· Private foundation
Martin Mary Elizabeth Scholarship
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH SYMPHONY OF KANSAS CITY | $2,000 |
| SERTOMA INC | $2,000 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NORTHLAND HEALTH CARE ACCESS | $2,000 |
| KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU | $2,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS OF GREATER KC | $2,000 |
| NORTHLAND EARLY EDUCATION CENTER | $2,000 |
| GREAT JOBS KANSAS CITY | $2,000 |
| KC BLIND ALLSTARS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $2,000 |
| DONNELLY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT FUND | $2,000 |
| SHEPHERDS CENTER OF KANSAS CITY | $2,000 |
| HOPE CENTER INC | $2,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TRTHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +24%
- DCDonnelly College7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +166%
- LKLITERACY KANSAS CITY6× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +310%
Funded once
- T2THE 2GETHERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
- USUNITED SERVICES COMMUNITY ACTION AGYone grant, 2018 · $3k
- UOUniversity of Central Missouri Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +88%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
Jag-k is committed to partnering with students to help them overcome challenges, graduate from high school, and prepare for college or career pathways that will help them reach their full potential as leaders for their families, employers,…
Kansel is dedicated to the fearless pursuit of academic and economic empowerment of our students and our community through recognizing individual needs and creating flexible education opportunities.
Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.
To prepare students for advanced education, successful careers and responsible citizenship through academic excellence and humanitarian ideals.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Central Missouri Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Hiv League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 81 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds SERTOMA INC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC ↗
- Who funds KEARNEY ENRICHMENT COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT JOBS KC INC ↗
- Who funds Northland Health Care Access ↗
- Who funds HORIZON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds IVY TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Northland Early Education Cent ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds University of Central Missouri Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BAND OF ANGELS CORP ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · The Sherman Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Victor E Speas Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · McCullough Family 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 Martin Mary Elizabeth Scholarship 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.
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.