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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 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, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHealth$1.1MPhilanthropy$395kArts & Culture$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$140kHuman Services$126kYouth Development$117kFood & Nutrition$62kOther$0
02FY2024 · 212 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Bread of Life$5,000
Kansas Wesleyan University$5,000
United Way of Reno County$5,000
Hesston College$5,000
Salina Area United Way$5,000
Jewell County Strong Inc$5,000
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 (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 its 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 Inc: $5k → 20%Big Lakes Developmental Center: $5k → 20%TFI Family Services: $3k → 16%Big Lakes Developmental Center Inc: $5k → 20%Greater Wichita YMCA: $5k → 16%Big Lakes Developmental Center: $5k → 20%YMCA of Wichita: $5k → 16%Wichita Women's Initiative Network: $3k → 16%Finney County Committee on Aging: $672 → 12%Envision Foundation: $5k → 16%Envision Foundation: $5k → 16%Caney Valley Agape Network Inc: $5k → 15%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
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

+52%
+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
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

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

Funded once

  • EP
    EXPLORATION PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +95%
  • CA
    ChildCare Aware
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • HK
    HUMANITIES KANSAS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +23%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas; 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.
05the grantee network

125 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. 125 of the 584 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
124/125
Grantees still filing
90/125
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KU Endowment: $205,000 · OtherKU EndowmentAmerican Red Cross: $82,500 · OtherAmerican Red CrossAmerican Red Cross Topeka: $50,000 · OtherChildCare Aware: $50,000 · OtherKANSAS FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION: $60,500 · Other+118 more: $871,750 · Other+118 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 …SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropySALINA AREA UN…UNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBenedictine College: $25,000 · EducationBenedictin…BAKER UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationBAKER UNIV…BETHEL COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationBETHEL COL…KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationKANSAS WES…CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC: $14,570 · EducationCHILDREN F…INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $14,014 · EducationFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC: $10,000 · EducationWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationHESSTON COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationGARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EducationPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 · Education+9 more: $55,000 · Education+9 moreKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CH…FLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Arts & CultureFLINT HIL…EXPLORATION PLACE INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORATI…HUMANITIES KANSAS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureHUMANITIE…KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $20,000 · Human ServicesBIG LAKES DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC: $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 ServicesAMERICAN BAPTIST ESTATES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesNUMANA INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesEast Topeka Council on Aging Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesStarfish Project Foundation: $5,000 · Human ServicesMelven O Kuder Senior Center Association: $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$1,319,750Health$496,710Philanthropy$380,000Education$263,584Arts & Culture$245,000Human Services$120,000Youth Development$100,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 2y, 16% 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 budgetBenedictine College: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBAKER UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBETHEL COLLEGE: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CASA ASSOCIATION INC: $20,771 over 1y, 14% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG LAKES DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 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 budgetHEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPrairie View Inc: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDANCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311): $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RACE AGAINST BREAST CANCER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetFOUR COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGuadalupe Clinic Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COUNSELING & CONSULTATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKONZA PRAIRIE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH LAYTON CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 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 budgetHESSTON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCompass Behavioral Health: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIESTAR HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVISION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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.

Kansas Health Foundat…Sunflower Foundation …Wichita FoundationUnited Way of the Pla…Topeka Community Foun…The Sunderland Founda…Textron Charitable Tr…Dwane L and Velma Lun…Berry Foundation IncGreater Salina Commun…Greater Manhattan Com…Belin Foundation
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

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 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 584 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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