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ASSISTS FOUNDATION co KANSAS BASKETBALL OFFICE

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

$987k
Granted FY2017
27
Grants FY2017
2
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 27 grants below total $877,088, the rows itemized in this filing. The $987,088 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $110,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2017

  • $10k–50k19 grants · $285k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $592k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$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
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NE KS$15,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE$15,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEA: $10k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE: $100k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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2
Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc

To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises

Food & Nutrition
3
Wichitas Littlest Heroes

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…

Human Services
4
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
5
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
8
Kansas Land Trust Inc

To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.

Environment
9
Boys Club of Greater Kansas City

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.

Youth Development
10
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

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…

Health
11
Sunlight Children's Services Inc

To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.

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12
Community Action Inc

Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League; 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.
03the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BALLARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $80,000 · OtherBALLARD COMMUNITY SERVICESLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIA: $75,000 · OtherLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIAIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KS CITY: $35,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF KS CITYTHE WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25,000 · OtherTHE WILLOW DOMESTIC VIOLENCEYOUNG LIFE DOUGLAS COUNTY: $20,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE: $15,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE NE KS: $15,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF S CENTR: $15,000 · Other+5 more: $50,000 · Other+5 moreLawrence Schools Foundation: $105,000 · EducationLawrence Schools…VAN GO INC: $25,000 · EducationVAN GO INCFAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE…KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $10,000 · Human ServicesKANSAS CHILDRE…DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $82,088 · PhilanthropyDOUGLAS CO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GI…YOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOM…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterTOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN SCHOLASTIC CENTER: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$430,000Education$130,000Human Services$110,000Philanthropy$82,088Youth Development$70,000Housing & Shelter$35,000Community Improvement$10,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLawrence Schools Foundation: $105,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF LAWRENCE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetDOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $82,088 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LAWRENCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVAN GO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetURBAN SCHOLASTIC CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Douglas County Commun…Ethel & Raymond F Ric…The Shumaker Family F…Topeka Community Foun…Commerce Bancshares F…Greater Kansas City C…Midcontinent Foundati…Global ImpactKansas Health Foundat…Servant FoundationUnited Way of Douglas…United Way of Kaw Val…
Douglas County Community FoundationKS32.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization ASSISTS FOUNDATION co KANSAS BASKETBALL OFFICE funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from ASSISTS FOUNDATION co KANSAS BASKETBALL OFFICE. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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