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Baughman Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $387k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $402k
- $250k+1 grant · $278k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCCC DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $277,500 |
| USD 480 | $209,204 |
| Individual grant recipient | $127,500 |
| PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| KS INDEPENDENT COLLEGE FUND | $45,000 |
| KANZA SOCIETY INC | $40,000 |
| SMOKEY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION | $35,000 |
| BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT | $30,000 |
| BABE RUTH BASEBALL ASSOCIATION OF L | $25,000 |
| USD 483 | $20,250 |
| KSDS INC | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| MOSAIC | $20,000 |
| HEARTSPRING | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $288k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% 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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- KSKANZA Society Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $280k · revenue +49%
- KIKansas Independent College Association8× · 2017–2024 · $260k · revenue ×16
- SHSMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP8× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- MFMAAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +6% · 39% of their budget
- LSLIBERAL SEWARD CO COMMUNICATION CENone grant, 2019 · $40k
- SCSEWARD COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICEone grant, 2021 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
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…
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League and the most unlike its peers is Bee Jay's Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 30. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 83 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 STEPPING STONE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANZA Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Kansas Independent College Association ↗
- Who funds SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP ↗
- Who funds PANHANDLE STATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BAKER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds BEE JAY'S INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BRENT ELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds City on a Hill Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MAAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds SEWARD COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRIDE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Southwest Medical Center ↗
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: Cooper Clark Foundation · Western Kansas Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Rundell Charitable Foundation Trust · SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY · Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Berry Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Finnup Foundation
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 Baughman 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.
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.
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