Texas · Private foundation
W J Brace Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $402k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2026
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 4
- Total assets, FY2026
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 35% of the organizations W J Brace Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 20 | $402k | 35% |
| FY2025 | 17 | $360k | 35% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $365k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $412k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $359k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $343k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $347k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $331k | 64% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultivate Kansas City Inc | $210,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Watkins Mill Association Inc | $203,274 | 8 | 72% |
| Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Northland Shepherd's Center | $121,905 | 8 | 2% |
| Heartland Outreach Providers | $107,200 | 6 | 4% |
| Girl Scouts of Ne Kansas and Nw Missouri Inc | $103,000 | 3 | 0% |
| River of Refuge | $100,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Kansas City CARE Clinic | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Hopebuilders Home Repair Inc | $87,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Food Equality Initiative Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 6% |
Show all 50 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($970k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
W J Brace Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund
How this is measured
About W J Brace Charitable Trust
- How much does W J Brace Charitable Trust give?
- W J Brace Charitable Trust reported 20 grants totaling $401,650 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does W J Brace Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Health (16%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are W J Brace Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Cultivate Kansas City Inc ($210k), Watkins Mill Association Inc ($203k), Rebuilding Together Kansas City Inc ($135k).
- Does W J Brace Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does W J Brace Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as W J Brace Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, The H & R Block Foundation.
- Where is W J Brace Charitable Trust based?
- W J Brace Charitable Trust is based in TX.
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