· Private foundation
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k204 grants · $490k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KU Endowment | $100,000 |
| United Way of Kaw Valley | $50,000 |
| Kansas Children's Discovery Center | $50,000 |
| Kansas Dental Charitable Foundation | $40,000 |
| Kansas Dental Charitable Foundation | $40,000 |
| American Red Cross | $25,000 |
| United Way of the Plains | $20,000 |
| Central Plains Health Care Partners | $20,000 |
| Kansas Fairgrounds Foundation | $7,000 |
| Hesston College | $5,000 |
| Genesis Family Health Center | $5,000 |
| KU Endowment | $5,000 |
| Lawrence Habitat for Humanity | $5,000 |
| Washburn University Foundation | $5,000 |
| Caney Valley Agape Network Inc | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +59% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
219 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2024, 87 since wound down; 78 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
- KDKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +51%
- FHFLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +98%
- KCKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC2× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +257%
Funded once
- CAChildCare Awareone grant, 2020 · $50k
- EPEXPLORATION PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +95%
- HKHUMANITIES KANSAS INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +23%
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.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
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.
To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.
Ensure the availability of quality mental health services to consumers of high plains mental health center
The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.
Community health care provides the communities we serve with excellence in patient-centered medical, dental, and behavioral health care that is compassionate, affordable, and accessible.
To advance the health of the douglas county community through comprehensive behavioral health services responsive to evolving needs and changing environments.
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…
Heartland offers high-quality, affordable, behavior ally-enhanced primary care to all community members regardless of income or insurance status. heartland is dedicated to practicing holistic, integrated health care in a model that focuses…
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Journey to Recover Inc of Butler County. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
125 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. 125 of the 584 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds FLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds VALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BAKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CASA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG LAKES DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CANEY VALLEY AGAPE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Prairie View Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH LAYTON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
- Who funds FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Kansas Health Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Wichita Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Topeka Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Belin 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 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc 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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