Morgan Family Legacy Foundation
Leawood, KS · EIN 47-5638410. Reported 67 grants totalling $1,235,000 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Morgan Family Legacy Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,000 and $25,000; the smallest was $4,000 and the largest $80,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Temple Congregation B'nai Jehudah | Overland Park, KS | $268,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City | Overland Park, KS | $155,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jewish Family Services | Overland Park, KS | $145,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Kent Denver Fund | Englewood, CO | $92,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Colorado - Cu Arts & Entreprenuership | Boulder, CO | $79,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Judaism Your Way | Denver, CO | $57,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Brandeis University | Waltham, MA | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Colorado Photographic Arts Center | Denver, CO | $49,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Cancer League of Colorado | Denver, CO | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Starlight Theatre Association of Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Torah Learning Center | Overland Park, KS | $35,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Plastic Ocean Project | Wilmington, NC | $25,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Barstow School | Kansas City, MO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Brandeis | Waltham, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Denver Art Museum | Denver, CO | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Children's Mercy Hospital | Kansas City, MO | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Hope Haven Rwanda | Sedalia, CO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network | Manhattan Beach, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Breakthrough at Kent Denver | Englewood, CO | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Friend of the Ccar | New York, NY | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jewish Community Relations Bureauamerican Jewish Committee | Leawood, KS | $10,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Kansas City Royals Foundation | Kansas City, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Kansas Hillel | Lawrence, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Nebraska Medical Center | Omaha, NE | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chabad Torah Learning Center | Overland Park, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mussar Institute | Boynton Beach, FL | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Village Shalom | Overland Park, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Water Is Life | Phoenix, AZ | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Battle Within | Olathe, KS | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
18 of 29 (62%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 81%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- The Temple Congregation B'nai Jehudah
SUPPORT RELIGIOUS MISSION OF SYNAGOGUE - Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City
PROVIDE ASSISTANCE, SAFETY-NET, EDUCATION FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES - Jewish Family Services
PROVIDE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, LIFE CRISIS ASSISTANCE - Kent Denver Fund
TO SUPPORT THE STUDENTS, TEACHERS, COACHES, ADVISORS AND PROGRAMS OF THE COLLEGE-PREPARATORY SCHOOL - Starlight Theatre Association of Kansas City
TO CONNECT OUR COMMUNITY THROUGH LIVE ARTS EXPERIENCES THAT ENTERTAIN, INSPIRE AND ENGAGE.TO CONNECT JEWISH STUDENTS TO EACH OTHER, TO INSPIRE AND EQUIP THE NEXT GENERATION OF JEWISH LEADERS AND TO BUILD A THRIVING JEWISH COMMUNITY ON CAMPUS - University of Colorado - Cu Arts & Entreprenuership
TO CONNECT, ELEVATE AND GROW INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL RESOURCES TO INSPIRE AND TURN IDEAS TO IMPACT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $300,000 | $13,500 |
| 2022 | 19 | $330,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 16 | $300,000 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 16 | $305,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 52% of this one's giving went to organizations in Kansas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kansas.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Morgan Family Legacy Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 11709 Roe Ave Suite D138, Leawood, KS, 66211. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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