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ASSISTS FOUNDATION co KANSAS BASKETBALL OFFICE
The mission of assists is to help provide young people access to better lives.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $877,088 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $987,088 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $110,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2017
- $10k–50k19 grants · $285k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $592k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KS CITY | $35,000 |
| VAN GO INC | $25,000 |
| THE WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $25,000 |
| LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER | $25,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE DOUGLAS COUNTY | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF S CENTR | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
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.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises
Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
The organization promotes the personal development of boys and girls ages 5-18, with special concern for the disadvantaged by providing services that build self-esteem, values and skills during critical periods of growth.
Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…
To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League and the most unlike its peers is Urban Scholastic Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 Lawrence Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOLASTIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds HEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS 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: Douglas County Community Foundation · Ethel & Raymond F Rice Foundation · The Shumaker Family Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Midcontinent Foundation · Global Impact · Kansas Health Foundation · Servant Foundation · United Way of Douglas County Inc · 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 organization ASSISTS FOUNDATION co KANSAS BASKETBALL OFFICE 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.