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Mullinix Family Foundation at a glance

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Mullinix Family 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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$1.9MInternational$1.2MHousing & Shelter$650kPublic Safety & Disaster$212kEducation$115kArts & Culture$80kHealth$50kAnimals$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $940k
  • $250k+1 grant · $400k
$55,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC$400,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC$150,000
CENTER OF GRACE INC$125,000
NEW HOUSE$110,000
AMETHYST PLACE INC$100,000
KABNE'S MARKET$100,000
CROSSLINES MINISTRY INC$100,000
FLOURISH FURNISHINGS$100,000
HAPPYBOTTOMS$55,000
GIVING THE BASICS WICHITA INC$50,000
THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC$50,000
BASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC KC$25,000
GREATER KC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
THE HUB$20,000
HILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA$15,000
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 (FY22–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $500k → 16%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $400k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $250k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $200k → 15%CENTER OF GRACE INC: $125k → 5%CENTER OF GRACE: $100k → 5%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $55k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $55k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $25k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $25k → 15%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.
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.6M · 17 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$4.6M
$805k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+1%

Still filing today

88%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $330k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsEducationInternationalOther
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
    4× · 2022–2025 · $975k · revenue +17%
  • FC
    FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $850k · revenue +12%
  • AP
    Amethyst Place Inc
    3× · 2022–2024 · $315k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • CC
    CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -18%
  • HT
    HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +23%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%
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
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
2
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
3
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
4
Greater Kansas City Coalition to End Homelessness

This organization is committed to community networking and coalition building to help eradicate homelessness in the Greater Kansas City metro area. The organization was formed to address the concerns and interests of the homeless…

Housing & Shelter
5
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
6
Hope Faith Ministries Inc

Hope Faith Ministries Inc. works to alleviate homelessness and poverty in the Kansas City area by providing basic necessities and assistance while also providing critical programs to help empower individ

Human Services
7
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
8
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
9
Refuge Kc Inc

We exist to welcome our new-American neighbors with Gospel-focused ministries of mercy so they might know, love, and follow Jesus into His Kingdom

Religion
10
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
11
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
12
House Everyone Stl

Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc; the most unlike its peers is Three Dog Night Charities. 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

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $850,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INCCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INCHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA: $290,000 · Human ServicesHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICACENTER OF GRACE INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF GRACE INCHAPPYBOTTOMS: $160,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMSARMS OF GRACE INC: $350,000 · OtherARMS OF GRACE INCCROSSLINES MINISTRY INC: $312,000 · OtherCROSSLINES MINISTRY INCGIVING THE BASICS WICHITA INC: $165,000 · OtherGIVING THE BASICS WICHITA INCROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $125,000 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INCNEWHOUSE INC: $110,000 · OtherNEWHOUSE INCAMETHYST PLACE INC: $100,000 · OtherAMETHYST PLACE INCBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $70,000 · OtherKANBE'S MARKETS: $100,000 · OtherKANBE'S MARKETSTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $75,000 · Other+6 more: $145,000 · Other+6 moreOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $975,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHRO…Amethyst Place Inc: $315,000 · HealthAmethyst P…GLOBAL CARE FORCE: $171,175 · HealthGLOBAL CAR…Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $50,000 · HealthChildren's…THREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES: $350,000 · Housing & ShelterHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $250,000 · InternationalFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC: $125,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$2,025,000Other$1,552,000Education$975,000Health$536,175Housing & Shelter$350,000International$250,000Community Improvement$125,000

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 budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $975,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $850,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTHREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES: $350,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $315,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetCROSSLINES MINISTRY INC: $312,000 over 3y, 85% of budgetHILLCREST MINISTRIES OF MIDAMERICA: $290,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER OF GRACE INC: $225,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetGLOBAL CARE FORCE: $171,175 over 3y, 21% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $160,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $100,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBAND OF ANGELS CORP: $70,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBASE ACADEMY OF MUSIC: $45,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetNAVARRE BEACH SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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…John W and Effie E Sp…Menorah Heritage Foun…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Junior League of Kans…Oppenstein Brothers F…Servant FoundationGeorge & Ada Ultch Me…The Curry Family Foun…Hall Family FoundationEdward & Kathryn Made…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Junior League of Kansas City Missouri · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Servant Foundation · George & Ada Ultch Memorial Fund · The Curry Family Foundation · Hall Family Foundation · Edward & Kathryn Mader 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 Mullinix Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mullinix Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 Mullinix Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mullinix Family 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.

    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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