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Blanche Bryden Foundation at a glance

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Blanche Bryden Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$61k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$233kHealth$123kArts & Culture$121kHuman Services$118kHousing & Shelter$33kAnimals$23kInternational$20kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC$3,500
TOPEKA LULAC MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER$3,500
KANSAS SILENT FILM FESTIVAL INC$2,000
THE 2030 FOUNDATION OF TOPEKA INC$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%EAST TOPEKA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $3k → 14%EAST TOPEKA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $3k → 14%EAST TOPEKA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $3k → 14%EAST TOPEKA COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $3k → 14%EAST TOPEKA COUNCIL ON AGING: $3k → 14%LET'S HELP INC: $8k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION: $5k → 14%TOPEKA LULAC MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER: $7k → 14%TOPEKA LULAC MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 14%TOPEKA LULAC MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER: $4k → 14%TOPEKA LULAC SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 14%TOPEKA LULAC MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 14%TOPEKA LULAC SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 14%TOPEKA LULAC SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 14%TOPEKA LULAC MULTIPURPOSE SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 14%JAYHAWK AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $5k → 14%SHELTERED LIVING INC: $5k → 14%JAYHAWK AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $5k → 14%TOPEKA YOUTH PROJECT INC: $4k → 14%SHELTERED LIVING INC: $4k → 14%SHELTERED LIVING INC: $3k → 14%SHELTERED LIVING INC: $3k → 14%SHELTERED LIVING INC: $3k → 14%THE CONGREGATIONAL HOME FOUNDATION: $500 → 14%TOPEKA YOUTH PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%THE 2030 FOUNDATION OF TOPEKA INC: $2k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $12k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $8k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $6k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $5k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $4k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $2k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$655k · 29 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
12

Total granted

$655k
$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+12%

Still filing today

76%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WU
    WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $221k · revenue +262%
  • SM
    SUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +43%
  • SF
    STORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2023 · $50k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +38%
  • VB
    VALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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 Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
2
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
3
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
4
Topeka Collegiate School Inc

To prepare students for advanced education, successful careers and responsible citizenship through academic excellence and humanitarian ideals.

Education
5
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
6
South Central Community Foundation

To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
7
Interfaith Housing and Community Service

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…

Community Improvement
8
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
9
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
10
Dui Victims Center of Kansas Inc

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

Education
11
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center

To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.

Health
12
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Topeka Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 43 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $220,830 · EducationWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationMIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $37,300 · Human ServicesMIDLAND CARE CONNECT…TOPEKA LULAC MULTI-PURPOSE SENIOR CENTER INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesTOPEKA LULAC MULTI-P…SHELTERED LIVING INC: $16,685 · Human ServicesSHELTERED LIVING INCEast Topeka Council on Aging Inc: $13,500 · Human ServicesEast Topeka Council …LETS HELP INC: $12,585 · Human ServicesLETS HELP INCJAYHAWK AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesJAYHAWK AREA AGENCY …TOPEKA YOUTH PROJECT INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesTOPEKA YOUTH PROJECT…COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesSUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSUNFLOWER MUSIC F…NORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureNORTH TOPEKA ARTS…KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CHILDREN'S…+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureMARIAN CLINIC INC: $17,740 · OtherMARIAN CLINIC INCHEAVENLY VISIONS FOUNDATION INC: $13,122 · OtherHEAVENLY VISIONS FO…VALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC: $10,000 · OtherVALEO BEHAVIORAL HE…KANSAS SILENT FILM FESTIVAL: $5,750 · OtherHousing and Credit Counseling Inc: $5,500 · OtherTOPEKA CENTER FOR PEACE & JUCTICE: $5,500 · OtherEAST TOPEKA SENIOR CENTER: $5,500 · OtherPATHWAY FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KANSAS INC: $20,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA: $8,500 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…+11 more: $23,400 · Other+11 moreSTORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthSTORMONT-V…GRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC: $13,500 · HealthGRACEMED H…TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterCornerstone of Topeka Inc: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterHELPING HANDS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $13,000 · AnimalsSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL REFUGE SOCIETY: $10,000 · Animals
Education$230,830Human Services$129,570Arts & Culture$110,500Other$120,012Health$63,500Housing & Shelter$27,500Animals$23,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $220,830 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $75,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetSTORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $37,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INC: $26,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTOPEKA LULAC MULTI-PURPOSE SENIOR CENTER INC: $23,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KANSAS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMARIAN CLINIC INC: $17,740 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSHELTERED LIVING INC: $16,685 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEast Topeka Council on Aging Inc: $13,500 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHELPING HANDS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLETS HELP INC: $12,585 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCornerstone of Topeka Inc: $12,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJAYHAWK AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL REFUGE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOPEKA YOUTH PROJECT INC: $9,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHousing and Credit Counseling Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL TECHNOLOGIES INC: $3,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAPPER FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOPEKA FESTIVAL SINGERS INC: $2,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budget2030 Foundation of Topeka Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Congregational Home Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Topeka Community Foun…United Way of Kaw Val…Lewis Humphreys Chari…Wmr Family Foundation…Stormont-Vail Foundat…One Gas Foundation IncSunflower Foundation …Schwartz FoundationKansas Health Foundat…Bnsf Railway Foundati…Global ImpactMark & Bette Morris F…
Topeka Community FoundationKS53.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Blanche Bryden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blanche Bryden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Blanche Bryden Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Blanche Bryden 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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