Missouri · Private foundation
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $12M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 189
- Grants FY2024
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,333,333
- Organizations funded a year
- 112 to 113
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $278M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 128 | $12M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 112 | $10M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 113 | $9.5M | 39% |
| FY2021 | 113 | $8.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts | $8,993,895 | 4 | 24% |
| Kansas City Ballet Association | $6,842,443 | 4 | 17% |
| Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc | $4,302,500 | 4 | 24% |
| Kansas City Symphony | $1,975,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City | $1,480,000 | 4 | 17% |
| Kansas City Repertory Theatre Inc | $1,105,000 | 4 | 5% |
| PAC Holding Inc | $545,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Kansas City Girls Preparatory Academy | $450,000 | 4 | 3% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $385,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Unicorn Theatre | $275,000 | 4 | 13% |
Show all 160 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 51 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 149 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Francis Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · The H & R Block Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · The Sosland Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Copaken Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
How this is measured
Compare Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation
- How much does Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation give?
- Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation reported 189 grants totaling $12,224,728 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 112 and 113 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (53%), Health (7%), Education (2%).
- Who are Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts ($9.0M), Kansas City Ballet Association ($6.8M), Lyric Opera of Kansas City Inc ($4.3M).
- Does Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Francis Family Foundation, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee.
- Where is Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation based?
- Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation is based in MO.
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