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The Jager Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
$2,500
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Johns Hopkins University$150,000
Kansas University Endowment Fund$100,250
St Pauls Episcopal Day School$35,000
Linda Hall Library$10,000
Mayo Clinic$10,000
America Red Cross$10,000
The Jewel Ball$9,120
The Nelson Gallery Foundation$8,040
Camp Quality USA$2,500
Heart of America Shakespeare Festival$2,500
The Preserve Community Foundation$2,500
Maddies Mission Foundation$1,500
Wallaby Foundation for Financial Assistance for Veterinary Care$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,250
Pembroke Hill School$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $1k → 16%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI: $5k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S PLACE: $15k → 14%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI: $3k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S PLACE: $2k → 14%MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI: $3k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.7M · 29 repeat orgs$246k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
21

Total granted

$1.7M
$134k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+13%

Still filing today

66%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $839k · revenue +25%
  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    2× · 2019–2020 · $114k · revenue +6%
  • TN
    THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $56k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • KE
    KU ENDOWMENT FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • PG
    POWELL GARDENS
    one grant, 2019 · $11k
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MERCY
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Missouri and Kansas; the most unlike its peers is Wallaby Foundation for Financial Assista. 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

34 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. 34 of the 58 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $839,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $113,500 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment AssociationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL: $103,000 · EducationPEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL+6 more: $39,835 · EducationST PAULS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL KANSAS CITY: $263,000 · OtherST PAULS EPISCOPAL DAY SCHOOL KANSAS C…Kansas University Endowment Fund: $100,250 · OtherKansas University Endowment FundAMERICAN RED CROSS: $51,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSSLINDA HALL LIBRARY: $45,000 · OtherLINDA HALL LIBRARYThe Jewel Ball: $31,215 · OtherKU ENDOWMENT FUND: $30,100 · Other+26 more: $160,160 · Other+26 moreWALLACE RHEUMATIC DISEASE FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC: $10,000 · HealthMONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthMADDIES MISSION FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION: $56,221 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $3,100 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $20,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Public BenefitTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION: $16,650 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS: $11,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $7,500 · Environment+1 more: $100 · Environment
Education$1,095,335Other$680,725Health$73,000Arts & Culture$69,421Public Benefit$40,000Human Services$38,650Environment$7,600

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 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 budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% 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
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.

  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
  • Who funds PEMBROKE HILL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WALLACE RHEUMATIC DISEASE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MISSOURI AND KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
  • Who funds PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP QUALITY USA INC ↗

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 C…Jewish Community Foun…The Francis Family Fo…William T Kemper Foun…Spaulding Family Foun…The Sosland FoundationThe Torosian Foundati…Oppenstein Brothers F…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…Ewing Marion Kauffman…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Jager Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jager Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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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