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.

Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation

Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$750k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$1.8MArts & Culture$1.1MInternational$461kYouth Development$430kEmployment$401kHealth$346kFood & Nutrition$238kHuman Services$224kOther$0

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $65k
$10k–50k14 grants · $280k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$250k+1 grant · $750k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UMKC FOUNDATION	$750,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KC	$50,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH	$40,000
KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS	$30,000
THE SALVATION ARMY	$30,000
HIGH ASPIRATIONS	$30,000
WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT NETWORK	$25,000
KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE	$25,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA	$25,000
KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION	$15,000
REDISCOVER	$10,000
ENGLISH IN ACTION	$10,000
KANSAS CITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA	$10,000
REDISCOVER	$10,000
KANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.0M · 51 repeat orgs$130k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.0M

$112k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

-16%

Still filing today

65%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

OB
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $317k · revenue +23%
KC
KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +32%
KC
KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +50%

Funded once

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KC
one grant, 2023 · $48k
TD
THE DON BOSCO CENTERS
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -32%
CO
CITY OF FOUNTAINS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $16k · revenue -34%

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.

04Its field

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.

Kansas City Art Institute

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.

Education

Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture

Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

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.

Arts & Culture

Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

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…

Arts & Culture

Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

—

The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education

Kansas Farm Bureau

Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.

—

Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition

Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City

To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.

—

Kansas City Country Club

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…

—

University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

42 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. 42 of the 69 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

27/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,857,130Other$1,699,646Arts & Culture$894,081Health$274,500Environment$163,000Employment$150,000International$144,000

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.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO51.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Miller Nichols Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

Play a game based on Miller Nichols’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home