Kansas · Private foundation
Aim 5 Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 28
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Aim 5 Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k 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 | 42 | $2.4M | 69% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $960k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.5M | 53% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $977k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $2.7M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $861k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $1.3M | 48% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $1.6M | 46% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeline Children's Services Inc | $1,900,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Young Life | $1,530,882 | 9 | 0% |
| Go Ministries Inc | $675,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Jones Project Inc | $500,000 | 3 | 96% |
| Manhattan Christian College Inc | $340,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Mission Church of Topeka Inc | $310,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | $302,438 | 4 | 1% |
| Topeka Collegiate School Inc | $296,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Christian Alliance for Orphans | $250,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lifeline Children's Services Inc | $1,900,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Young Life | $1,530,882 | 9 | 0% |
| Go Ministries Inc | $675,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Jones Project Inc | $500,000 | 3 | 96% |
| Manhattan Christian College Inc | $340,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Mission Church of Topeka Inc | $310,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | $302,438 | 4 | 1% |
| Topeka Collegiate School Inc | $296,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Christian Alliance for Orphans | $250,000 | 3 | 5% |
| Alliance for Choice in Education | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Folds of Honor Foundation | $213,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Kinsmen Initiative | $157,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The V Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Hayden High School | $140,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Trash Mountain Project Inc | $101,079 | 1 | 7% |
| Downtown Topeka Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| EQUIP Leadership Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Alleyway Recovery Church | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rolling Hills Christian Church Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Woolly Farms Foundation | $95,000 | 3 | 13% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Topeka | $79,358 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas State University Foundation | $77,974 | 1 | 0% |
| Build a Better US | $75,000 | 3 | 46% |
| Pure & Faultless | $61,432 | 2 | n/a |
| The Global Orphan Project Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Antioch Family Life Center Inc | $54,566 | 2 | n/a |
| Grace Community Church | $53,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Compassion Strategies Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 27% |
| Doxazo Ministries Inc | $45,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Greater Topeka Partnership Inc | $44,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Capital City Church | $40,860 | 1 | n/a |
| Create Campaign Inc | $31,360 | 1 | 5% |
| Nations of Coaches Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Bridge | $22,150 | 3 | 1% |
| Student Mobilization Inc | $21,800 | 3 | n/a |
| Project 2 Restore Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Washburn University Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| You Can Begin Again Inc | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Peace Preparatory Academy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The 2030 Club of Topeka Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 19% |
| Top City Promise Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Kansas State University | $7,500 | 3 | n/a |
| Project Topeka Food Drive | $6,682 | 1 | 2% |
| Sterling College | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| PastorServe Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rooted Community Church | $4,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Baker University | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Breakthrough House Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bethel College | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Countryside Christian Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Meals on Wheels Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Free City Church | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Dad Tired | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Women Empowerment Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Beyond Bedtime Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Aim 5 Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Topeka Community Foundation · Greater Horizons · Kansas Independent College Association · The Pete Henry Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Aim 5 Foundation
- How much does Aim 5 Foundation give?
- Aim 5 Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $2,354,575 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Aim 5 Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (28%), Human Services (21%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are Aim 5 Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Lifeline Children's Services Inc ($1.9M), Young Life ($1.5M), Go Ministries Inc ($675k).
- Does Aim 5 Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Aim 5 Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Aim 5 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Topeka Community Foundation, Greater Horizons, Kansas Independent College Association.
- Where is Aim 5 Foundation based?
- Aim 5 Foundation is based in KS.
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