Missouri · Private foundation
McCullough 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.
- $860k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2024
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $259,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 70 to 126
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations McCullough Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 71 | $857k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $555k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $615k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $250k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 87 | $633k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 87 | $1.6M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 80 | $1.9M | 15% |
| FY2017 | 126 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockhurst High School | $1,110,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Bright Futures Fund | $944,500 | 7 | 27% |
| Avila University | $646,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Rockhurst University | $416,303 | 6 | 0% |
| St Thomas More | $381,940 | 8 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey Kansas City Sisters of Chari Ty of Leavenworth High School | $255,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Benedictine College | $230,500 | 3 | 0% |
| St Teresa's Academy | $147,500 | 6 | n/a |
| St Pauls Outreach Inc | $68,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $66,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 101 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 145 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McCullough Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 81 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The McGee Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Dehaemers Family Charitable Trust · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
How this is measured
About McCullough Family Foundation
- How much does McCullough Family Foundation give?
- McCullough Family Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $859,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 70 and 126 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does McCullough Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Religion (16%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are McCullough Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rockhurst High School ($1.1M), Bright Futures Fund ($945k), Avila University ($646k).
- Does McCullough Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McCullough Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McCullough Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees, Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation.
- Where is McCullough Family Foundation based?
- McCullough Family Foundation is based in MO.
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