· Private foundation
Arthur M & Ethel L Hylton Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Morris County Historical Society | $5,000 |
| Friends of Kaw Heritage | $3,500 |
| Live Well Morris County | $2,500 |
| City of Council Grove | $2,500 |
| Morris County Hospital Foundation | $2,100 |
| Morris County Care & Share | $2,100 |
| Council Grove Life Center | $2,100 |
| Council Grove Community Theatre | $2,000 |
| Community Mentoring Program | $1,500 |
| Council Grove Arts Council | $1,500 |
| Council Grove Public Library | $1,250 |
| Morris County 4-H | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Historic Preservation Corporation | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -24% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CGCouncil Grove Life Center Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $33k · revenue +20%
- COCity of Council Grove Riverwalk Committee5× · 2019–2023 · $32k
- MCMORRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue -74%
Funded once
- VOVoices of the Wind Peopleone grant, 2023 · $8k
- CGCouncil Grove Youth Wrestlingone grant, 2024 · $4k
- CGCouncil Grove Riverwalk Park Committeeone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
Public charity
To become a center for ranching heritage in the Flint Hills.
To provide funding to Scott County Hospital, Scott City, Kansas through independent fundraising activities.
To restore and preserve historical structures and memorabilia
To serve Council Grove and the surrounding areas by creating an endowment dedicated to enriching the quality of life for present and future generations.
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
Preservation study and collection of historical items
To combat economic and physical deterioration of Plains KS through charitable social welfare activities and economic development projects that encourage job development and population stability.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Council Grove Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MORRIS COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC PRESERVATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Building Blocks Community Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds WHITE MEMORIAL CAMP MANAGEMENT GROUP ↗
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: Oscar & Ina Nystrom Foundation · Bill B Young Foundation · John E Trembly Foundation · Council Grove Area Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Arthur M & Ethel L Hylton Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arthur M & Ethel L Hylton Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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