How much did THE DON & JEAN WAGNER CHARITABLE grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE DON & JEAN WAGNER CHARITABLE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

jewishplaza

2019

plaza

2020

—

2021

—

2022

churchepiscopalpolice

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k23 grants · $81k
$10k–50k4 grants · $81k
$50k–250k1 grant · $54k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.1M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE KANSAS CITY ZOO$54,250
POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY$34,500
STARLIGHT THEATER$22,600
ALS ASSOCIATION$13,500
PEMBROKE HILL$10,000
TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE$9,985
ROYALS CHARITIES$7,850
POWER FOR PARKINSON'S$6,200
ST ANN CATHOLIC SCHOOL$5,000
WAYSIDE WAIFS$5,000
UMKC FOUNDATION$5,000
BOTAR$5,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$5,000
ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL$5,000
FOLLY THEATER$4,660

02The need

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 (FY21–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

$1.4M · 38 repeat orgs$82k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.4M

$41k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+33%

Still filing today

47%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther

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

PF
POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY
5× · 2018–2024 · $180k · revenue +513%
UF
UMKC FOUNDATION
5× · 2018–2024 · $126k · revenue +364%
TS
THOMAS S WATSON SUPPORTING FOUNDATION
2× · 2019–2020 · $105k · revenue +135308%

Funded once

TM
TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +31%
CU
CITY UNION MISSIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +33%
NA
NORTH AMERICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE YOUTH AND POLICE INITIATIVE
one grant, 2022 · $5k

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.

Kansas City University

Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.

Education

University of Kansas School of Medicine-

Patient care and research are offered to provide education to members and students and to offer quality care to individuals without regard to the patients ability to pay.

Human Services

University of Kansas Medical Alumni

Alumni association

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Cleveland University - Kansas City

To provide a strong, student-centered professional education with a focus in the areas of life sciences and health promotion through education, scholarship, and service.

Health

The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the University of Kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education

University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the edwards campus union, residential dining halls, and other…

Education

Kansas Medical Foundation

Develop public educational programs promoting medicine.

Education

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation

The greater kansas city community foundation helps donors create their charitable legacies, so they can make the world a better place.

Philanthropy

Jefferson Regional Foundation

Improve the health & well-being of the community of jefferson hospital through grantmaking, education, & outreach.

Health

The Children's Mercy Hospital Foundation

To provide support for the activities and mission of The Children's Mercy Hospital.

Health

Kansas Pharmacy Foundation

The kansas pharmacy foundation is organized exclusively for scientific and education purposes to further the welfare and integrity of the profession of pharmacy and for the enhancement of public health.

Health

Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstones of Care and the most unlike its peers is The Children's Mercy Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/28

the rest of the field

11%

949/8,396

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

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

21/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$808,315Education$242,000Crime & Legal$179,580Recreation & Sports$106,000Philanthropy$44,158Community Improvement$40,000Health$20,750

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

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.

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 FoundationMO35× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation Of · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic · The Sherman Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Merriman Foundation · The Atterbury Family Foundation · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · William T Kemper Charitable Trust 10015200

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 organisation THE DON & JEAN WAGNER CHARITABLE 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: KANSAS CITY HEALING PROJECT.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 431811465 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on KANSAS CITY HEALING PROJECT, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable?

Find your warmest path to The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE DON & JEAN WAGNER CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable?

More from the funding graph

THE DON & JEAN WAGNER CHARITABLE

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable?

More from the funding graph