· Community foundation
Central Kansas Community Foundation
Building stronger communities through charitable giving.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 77 grants below total $1,769,789 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,803,059 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,033,270 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $167k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $822k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $524k
- $250k+1 grant · $257k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Hillsboro Community Child Care Center Inc | $257,000 |
| City of Hesston | $107,108 |
| Marion County Fire District #2 | $100,000 |
| Sunflower Theatre Foundation Inc | $70,000 |
| Newton Senior Center | $70,000 |
| Newton Area Senior Center | $65,000 |
| Elk County Preservation Society Inc | $58,000 |
| Mennonite Heritage & Agricultural Museum | $53,820 |
| Florence Historical Society | $36,000 |
| City of Newton | $35,313 |
| Kansas Christian Home | $31,940 |
| Newton Public Library | $31,400 |
| Newton Public Library Foundation | $30,000 |
| USD 373 Newton | $28,600 |
| Salvation Army - Butler County | $28,076 |
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 (FY17–25, $891k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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
- PCPEACE CONNECTIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +17% · 39% of their budget
- MBMENNONITE BETHESDA SOCIETY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +4%
- BCBETHEL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +124%
Funded once
- MNMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $490k · revenue +29%
- NHNewton Health CO Commerced Trust Companyone grant, 2024 · $205k
- COCity of Augustaone grant, 2024 · $92k
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.
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.
The organization owns and operates a skilled nursing facility for the elderly and disabled in Frankfort, Kansas.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
To advance the health of the douglas county community through comprehensive behavioral health services responsive to evolving needs and changing environments.
Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.
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…
The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.
Community HealthCare System,in partnership with our medical staff, has a long standing tradition in providing quality and compassionate health care to rural communities of NE Kansas and all our patients. Our mission is to enrich the health…
To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.
Provide support for mennonite housing rehabilitation services, inc., which provides low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with ownership opportunities and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prairie View Inc and the most unlike its peers is Torline Family Scholarship Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 157 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
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 Central Kansas Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds HILLSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEACE CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds MENNONITE BETHESDA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BETHEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Sunflower Theatre Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Kansas Christian Home Inc ↗
- Who funds HESSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Family Time Training Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWTON AREA SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP BUTLER INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS LEARNING CENTER FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ELK COUNTY PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Greater Horizons · United Way of the Plains Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · United Way of Harvey and Marion Counties Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Wichita Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Eberhard Charles Neysa and Terril Charitable · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Berry Foundation Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust
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 Central Kansas Community Foundation 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.