Missouri · Private foundation
Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $750,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 37 | $1.1M | 11% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $1.1M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $443k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $902k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 42 | $775k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $770k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umkc Foundation | $1,503,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Operation Breakthrough Inc | $316,630 | 6 | 1% |
| Saint Lukes Foundation | $253,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Salvation Army | $186,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc | $175,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Kansas City Community Gardens Inc | $158,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Womens Employment Network | $150,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Junior Achievement of Middle America Inc | $144,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Union Station Kansas City Inc | $115,000 | 6 | 1% |
| High Aspirations Incorporated | $110,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($899k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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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 · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sunderland Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation
- How much does Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation give?
- Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation reported 40 grants totaling $1,144,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (21%), International (9%).
- Who are Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Umkc Foundation ($1.5M), Operation Breakthrough Inc ($317k), Saint Lukes Foundation ($253k).
- Does Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Miller Nichols Charitable 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 Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The H & R Block Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
- Where is Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation based?
- Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation is based in MO.
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