· Private foundation
The Lordi Marker Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $70,000 |
| MISSOURI PRAIRIE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $32,500 |
| ENGLEWOOD ARTS | $25,000 |
| KANSAS CITY BALLET | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PUBLIC TELEVISION | $25,000 |
| HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| GLOBAL BIRTHING HOME FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WAYSIDE WAIFS | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| GRASSLAND HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
43 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- MPMissouri Prairie Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +177% · 28% of their budget
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +62%- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK8× · 2017–2024 · $203k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- EAENGLEWOOD ARTSone grant, 2023 · $25k
- ACARTS COUNCIL OF KCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- LSLECOM STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.
The heartland conservation alliance works with partners to protect, connect, and restore the blue river watershed and its urban greenspaces for the benefit and enjoyment of all.
Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harvesters - the Community Food Network and the most unlike its peers is Grassland Heritage Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 39 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 60 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
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 Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WAYSIDE WAIFS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CULTURE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL BIRTHING HOME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRASSLAND HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS SPCA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN BLUEBIRD SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ENGLEWOOD ARTS ↗
- Who funds DEEP ROOTS KC INC ↗
- Who funds SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ASSOCIATION FOR CULTURAL EQUITY INC ↗
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: 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
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 The Lordi Marker 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.