· Private foundation
Miller-Mellor Association
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| 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 |
| KANSAS CITY CHORALE | $10,000 |
| LIFE UNLIMITED | $8,745 |
| ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL | $8,745 |
| MISSOURI GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE | $8,745 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +15% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- ECEARLY CHILDHOOD CENTERone grant, 2021 · $10k
- UOUniversity of Missourione grant, 2020 · $10k
- SPSt Patrick's Early Childhood Centerone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
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.
How this is measured
51 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. 51 of the 108 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
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 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- 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 GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Miller-Mellor Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miller-Mellor Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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