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Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
189
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$32MHealth$4.1MEducation$972kRecreation & Sports$775kCommunity Improvement$645kEnvironment$501kHuman Services$330kReligion$132kOther$0
02FY2024 · 189 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k79 grants · $312k
  • $10k–50k67 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k35 grants · $3.6M
  • $250k+8 grants · $7.0M
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$278M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $4k → 15%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 17%LIFE UNLIMITED: $20k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED: $5k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED: $5k → 8%SAFEHOME: $5k → 5%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $500 → 15%LIFE UNLIMITED: $5k → 15%THE SOUL OF SANTA DO GOOD FOUNDATION: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
MD
KS
TN
NC
MS
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$39M · 116 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
61

Total granted

$39M
$727k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+12%

Still filing today

78%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $448k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • KC
    KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    4× · 2021–2024 · $9.0M · revenue +105%
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $6.8M · revenue +65%
  • LO
    LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • UC
    UMKC CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND DANCE
    one grant, 2021 · $163k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • PL
    PHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +11%
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
Kansas City Public Theatre

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…

Arts & Culture
2
Harriman-Jewell Series

To bring the best of the performing arts to the Kansas City community.

Arts & Culture
3
Starlight Theatre Association of Kansas City Inc

Connecting our community through live arts experiences that entertain, inspire, and engage

Arts & Culture
4
Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City

To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.

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6
Opera Omaha Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
7
Ballet Wichita Inc

Ballet wichita connects, inspires and enriches dancers, audiences, and community through dance, education and performance excellence.

Arts & Culture
8
Kmac Museum

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.

Arts & Culture
9
Quality Hill Productions

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Kirkland Center of the Performing Arts Dba Kirkland Performance Center

Kpc provides a gathering place where people come together to express themselves creatively, exchange ideas, share culture and connect with one another

Arts & Culture
11
Kansas City Country Club

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…

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12
Lee's Summit Symphony Orchestra

The mission of the lees summit symphony orchestra is to provide excellent musical experiences that enhance the quality of life for the community.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Young Audiences Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

154 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. 154 of the 214 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
153/154
Grantees still filing
109/154
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $8,993,895 · Arts & CultureKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTSKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $6,842,443 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATIONLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $4,302,500 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INCKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $1,975,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY SYMPHONYMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1,480,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $1,105,000 · Arts & Culture+65 more: $3,526,700 · Arts & Culture+65 moreST LUKE'S MID AMERICA HEART INSTITUTEMURIEL I KAUFFMAN WOMEN'S HEART CTR: $3,659,912 · OtherST LUKE'S MID AMERICA HEART…MCMASTER UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · OtherMCMASTER UNIVERSITYWILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE HARRIMAN-JEWELL SERIES: $926,000 · OtherWILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE HARR…THE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $728,908 · OtherTHE NELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF…Individual grant recipient: $652,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipientKANSAS CITY STARLIGHT THEATRE: $395,000 · Other+97 more: $2,382,155 · Other+97 moreKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $450,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $258,250 · EducationPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA: $100,000 · EducationACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS: $40,700 · EducationPARK UNIVERSITY: $35,000 · Education+7 more: $105,550 · EducationPAC HOLDING INC: $545,000 · Community ImprovementNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $385,000 · Environment+2 more: $12,150 · EnvironmentCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $265,000 · Recreation & SportsKANSAS CITY SLUGGERS BASEBALL INC: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $115,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $30,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical Center: $25,000 · HealthWelcome House Inc: $20,000 · HealthHELPHOPELIVE INC: $20,000 · HealthPARKINSONS EXERCISE AND WELLNESS CENTER: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $13,125 · Health
Arts & Culture$28,225,538Other$9,744,725Education$989,500Community Improvement$545,000Environment$397,150Recreation & Sports$295,000Health$238,125

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $8,993,895 over 4y, 24% of budgetKANSAS CITY BALLET ASSOCIATION: $6,842,443 over 4y, 17% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $4,302,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetKANSAS CITY SYMPHONY: $1,975,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $1,480,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC: $1,105,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetPAC HOLDING INC: $545,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetKANSAS CITY GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY: $450,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $385,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNICORN THEATRE: $275,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $265,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE: $258,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $225,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $220,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetENGLEWOOD ARTS: $220,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetArts Engagement Foundation of Kansas City: $185,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHAMBER MUSIC: $160,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES: $150,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetKEMPER MUSEUM OPERATING FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY CHORALE: $125,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetMATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER: $115,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA: $115,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY YOUNG AUDIENCES INC: $107,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetTHE COTERIE INC: $106,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetPOWELL GARDENS INC: $103,600 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPHALEN LEADERSHIP ACADEMY - INDIANA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $87,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSpire Chamber Ensemble: $82,250 over 4y, 23% of budgetKANSAS CITY FRIENDS OF ALVIN AILEY: $80,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetMUSICAL THEATER HERITAGE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CULTURE HOUSE INC: $80,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOWEN COX DANCE GROUP: $65,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $64,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKC FRINGE FESTIVAL INC: $55,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetHEARTLAND MENS CHORUS: $55,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $55,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $55,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetBLACK REPERTORY THEATRE OF KANSAS CITY: $52,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMid-America Arts Alliance: $50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPalm Springs International Piano Competition: $50,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetART AS MENTORSHIP INC: $47,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetKANSAS CITY ACTORS THEATRE INC: $45,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $42,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACADEMY FOR INTEGRATED ARTS: $40,700 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNONPROFIT CONNECT NETWORK LEARN GROW: $40,000 over 4y, 0.9% 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 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 MATTIE RHODES MEMORIAL SOCIETY D/B/A MATTIE RHODES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY JAZZ ORCHESTRA ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

The Francis Family Fo…Greater Kansas City C…Richard J Stern Found…The H & R Block Found…Jewish Community Foun…Metropolitan Arts Cou…Ewing Marion Kauffman…The Sunderland Founda…The Sosland FoundationR a Long Foundation 6…Copaken Family Founda…William T Kemper Foun…
The Francis Family FoundationMO131.1× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Muriel McBrien Kauffman 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 214 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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