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The Donald H & Mary Jane Buchanan 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.

$644k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$292k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of THE DONALD H & MARY JANE BUCHANAN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $173k
  • $250k+1 grant · $292k
$17,352
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$291,588
CARDINAL GLENNON HOSPITAL$86,647
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES$86,647
LIFEWISE STL$43,295
COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS$28,901
ST LOUIS AREA FOODBANK$20,197
THE SALVATION ARMY$17,352
LEMAY CHILD & FAMILY CENTER$17,352
THE SMILE TRAIN$14,451
MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION$8,648
ANGELS' ARMS$8,648
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EAST MO$8,591
BOYS & GIRLS TOWN OF MISSOURI$5,803
SUNSHINE MINISTRIES$5,803
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 (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LEMAY CHILD & FAMILY CENTER: $17k → 11%LEMAY CHILD & FAMILY CENTER: $6k → 11%SUNSHINE MINISTRIES: $6k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%SUNSHINE MINISTRIES: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%Sunshine Ministries: $2k → 21%ANGELS' ARMS: $9k → 11%Angel's Arms: $3k → 11%Angel's Arms: $3k → 11%Angel's Arms: $3k → 11%ANGELS' ARMS: $3k → 11%Angel's Arms: $2k → 11%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.

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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 23 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
4

Total granted

$1.8M
$17k

Still filing today

43%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationOther

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

  • KH
    KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL
    4× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +29%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
    5× · 2018–2024 · $69k · revenue +45%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
  • KC
    Keeter Center for Character Ed
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS
    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.

1
Light of Life Ministries Inc

Light of life transforms lives through the love of christ by providing food, shelter, and hope to men, women, and children experiencing homelessness, poverty, or addiction to restore them as healthy members of our community.

Human Services
2
Louisiana United Methodist Children & Family Services Inc

The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…

Human Services
3
Child Center-Marygrove

Providing a safe home, compassionate care and high-quality mental health services to children and youth who have experienced significant trauma, to restore their childhood and equip them to productive adulthood.

Health
4
Sheffield Place

To empower homeless mothers and their children to heal from their trauma and become self-sufficient.

Housing & Shelter
5
Larche St Louis

High quality, 24/7 support in neighborhood homes for persons with intellectual disabilities. inclusive educational opportunities for people in st. louis. changing the way persons with disabilities are seen and highlighting their…

Health
6
Children's Home Society of Missouri

The agency's overarching philosophy is based in the neurosequential model of therapeutics (nmt), developed by dr. bruce perry. nmt is a trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on…

Human Services
7
Good Shepherd Children & Family Services

Connecting children with families and keeping families connected by providing pregnancy and parenting support, foster care programs and adoption services.

8
Good Samaritan Boys Ranch

Good Samaritan Boys Ranch is on a mission to confront the forces that push families into foster care and transform the systems that fail youth as they leave it through a spectrum of residential and community-based services that bring…

Human Services
9
Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service

To provide integrated services such as financial assistance, case management, and referrals to families and individuals of all ages to reduce the propensity for homelessness, abuse and neglect, and to provide the tools to achieve…

10
City Union Mission

City union mission is an evangelical christian ministry committed to sharing the gospel and meeting the spiritual, physical, and emotional needs of men, women, and children who are poor and/or homeless in kansas city.

Housing & Shelter
11
Food Outreach Inc

To provide nutritional support and enhance the quality of life of men, women, and children living with hiv/aids or cancer

Food & Nutrition
12
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lemay Child and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Megan Meier Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL — $816,588 · OtherST LOUIS CHILDRENS HOSPITALCARDINAL GLENNON HOSPITAL — $146,647 · OtherCARDINAL GLENNON HOSPITALRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — $146,647 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESCardinal Glennon Children's Hospita — $120,000 · OtherCardinal Glennon Children's HospitaRonald McDonald House Charities of — $110,000 · OtherRonald McDonald House Charities ofST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $55,197 · Other+15 more — $225,197 · Other+15 moreKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $88,295 · Youth DevelopmentMEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION — $23,648 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS — $68,901 · EducationLEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER — $23,352 · Human ServicesANGELS' ARMS — $22,648 · Human ServicesSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC — $15,803 · Human Services
Other$1,620,276Youth Development$111,943Education$68,901Human Services$61,803

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 budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL — $88,295 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS — $68,901 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC — $55,197 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC — $39,451 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION — $23,648 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetLEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER — $23,352 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetANGELS' ARMS — $22,648 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC — $15,803 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED SPECIAL SPORTSMAN ALLIANCE I — $10,000 over 5y, 0.7% 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 KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
  • Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC
  • Who funds MEGAN MEIER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEMAY CHILD AND FAMILY CENTER
  • Who funds ANGELS' ARMS
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SUNSHINE MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds UNITED SPECIAL SPORTSMAN ALLIANCE I

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 The Donald H & Mary Jane Buchanan 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%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s 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 · 0–25%
    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 The Donald H & Mary Jane Buchanan Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Donald H & Mary Jane Buchanan 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 27 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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