· Private foundation
Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k79 grants · $312k
- $10k–50k67 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k35 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+8 grants · $7.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST LUKE'S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTEMURIEL I KAUFFMAN WOMEN'S HEART CTR | $3,333,333 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET | $1,000,000 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET | $750,000 |
| LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY | $550,000 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $500,000 |
| ARTSKC REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL | $350,000 |
| KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY | $300,000 |
| KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC | $255,000 |
| WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES | $210,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $170,000 |
| PAC HOLDING INC | $155,000 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $153,781 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $153,759 |
| THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART | $150,000 |
| KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $144,469 |
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 (FY21–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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 +39% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
116 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 34 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k 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
- KCKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS4× · 2021–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +105%
- KCKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +65%
- LOLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +40%
Funded once
- UCUMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCEone grant, 2021 · $163k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $100k
- PLPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANAone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +11%
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.
Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…
To bring the best of the performing arts to the Kansas City community.
Connecting our community through live arts experiences that entertain, inspire, and engage
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.
Ballet wichita connects, inspires and enriches dancers, audiences, and community through dance, education and performance excellence.
Kmac is louisvilles premier contemporary art museum in downtown louisville on museum row. through exhibitions, education, and outreach, kmac works to connect people to art and creative practice.
Quality hill playhouse is dedicated to excellence in the live performance of works from musical theatre and the american songbook, employing the finest local talent, and contributing to kansas city's cultural and economic landscape.
Kpc provides a gathering place where people come together to express themselves creatively, exchange ideas, share culture and connect with one another
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
The mission of the lees summit symphony orchestra is to provide excellent musical experiences that enhance the quality of life for the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the 1980 Miracle On Ice Hockey Team Corp. 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 27 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 214 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds PAC HOLDING INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds UNICORN THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD ARTS ↗
- Who funds Arts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES ↗
- Who funds KEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COTERIE INC ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL DEBUTANTE BALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA ↗
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: 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
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 Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family 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.
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.
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