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The Jager 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.

$349k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
35%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
15 to 24
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$5.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations The Jager Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthPublic BenefitHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$336k28%
FY202417$352k35%
FY202315$215k13%
FY202220$247k35%
FY202124$298k29%
FY202021$242k33%
FY201921$291kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.5MHealth$110kArts & Culture$98kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kRecreation & Sports$49kPublic Benefit$40kEnvironment$29kHuman Services$29kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
CA
MO
VA
MD
AZ
KS
DC
OK
MS

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Johns Hopkins University$839,00070%
St Pauls Episcopal Day School Kansas City$263,0007n/a
The Kansas University Endowment Association$113,50020%
Pembroke Hill School$103,00060%
The Nelson Gallery Foundation$56,22170%
Wallace Rheumatic Disease Foundation$40,00047%
Judicial Watch Inc$20,00020%
Cato Institute$20,00020%
Powell Gardens Inc$20,00020%
The Children's Place Association$16,65020%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($357k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Jager Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohns Hopkins University: $839,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $113,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPembroke Hill School: $103,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Nelson Gallery Foundation: $56,221 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWallace Rheumatic Disease Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCato Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPowell Gardens Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Children's Place Association: $16,650 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Barstow School: $15,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRose Brooks Center Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNavy Seal Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMontage Health Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Breakthrough Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs: $8,985 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKansas City Community Gardens Inc: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAbility Kc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Quality USA Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeart of America Shakespeare Festival: $3,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMaddies Mission Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUmkc Foundation: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWallaby Foundation for Financial Assista: $1,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetThe Family Conservancy: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarmel-by-the-Sea Garden Club: $100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHarvesters - the Community Food Network: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City Jazz Orchestra: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Geographic Society: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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 FoundationMO24× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Spaulding Family Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · The Torosian Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman 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.

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About The Jager Family Foundation

How much does The Jager Family Foundation give?
The Jager Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $348,760 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does The Jager Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (77%), Health (5%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are The Jager Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($839k), St Pauls Episcopal Day School Kansas City ($263k), The Kansas University Endowment Association ($114k).
Does The Jager Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Jager Family 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 Jager Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City, The Francis Family Foundation.
Where is The Jager Family Foundation based?
The Jager Family Foundation is based in KS.

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 58 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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