Missouri · Private foundation
The Lordi Marker Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $984k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 39
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Lordi Marker Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $984k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $488k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $1.4M | 3% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $441k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $390k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $1.4M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $352k | 3% |
| FY2018 | 37 | $361k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Prairie Foundation | $1,850,000 | 9 | 28% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $275,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $227,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $212,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Powell Gardens Inc | $169,250 | 9 | 1% |
| Westminster College | $92,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Wayside Waifs Inc | $89,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The Culture House Inc | $85,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Grassland Heritage Foundation | $78,500 | 9 | 22% |
| Public Television 19 Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 33 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lordi Marker Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Arvin Gottlieb Charitable Foundation 10015600 · J B Reynolds Foundation · Edward & Kathryn Mader Foundation · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund
How this is measured
Compare The Lordi Marker Family Foundation with peer funders
About The Lordi Marker Family Foundation
- How much does The Lordi Marker Family Foundation give?
- The Lordi Marker Family Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $983,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 39 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Lordi Marker Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (58%), Arts & Culture (7%), Food & Nutrition (5%).
- Who are The Lordi Marker Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Missouri Prairie Foundation ($1.9M), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($275k), Harvesters - the Community Food Network ($228k).
- Does The Lordi Marker Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lordi Marker Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lordi Marker Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation, The Francis Family Foundation.
- Where is The Lordi Marker Family Foundation based?
- The Lordi Marker Family Foundation is based in MO.
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