· Private foundation
Morrison Foundation Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $66,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GREATER SALINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $31,000 |
| MCPHERSON COLLEGE | $26,000 |
| SALINA AREA UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| OLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| PRAIRIE LAND MARKET | $10,000 |
| PHI GAMMA DELTA EDUCATIONAL FOUND | $10,000 |
| FELLOW MAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALINA ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| STIEFEL THEATRE FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| SEAMA | $3,000 |
| SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCAY & PARENTING SERVICES | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% 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.
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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- MCMCPHERSON COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $79k · revenue +62%
- SASALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC4× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +495%
- FMFELLOW MAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- KEKU ENDOWMENT FOR KU SCHOOL OF MEDICINEone grant, 2021 · $25k
- DCDOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +23%
- TCTHE CRISTO REY ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
To serve our community at the crossroads of compassionate healthcare and professional education.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
Enrichment programs and other projects aimed at enhancing the quality of education and educational opportunities for all students.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Support services for saline memorial hospital.
Promote and support economic development
To support and further the development, public awareness, and interest in the fine and performing arts and humanities in salina, kansas. to be a supporting organization to the city of salina, kansas, the arts and humanities commission and…
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Central Kansas Youth Golf Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 58 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 Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SALINA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOW MAN INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OLIVIA BLOOMFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIELAND MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALINA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL COVERS ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TEEN TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds DELTA UPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust · Marshall Family Foundation Inc
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 Morrison Foundation Trust 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.