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Morgan Family Legacy Foundation at a glance

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Morgan Family Legacy Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$305k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$58k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Religion$485kEducation$277kPhilanthropy$183kHuman Services$175kArts & Culture$124kHealth$117kCommunity Improvement$92kEnvironment$32kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DENVER ART MUSEUM$10,000
CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO$10,000
KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION$10,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$10,000
COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER$10,000
FRIEND OF THE CCAR$5,000
CHABAD TORAH LEARNING CENTER$5,000
PLASTIC OCEAN PROJECT$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM: $5k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CA
CO
NE
MO
AZ
KS
NC
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 30% of Morgan Family Legacy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 51% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 30%.

Morgan Family Legacy Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 19 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
8

Total granted

$1.2M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+20%

Still filing today

68%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureEducationScience & TechOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +21%
  • CL
    CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $55k · revenue +5%
  • CP
    COLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • B
    BRANDEIS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • HH
    HOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -1%
  • PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -17%
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.

1
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
The Pardes Jewish Day School Inc

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.

Education
3
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
4
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
5
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
6
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

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.

—
7
Hebrew College

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,…

Education
8
The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Abraham Joshua Heschel Day School

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…

—
11
Park University

Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City; 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.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE BNAI JEHUDAH: $335,500 · OtherTEMPLE BNAI JEHUDAHKENT DENVER FUND: $132,000 · OtherKENT DENVER FUNDUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - CU ARTS & ENTREPRENUERSHIP: $91,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO - CU ARTS & ENTREPRENUERSHIPCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC: $53,500 · OtherCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INCTHE BARSTOW SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherTHE BARSTOW SCHOOLGAN CHABAD TORAH CENTER INC: $45,000 · OtherGAN CHABAD TORAH CENTER INCThe Plastic Ocean Project Inc: $31,500 · Other+9 more: $95,000 · Other+9 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $182,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERAT…THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $170,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMIL…+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $55,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $25,000 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $15,000 · HealthThe Battle Within Inc: $11,500 · HealthJUDAISM YOUR WAY: $69,500 · ReligionTHE MUSSAR INSTITUTE: $10,000 · ReligionBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureDENVER ART MUSEUM: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$834,000Philanthropy$192,500Human Services$175,000Health$106,500Religion$79,500Education$75,000Arts & Culture$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $182,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $170,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUDAISM YOUR WAY: $69,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC: $55,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS CENTER INC: $53,500 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetTHE BARSTOW SCHOOL: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Plastic Ocean Project Inc: $31,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetDENVER ART MUSEUM: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKENT DENVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE HAVEN CHARITABLE TRUST: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Battle Within Inc: $11,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MUSSAR INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds JUDAISM YOUR WAY ↗
  • Who funds CANCER LEAGUE OF COLORADO INC ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • 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 MUSSAR INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC ↗
  • Who funds GRALAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE SHALOM INC ↗

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 C…Patricia Werthan Uhlm…Marion and Henry Bloc…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Servant FoundationThe Denver FoundationColorado Gives Founda…Gerson Family Foundat…Nerman Family Foundat…V & H Charitable Foun…The Dreiseszun Family…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Morgan Family Legacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morgan Family Legacy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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