How much did ASSISTS FOUNDATION grant in FY2017?

ASSISTS FOUNDATION reported 27 grants totaling $987,088 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is ASSISTS FOUNDATION based?

ASSISTS FOUNDATION is based in KS.

ASSISTS FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

ASSISTS FOUNDATION

The mission of assists is to help provide young people access to better lives.

$987k

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$105k

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

$10k–50k19 grants · $285k
$50k–250k8 grants · $592k

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

LAWRENCE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$105,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE$100,000
DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUN$82,088
BALLARD COMMUNITY SERVICES$80,000
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIA$75,000
CALLED TO GREATNESS$50,000
LAWRENCE PARKS & RECREATION$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KS CITY$35,000
LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER$25,000
THE WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$25,000
VAN GO INC$25,000
YOUNG LIFE DOUGLAS COUNTY$20,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE$15,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NE KS$15,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence Co

To empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.

Youth Development

North Central Kansas Housing

Community Improvement

Urban League of Kansas Inc

To facilitate economic self-reliance and improved quality of life for Urban League of Kansas clients through education, empowerment, and self-respect.

Human Services

Southeast Kansas Independent Living

Assist individuals with disabilities in learning to live independently; secure housing, transportation and financing for disabled customers; assist business in adhereing to the americans with disabilities act.

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Care Center of Kansas City

Swope ridge geriatric center is a not for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide a continuum of long term care services to our community. we are committed to delivering quality health care with compassion and caring for adult…

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Kansas Appleseed Center

We believe Kansans, working together, can build a state full of thriving, inclusive, and just communities. We're working for a future where:- All Kansans have the resources they need to support themselves and raise healthy families.- All…

Crime & Legal

Mercy Kansas Communities

As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

Health

Downtown Kansas City Civic Ventures

To improve the greater downtown and urban core of kansas city through educational and service programs, including providing coordinated social and community services to persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and lessen the…

Human Services

Kansas City University

Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.

Education

Lawrence Humane Society

The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care, and advocacy to homeless and abused animals, as well as resources for the people and pets in the douglas county, kansas community.

Animals

Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services

Cleveland University - Kansas City

To provide a strong, student-centered professional education with a focus in the areas of life sciences and health promotion through education, scholarship, and service.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawrence Community Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Women On the Move. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

11/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$522,088Education$130,000Human Services$100,000Youth Development$70,000Housing & Shelter$35,000Community Improvement$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

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.

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.

Douglas County Community FoundationKS33.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Douglas County Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · United Way of Douglas County Inc · The Shumaker Family Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Global Impact · Kansas Health Foundation · Servant Foundation · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc

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 organisation ASSISTS 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.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 262709610 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Assists Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Assists Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ASSISTS FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Assists Foundation?

More from the funding graph

ASSISTS FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Assists Foundation?

More from the funding graph