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Benjamin Quapaw Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Religion$8kHuman Services$3kPhilanthropy$1kHealth$639Community Improvement$415Public Benefit$403Education$250Environment$226Other$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$215
Median grant
2
States reached
$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kechi United Methodist Church$1,200
Menocause$500
Old School Development FDT$215
Individual grant recipient$150
AFP Kansas Heartland Chapter$103
Wreaths Across America$100
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%Christian Child Care Services: $250 → 32%Menocause: $500 → 9%McPherson College: $50 → 10%Burdick United Methodist Church: $100 → 11%Kansas Honor Flight: $200 → 15%Wine About Cancer: $170 → 16%Emporia Community Foundation: $1k → 16%Kansas State 4-H: $100 → 20%Wreaths Across America: $100 → 16%Menocause: $500 → 9%Northfield School of the Liberal Ar: $100 → 16%Emporia Presbyterian Church: $50 → 16%Menocause: $500 → 9%Kechi United Methodist Church: $1k → 16%Menocause: $500 → 9%Kechi United Methodist Church: $1k → 16%Menocause: $500 → 9%Kechi United Methodist Church: $1k → 16%Menocause: $500 → 9%Kechi United Methodist Church: $1k → 16%Dyck Arboretum of the Plains: $76 → 9%Kechi United Methodist Church: $1k → 16%Kechi United Methodist Church: $1k → 16%Sunnydale Community Center: $100 → 16%Pack 404 Cub Scouts: $100 → 16%Womens Initiative Network: $250 → 16%The Salvation Army: $100 → 16%The Arc of Sedgwick County: $639 → 16%Wichita Indian United Methodist Church: $250 → 16%Botanica: $75 → 16%Botanica: $75 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$11k · 4 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$11k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+45%

Still filing today

25%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $353 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • KU
    Kechi United Methodist Church
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k
  • M
    Menocause
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3k
  • OS
    Old School Development FDT
    2× · 2024–2025 · $415

Funded once

  • AI
    AbilityPoint Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $639 · revenue +21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $250
  • WI
    Wichita Indian United Methodist Church
    one grant, 2020 · $250

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute

Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…

Arts & Culture
2
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
4
Honolulu Museum of Art

To create relevant and transformative experiences through the study, preservation, presentation and creation of art.

Arts & Culture
5
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
6
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
7
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
8
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
9
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
10
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
11
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcpherson College and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Kechi United Methodist Church — $7,300 · OtherKechi United Methodist ChurchMenocause — $3,000 · OtherMenocauseAbilityPoint Inc — $639 · Other+14 more — $2,214 · Other+14 moreEmporia Community Foundation — $1,000 · PhilanthropyKANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC — $200 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America — $100 · Public BenefitUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $100 · EducationNORTHFIELD SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS — $100 · EducationMCPHERSON COLLEGE — $50 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $180 · Arts & CultureBOTANICA INC — $150 · Environment
Other$13,153Philanthropy$1,000Public Benefit$300Education$250Arts & Culture$180Environment$150

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEmporia Community Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAbilityPoint Inc — $639 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC — $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOTANICA INC — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS — $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Emporia Community Foundation
  • Who funds AbilityPoint Inc
  • Who funds KANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
  • Who funds BOTANICA INC
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS
  • Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE

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.

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Benjamin Quapaw 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Benjamin Quapaw Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Benjamin Quapaw Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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