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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 it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
PREBORN$10,000
MARANTHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$10,000
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS$10,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE$10,000
VALOR RANCH$10,000
OLATHE HOSPICE HOUSE$5,000
PROVERBS 31 MINISTRIES$5,000
ANSWERS IN GENESIS$5,000
HARVESTERS$5,000
CHURCH OF THE HARVEST$4,000
KANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION$3,000
MOTHER'S REFUGE$3,000
COLONIAL PREBYTERIAN CHURCH$3,000
02The need
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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 (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 its 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
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

IL
WI
NY
IN
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MO
KY
VA
MD
KS
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DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Msjb Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Msjb Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.3% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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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
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

  • 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
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.

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Single Mom Kc; 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.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 35 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetMIDWEST SHIBA INU RESCUE: $10,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE SINGLE MOM KC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.7% 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
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 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 Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Valor Ranch ↗
  • Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDWEST SHIBA INU RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds THE SINGLE MOM KC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 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

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 Msjb Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Msjb Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% 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, 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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 35 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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