Kansas · Private foundation
Blanche Bryden Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $61k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Blanche Bryden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $59k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $56k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $111k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $84k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $82k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $78k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $77k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $88k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washburn University Foundation | $220,830 | 9 | 0% |
| Sunflower Music Festival Inc | $75,000 | 8 | 13% |
| Stormont-Vail Foundation | $50,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Midland Care Connection Inc | $37,300 | 6 | 0% |
| North Topeka Arts District Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Topeka Lulac Multi-Purpose Senior Center Inc | $23,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Junior Achievement of Kansas Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Marian Clinic Inc | $17,740 | 4 | 1% |
| Sheltered Living Inc | $16,685 | 5 | 0% |
| Topeka Rescue Mission Inc | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Blanche Bryden Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Blanche Bryden Foundation
- How much does Blanche Bryden Foundation give?
- Blanche Bryden Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $61,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Blanche Bryden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Blanche Bryden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Washburn University Foundation ($221k), Sunflower Music Festival Inc ($75k), Stormont-Vail Foundation ($50k).
- Does Blanche Bryden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Blanche Bryden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Blanche Bryden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Topeka Community Foundation, United Way of Kaw Valley Inc, Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust.
- Where is Blanche Bryden Foundation based?
- Blanche Bryden Foundation is based in KS.
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