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The Jim and Gaynell Magers Family 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.

$225k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$100kHousing & Shelter$85kHealth$50kHuman Services$50kAnimals$40k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARE TO LEARN$50,000
BETHLEHEM INN$50,000
ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$25,000
EL RIO FOUNDATION$25,000
GENTLE GIANTS RESCUE AND ADOPTIONS INC$25,000
OZARKS FOOD HARVEST$25,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE KITCHEN: $10k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $50k → 15%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.
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 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
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
2
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
3
City Harvest Inc

To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.

Food & Nutrition
4
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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5
Community Kitchen

Providing food for people who are hungry, conversation for people who are lonely, rest for people who are struggling, and a voice for people in need.

Food & Nutrition
6
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
7
America's Second Harvest of the Big Bend Inc

To advance change by feeding the hungry and educating and engaging the community in the fight to end hunger.

Food & Nutrition
8
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…

Food & Nutrition
9
Cascades Humane Society Inc

The society's mission is to ensure responsible treatment of animals, to decrease the number of abused and unwanted animals, and to conduct community programs which promote quality animal care

Animals
10
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

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11
Helping Animals Live & Overcome in

Helping animals live and overcome (h.a.l.o.) provides a no-kill safe haven where extraordinary measures are taken to save homeless pets and protect them from abuse and neglect. we continually refine our programs to maintain a 98% save…

Animals
12
Roadrunner Food Bank Inc

To feed every hungry person today, to seed partnerships that build self- sufficiency for tomorrow, and lead to achieve our vision of permanently ending hunger in new mexico.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Kitchen Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gentle Giants Rescue and Adoptions Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETHLEHEM INN: $75,000 · Housing & ShelterBETHLEHEM INNOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INCCommunity Food Bank Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank IncCare to Learn: $50,000 · Human ServicesCare to LearnTHE KITCHEN INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE KITCHEN INCGENTLE GIANTS RESCUE AND ADOPTIONS INC: $25,000 · AnimalsGENTLE GIANTS…HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $15,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIET…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 · HealthEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SO ARIZONA: $25,000 · Other
Housing & Shelter$75,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Human Services$60,000Animals$40,000Health$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Other$25,000

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 budgetBETHLEHEM INN: $75,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCare to Learn: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL RIO FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS RESCUE AND ADOPTIONS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Commerce Bancshares FoundationMO13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jim and Gaynell Magers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jim and Gaynell Magers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bethlehem Inn: 0% of 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 · 0–50%
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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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