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Miller-Mellor Association
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k50 grants · $197k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE'S WOMEN'S CARDIAC CENTER | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| UMKC FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| KC CARE HEALTH CENTER | $12,000 |
| KANSAS CITY CHORALE | $10,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $10,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY - FACULTY OF ARTS & SCIENCES | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT | $10,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S PARISH | $8,745 |
| MISSOURI GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE | $8,745 |
| LIFE UNLIMITED | $8,745 |
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, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +26% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 19 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TMThe Myositis Association7× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +14%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +67%
- KCKansas City CARE Clinic9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +312%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Missourione grant, 2020 · $10k
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SPSt Patrick's Early Childhood Centerone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
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.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
Opera theatre's mission is to shape a vibrant future for opera by connecting, inspiring, and entertaining our communities through the power and beauty of the art form; to foster the next generation by empowering a diverse group of artists,…
The colorado symphony association (csa) is a not-for-profit organization established to fund and operate the colorado symphony orchestra for the enjoyment and benefit of the citizens of metropolitan denver and (cont'd on schedule…
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Ballet Association and the most unlike its peers is The Harry S Truman Library Institute National and International Affairs. 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 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
51 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. 51 of the 108 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 Myositis Association ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗
- Who funds LEE'S SUMMIT SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
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 · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Copaken Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Estelle S and Robert a Long Ellis Foundation · Breidenthal-Snyder Foundation Inc · J B Reynolds Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc
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 Miller-Mellor Association 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.
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