssistanceDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Youth Development CentersChristian Missionary Organi…Animal Rescue and Adoption
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%16%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%24%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,538

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.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 35 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COLONIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $54,500 · OtherCOLONIAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHWESTSIDE FAMILY CHURCH — $43,000 · OtherWESTSIDE FAMILY CHURCHST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL — $41,000 · OtherST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITALINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $25,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INCCHURCH OF THE HARVEST — $24,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE HARVESTIndividual grant recipient — $19,000 · OtherSHIBA INU RESCUE ASSOCIATION — $13,000 · OtherSave The Children Federation Inc — $19,000 · OtherVALOR RANCH — $30,000 · OtherVALOR RANCHBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $22,000 · OtherBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY+11 more — $73,500 · Other+11 moreSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $61,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP — $48,000 · ReligionBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIPANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $27,000 · ReligionANSWERS IN GENESIS INCTHE SINGLE MOM KC — $10,000 · ReligionTHE SINGLE MOM KC+1 more — $5,000 · ReligionSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $90,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLE…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $42,000 · HealthValor Ranch — $19,000 · HealthHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $39,000 · Food & NutritionMission Pre-Born Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesMothers Refuge — $8,000 · Human ServicesKC Healthy Kids — $5,000 · Human ServicesKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT — $23,000 · AnimalsMIDWEST SHIBA INU RESCUE — $10,000 · Animals
Other$364,000Religion$151,000Education$90,000Health$61,000Food & Nutrition$39,000Human Services$38,000Animals$33,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $61,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP — $48,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $42,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $39,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVALOR RANCH — $30,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetANSWERS IN GENESIS INC — $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT — $23,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SINGLE MOM KC — $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetMIDWEST SHIBA INU RESCUE — $10,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetMothers Refuge — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKC Healthy Kids — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIDEOGAMES AND ESPORTS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
  • Who funds VALOR RANCH
  • Who funds ANSWERS IN GENESIS INC
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC
  • Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT
  • Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
  • Who funds Valor Ranch
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc
  • Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds THE SINGLE MOM KC
  • Who funds MIDWEST SHIBA INU RESCUE
  • Who funds Mothers Refuge
  • Who funds KC Healthy Kids
  • Who funds PROVERBS 31 MINISTRY INC
  • Who funds Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc
  • Who funds VIDEOGAMES AND ESPORTS 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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Signatry Charitable Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Msjb 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Msjb Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Msjb Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph