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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$835k
Granted FY2024still arriving
212
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01

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.

02FY2024 · 212 grants

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
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

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.

area typical 10%Starfish Project: $5k → 5%Numana Inc: $5k → 8%Melven O Kuder Senior Center Assoc: $5k → 10%Real Men Real Leaders: $3k → 12%Big Lakes Developmental Center: $5k → 20%Big Lakes Developmental Center Inc: $5k → 20%TFI Family Services: $3k → 16%Big Lakes Developmental Center: $5k → 20%Big Lakes Developmental Center Inc: $5k → 20%Greater Wichita YMCA: $5k → 16%YMCA of Wichita: $5k → 16%Wichita Women's Initiative Network: $3k → 16%Finney County Committee on Aging: $672 → 12%Envision Foundation: $5k → 16%Caney Valley Agape Network Inc: $5k → 15%Envision Foundation: $5k → 16%Caney Valley Agape Network Inc: $5k → 15%Caney Valley Agape Network Inc: $5k → 15%Caney Valley Agape Network Inc: $4k → 15%E Topeka Council on Aging: $5k → 14%American Baptist Estates: $5k → 16%Race Against Breast Cancer: $10k → 14%Kansas Children Service League: $20k → 14%The Treehouse: $5k → 16%The Treehouse: $1k → 16%Rainbows United Inc: $4k → 16%Topeka LULAC Senior Center: $4k → 14%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.

04

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.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.7M · 219 repeat orgs$982k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

219
286

Total granted

$2.7M
$801k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+23%

Still filing today

32%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

  • KD
    KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +51%
  • FH
    FLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $80k · revenue +98%
  • KC
    KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $80k · revenue +257%

Funded once

  • CA
    ChildCare Aware
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • EP
    EXPLORATION PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +95%
  • HK
    HUMANITIES KANSAS INC
    one 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.

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
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
2
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

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

Health
3
Labette County Medical Center

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

Health
4
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
5
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
6
High Plains Mental Health Center Endowment Association Inc

Ensure the availability of quality mental health services to consumers of high plains mental health center

Education
7
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

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.

8
Community Health Care Inc

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.

9
The Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center Inc

To advance the health of the douglas county community through comprehensive behavioral health services responsive to evolving needs and changing environments.

Health
10
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

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…

Health
11
Heartland Medical Clinic Inc

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…

Health
12
Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional Association Ne…Kansas Advocacy & Professio…Member-Based Social ClubsCounty Agricultural Organiz…School District Education F…Child Protection and Family…University Support Organiza…Regional Community ServicesLow-Income Senior HousingPerforming Arts Organizatio…Christian K-12 SchoolsEmergency Food & Basic Assi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%4%<5yr12%8%5–10yr17%13%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr15%26%35–55yr22%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr17%12%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr22%30%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/138
the rest of the field
10%
1,066/10,533

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.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/125
Grantees still filing
90/125
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

KU Endowment — $205,000 · OtherKU EndowmentAmerican Red Cross — $82,500 · OtherAmerican Red CrossChildCare Aware — $50,000 · OtherAmerican Red Cross Topeka — $50,000 · OtherKANSAS FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION — $60,500 · Other+117 more — $867,750 · Other+117 moreKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $210,000 · HealthKANSAS DENTAL CHARI…CENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC — $60,000 · HealthCENTRAL PLAINS HEAL…+28 more — $226,710 · Health+28 moreUNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC — $250,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …UNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropySALINA AREA UN…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyBenedictine College — $25,000 · EducationBenedictin…KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationKANSAS WES…BAKER UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationBAKER UNIV…BETHEL COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationBETHEL COL…CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC — $14,570 · EducationCHILDREN F…INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $14,014 · EducationFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationSALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · EducationHESSTON COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationGARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION — $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC — $10,000 · Education+10 more — $59,000 · Education+10 moreFLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION — $80,000 · Arts & CultureFLINT HIL…KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CH…EXPLORATION PLACE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORATI…HUMANITIES KANSAS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIE…BIG LAKES DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE — $20,000 · Human ServicesCANEY VALLEY AGAPE NETWORK INC — $19,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE RACE AGAINST BREAST CANCER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesENVISION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE TREEHOUSE INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesMelven O Kuder Senior Center Association — $5,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN BAPTIST ESTATES INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesEast Topeka Council on Aging Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesStarfish Project Foundation — $5,000 · Human ServicesNUMANA INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SEDGWICK COUNTY — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on the Run of the Flint Hills — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,315,750Health$496,710Philanthropy$380,000Education$267,584Arts & Culture$245,000Human Services$120,000Youth Development$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC — $250,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $210,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $80,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC — $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION — $60,500 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEXPLORATION PLACE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC — $43,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANITIES KANSAS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC — $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBenedictine College — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBAKER UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETHEL COLLEGE — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CASA ASSOCIATION INC — $20,771 over 1y, 14% of budgetBIG LAKES DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANEY VALLEY AGAPE NETWORK INC — $19,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC — $14,570 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetINDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $14,014 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetPrairie View Inc — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH LAYTON CENTER INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIESTAR HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREELEY COUNTY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDANCE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Clinic Inc — $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RACE AGAINST BREAST CANCER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COUNSELING & CONSULTATION — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetATCHISON COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKONZA PRAIRIE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHESSTON COLLEGE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVISION FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCompass Behavioral Health — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 5y, 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.

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.

Kansas Health FoundationKS108.6× affinity55 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    44report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

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    How do I get to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc 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 584 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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