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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $256k
- $250k+1 grant · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROCKHURST HIGH SCHOOL | $259,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE | $56,000 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| AVILA UNIV ST THERESE SCHOLARSHIP | $50,000 |
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NE KANSAS | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL'S OUTREACH | $35,000 |
| BISHOP WARD HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BENEDICTINE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| DONNELLY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| SUPPORT KIDS FOUNDATION | $13,100 |
| FARNAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER | $13,000 |
| DANCING WITH THE STARS | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| MERCY HOME | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
125 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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
- BFBRIGHT FUTURES FUND7× · 2017–2023 · $945k · revenue +627% · 27% of their budget
- AUAVILA UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $646k · revenue +72%
- RUROCKHURST UNIVERSITY6× · 2017–2024 · $416k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- COCATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTone grant, 2023 · $25k
- CRCHRISTO REYone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
The kansas humane society is a community resource for pets and people, dedicated to enhancing the welfare of all companion animals.
A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stymie Canine Cancer Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
87 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. 87 of the 248 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BRIGHT FUTURES FUND ↗
- Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Welcome House Inc ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONES OF CARE ↗
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 · 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
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 McCullough Family Foundation 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.