· Private foundation
Blanche Bryden Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $22,000 |
| SUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC | $10,000 |
| NOTO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT | $7,000 |
| MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC | $6,300 |
| JAYHAWK AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC | $5,000 |
| TOPEKA LULAC MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER | $3,500 |
| GRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC | $3,500 |
| KANSAS SILENT FILM FESTIVAL INC | $2,000 |
| THE 2030 FOUNDATION OF TOPEKA INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WUWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +262%
- SMSUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +10%
- SFSTORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- VBVALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
- AFALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +38%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
To prepare students for advanced education, successful careers and responsible citizenship through academic excellence and humanitarian ideals.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To assist low-income homeowners of south central kansas to repair/rehabilitate their homes; to assist qualified low-income residents of south central kansas to purchase homes or to build low-cost homes for these residents; and to provide…
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Reduce the impact an impaired driving crash has on victims, survivors and their families, and increase awareness of the traumatic human consequences of the choice to drive impaired
To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Topeka Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Second Chance Animal Refuge Society. 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 42 years old; the field is 27. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 43 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 WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds STORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA LULAC MULTI-PURPOSE SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERED LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds East Topeka Council on Aging Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LETS HELP INC ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone of Topeka Inc ↗
- Who funds JAYHAWK AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL REFUGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA CENTER FOR PEACE & JUCTICE ↗
- Who funds Housing and Credit Counseling Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL TECHNOLOGIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA FESTIVAL SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds 2030 Foundation of Topeka 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: Topeka Community Foundation · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · Wmr Family Foundation 045351-000 Co Wilmington Trust Company · Stormont-Vail Foundation · One Gas Foundation Inc · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Schwartz Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Global Impact · Mark & Bette Morris Family 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 Blanche Bryden 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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