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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMKC FOUNDATION | $750,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KC | $50,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $40,000 |
| HIGH ASPIRATIONS | $30,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS | $30,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA | $25,000 |
| WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT NETWORK | $25,000 |
| KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE | $25,000 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| ENGLISH IN ACTION | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| ENGLISH IN ACTION | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE | $10,000 |
| REDISCOVER | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 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; $18k 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
- OBOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC6× · 2020–2025 · $317k · revenue +23%
- KCKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +32%
- KCKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KCone grant, 2023 · $48k
- TDTHE DON BOSCO CENTERSone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -32%
- COCITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue -34%
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 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.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
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 museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
To enrich the lives of everyone in our community through extraordinary and diverse performing arts experiences. these experiences are provided through programs, customer service, and education.(continued on schedule o)programs: showcase a…
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Many Mothers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 69 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 UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS EMPLOYMENT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH ASPIRATIONS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Rediscover ↗
- Who funds KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LITERACY KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds English in Action ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE HARVEST ↗
- Who funds THE DON BOSCO CENTERS ↗
- Who funds CITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kansas City CARE Clinic ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS 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 · 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
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 Nichols Charitable 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.
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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