· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NE KANSAS | $50,000 |
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| ST PAUL'S OUTREACH | $35,000 |
| BENEDICTINE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| DONNELLY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| BISHOP WARD HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SUPPORT KIDS FOUNDATION | $13,100 |
| FARNAN SPIRITUALITY CENTER | $13,000 |
| CATHOLIC EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| DANCING WITH THE STARS | $10,000 |
| MERCY HOME | $8,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- COCATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTone grant, 2023 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- CRCHRISTO REYone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
87 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. 87 of the 248 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCullough Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCullough Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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