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Rjs Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$390k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Health$313kRecreation & Sports$50kEducation$35kArts & Culture$25kHousing & Shelter$10kInternational$10kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$500Other$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $164k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $220k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL FUND$70,000
FOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ATHLETICS$50,000
KU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP$35,000
ADVENTHEALTH FOUNDATION$33,710
MADDIE'S MISSION FOUNDATION$30,000
VARIETY OF KANSAS CITY$25,000
KU ENDOWMENT$10,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$10,000
CHICAGO STREET MEDICINE$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$5,000
KANSAS CITY HOSPICE$1,000
JAY'S HOPE$500
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 (FY24–24, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CHICAGO STREET MEDICINE: $10k → 14%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE: $1k → 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.
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.
03Its 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.

1
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
3
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
4
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
7
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
8
PACS1 Syndrome Research Foundation
Health
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
12
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

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Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Angelman Syndrome Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Chicago Street Medicine. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 22 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)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL FUND: $70,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ATHLETICS: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ATHLETICSKU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP: $35,000 · OtherKU SCHOOL OF EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIPVARIETY OF KANSAS CITY: $25,000 · OtherVARIETY OF KANSAS CITYKU ENDOWMENT: $10,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $12,776 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS: $100,000 · HealthFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICSAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $53,710 · HealthAdventHealth Kansas City FoundationMADDIES MISSION FOUNDATION: $30,000 · HealthMADDIES MISSION FOUNDATIONThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $15,112 · HealthThe Children's Mercy HospitalANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthCHICAGO STREET MEDICINE: $10,000 · Human ServicesKansas City Hospice Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 · InternationalJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $500 · PhilanthropyJAYS HOPE: $500 · Education
Other$262,776Health$213,822Human Services$11,000International$10,000Philanthropy$500Education$500

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 budgetFOUNDATION FOR ANGELMAN SYNDROME THERAPEUTICS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $53,710 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMADDIES MISSION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $15,112 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELMAN SYNDROME FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAYS HOPE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
National Philanthropic TrustPA8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
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no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Rjs Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Rjs 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 22 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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