· Private foundation
Morgan Family Legacy Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE TEMPLE CONGREGATION B'NAI JEHUDAH | $58,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $45,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $35,000 |
| STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY | $30,000 |
| JUDAISM YOUR WAY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - CU ARTS & ENTREPRENUERSHIP | $25,000 |
| KENT DENVER FUND | $17,000 |
| COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DENVER ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLASTIC OCEAN PROJECT | $5,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAUAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| FRIEND OF THE CCAR | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 30% of Morgan Family Legacy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 30% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +21%
- CLCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +5%
- CPCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- BBRANDEISone grant, 2021 · $20k
- HHHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -1%
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -17%
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The pardes jewish day school prepares students to become outstanding members of society through a rigorous secular and judaic education, a nurturing community, and a foundation in reform judaism that welcomes all jewish traditions.
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
KU Hillel's mission is to connect Jewish students to each other and to their Judaism, to inspire and equip the next generation of Jewish leaders, and to build a thriving Jewish community on campus.
Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…
Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Abraham joshua heschel day school cultivates students' natural sense of wonder into an exceptionally rich education that encourages critical thinking, creativity, and compassion. in partnership with our families, we inspire our students to…
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is The Plastic Ocean Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds The Plastic Ocean Project Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds The Battle Within Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSSAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM 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 · Patricia Werthan Uhlmann Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Gerson Family Foundation · Nerman Family Foundation · V & H Charitable Foundation · The Dreiseszun Family Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund
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 Morgan Family Legacy 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.
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
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.