Missouri · Private foundation
The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable 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.
- $216k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $54,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 28 | $216k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $242k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $234k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $187k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $183k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $193k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $185k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk | $287,750 | 4 | 0% |
| Police Foundation of Kansas City | $179,580 | 5 | 5% |
| Umkc Foundation | $126,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Thomas S Watson Supporting Foundation | $105,000 | 2 | 19% |
| Umkc Trustees | $69,000 | 3 | 4% |
| The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs | $49,705 | 6 | 0% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Performing Arts Foundation of Kansas City | $36,220 | 7 | 0% |
| The Kansas City Royals Foundation | $33,084 | 6 | 1% |
| St Pauls Episcopal Day School Kansas City | $22,750 | 3 | n/a |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · The Torosian Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Atterbury Family Foundation · Merriman Foundation · Ralph L Smith Foundation 13952400
How this is measured
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About The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation
- How much does The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation give?
- The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $215,745 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (24%), Animals (21%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Friends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk ($288k), Police Foundation of Kansas City ($180k), Umkc Foundation ($126k).
- Does The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
- Where is The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation based?
- The Don & Jean Wagner Charitable Foundation is based in MO.
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