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Martin Mary Elizabeth Scholarship at a glance

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Martin Mary Elizabeth Scholarship

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$32k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$177kHuman Services$68kHealth$60kArts & Culture$20kYouth Development$18kEmployment$17kReligion$13kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$702k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHLAND HEALTH CARE ACCESS$2,000
BOYS AND GIRLS OF GREATER KC$2,000
SHEPHERDS CENTER OF KANSAS CITY$2,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY$2,000
HOPE CENTER INC$2,000
SERTOMA INC$2,000
THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION$2,000
GREAT JOBS KANSAS CITY$2,000
WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT NETWORK$2,000
DONNELLY COLLEGE$2,000
YOUTH SYMPHONY OF KANSAS CITY$2,000
NORTHLAND EARLY EDUCATION CENTER$2,000
KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOU$2,000
KC BLIND ALLSTARS FOUNDATION$2,000
HISPANIC DEVELOPMENT FUND$2,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PROJECT LEAD INC: $3k → 13%TFI FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 5%KEARNEY ENRICHMENT COUNCIL: $2k → 8%KEARNEY ENRICHMENT COUNCIL: $2k → 8%KEARNEY ENRICHMENT COUNCIL: $2k → 8%KEARNEY ENRICHMENT COUNCIL: $2k → 8%HOPE CENTER INC: $3k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $2k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $2k → 15%HOPE CENTER INC: $1k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $2k → 15%SERTOMA INC: $3k → 15%SERTOMA INC: $3k → 15%SERTOMA INC: $3k → 15%SERTOMA INC: $3k → 15%SERTOMA INC: $2k → 15%SERTOMA INC: $2k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $3k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
IN
PA
MO
KY
NM
KS
AR
TX
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$274k · 32 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
43

Total granted

$274k
$99k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+16%

Still filing today

75%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureEmploymentReligionOther
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

  • TR
    THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +24%
  • DC
    Donnelly College
    7× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +166%
  • LK
    LITERACY KANSAS CITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +310%

Funded once

  • T2
    THE 2GETHERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
  • US
    UNITED SERVICES COMMUNITY ACTION AGY
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • UO
    University of Central Missouri Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +88%
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
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
2
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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3
Union College

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.

Education
4
Kansas City Art Institute

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.

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
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
7
Hope Leadership Academy

To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.

Education
8
Central Christian College of Kansas

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.

Education
9
Jobs for America's Graduates - Kansas I

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,…

Education
10
Kansas School for Effective Learning in

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.

—
11
Tabor College

Preparing people for a life of learning, work, and service for Christ and His kingdom.

Education
12
Topeka Collegiate School Inc

To prepare students for advanced education, successful careers and responsible citizenship through academic excellence and humanitarian ideals.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Central Missouri Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 81 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LITERACY KANSAS CITY: $16,500 · OtherLITERACY KANSAS CITYASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $12,500 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITYKC SCHOLARSINC: $10,000 · OtherKC SCHOLARSINCMETRO COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $8,500 · OtherCATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $8,500 · OtherSHEPHERD'S CENTER OF KANSAS CITY: $7,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KANSAS CITY: $7,000 · OtherSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS: $6,500 · Other+36 more: $97,835 · Other+36 moreDonnelly College: $18,000 · EducationDonnelly CollegeAVILA UNIVERSITY: $11,500 · EducationAVILA UNIVERSITYBEREA COLLEGE: $10,500 · EducationBEREA COLLEGEPARK UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationPARK UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC: $8,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INCWilliam Jewell College: $7,500 · EducationWilliam Jewell CollegeGREAT JOBS KC INC: $7,000 · EducationGREAT JOBS KC INCHORIZON ACADEMY: $6,500 · EducationHORIZON ACADEMYIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 · Education+9 more: $19,500 · Education+9 moreTHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $24,000 · HealthTHE RESEARCH…Amethyst Place Inc: $7,500 · HealthAmethyst Pla…Northland Health Care Access: $7,000 · HealthNorthland He…JOSHUA CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS: $3,000 · HealthJOSHUA CENTE…LEE'S SUMMIT CARES: $2,000 · HealthSERTOMA INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSERTOMA INCKEARNEY ENRICHMENT COUNCIL: $8,000 · Human ServicesKEARNEY ENRI…THE HOPE CENTER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE HOPE CEN…PROJECT LEAD INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT LEAD…UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesUNITED INNER…TFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesTFI FAMILY S…THE DON BOSCO CENTERS: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE DON BOSC…Kansas City Hospice Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $10,000 · EmploymentBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $3,000 · Arts & CultureUNICORN THEATRE: $1,500 · Arts & CultureSPINNING TREE THEATRE: $1,000 · Arts & CultureKansas City Architectural Foundation: $1,000 · Arts & CultureCHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF YORK INC: $2,500 · Religion
Other$174,835Education$104,000Health$43,500Human Services$43,500Employment$10,000Arts & Culture$6,500Religion$2,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDonnelly College: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $16,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSERTOMA INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEREA COLLEGE: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPARK UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEARNEY ENRICHMENT COUNCIL: $8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOPE CENTER INC: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT JOBS KC INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthland Health Care Access: $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHORIZON ACADEMY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorthland Early Education Cent: $4,846 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN LUTHERAN MINISTRY: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Central Missouri Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LEAD INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCKHURST UNIVERSITY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELTON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHBCU WALKING BILLBOARD: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE DON BOSCO CENTERS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION OF YORK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKC BLIND ALL-STARS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEE'S SUMMIT CARES: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNICORN THEATRE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatching the Dream: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEES SUMMIT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPINNING TREE THEATRE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKansas City Architectural Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDUAL CREDIT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

  • 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 Amethyst Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds William Jewell College ↗
  • 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 PROJECT LEAD INC ↗
  • Who funds BAND OF ANGELS CORP ↗
  • Who funds JOSHUA CENTER FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS ↗

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…United Way of Greater…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Health Forward Founda…R a Long Foundation 6…The Sherman Family Fo…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…Victor E Speas Founda…The Kansas City Royal…McCullough Family Fou…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO61.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Martin Mary Elizabeth Scholarship funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin Mary Elizabeth Scholarship. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 81 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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