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Central Kansas Community Foundation

Building stronger communities through charitable giving.

$3.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
77
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$257k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$3.5MEnvironment$2.5MPublic Benefit$2.4MHuman Services$1.7MHealth$1.0MReligion$854kArts & Culture$846kPhilanthropy$802kOther$0
02FY2025 · 77 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 77 grants below total $1,769,789, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,803,059 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,033,270 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $167k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $822k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $524k
  • $250k+1 grant · $257k
$13,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hillsboro Community Child Care Center Inc$257,000
City of Hesston$107,108
Marion County Fire District #2$100,000
Newton Senior Center$70,000
Sunflower Theatre Foundation Inc$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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FREDONIA CHILD CARE CENTER: $35k → 14%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $22k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $22k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $21k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $17k → 12%TENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $17k → 12%Tennyson Center for Children: $13k → 12%Tennyson Center for Children: $13k → 12%Tennyson Center for Children: $13k → 12%Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice: $7k → 16%HOSPICE INC: $6k → 16%HESSTON COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ASSN: $12k → 9%HOSPICE INC: $6k → 16%HESSTON COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ASSN: $12k → 9%Simply Hygiene Inc: $8k → 16%Hillsboro Community Child Care Center Inc: $257k → 10%Hillsboro Community Child Care Center Inc: $215k → 10%Hillsboro Community Child Care Center Inc: $73k → 10%Hillsboro Community Child Care Center Inc: $20k → 10%PARKSIDE HOMES INC: $7k → 10%MAIN STREET MINISTRIES INC: $5k → 10%Safehope: $33k → 9%Safehope: $13k → 9%Safehope: $11k → 9%EmberHope Inc: $9k → 9%HEART TO HEART CHILD ADVOCACY CTR: $6k → 9%EmberHope Inc: $6k → 9%EmberHope Inc: $6k → 9%Heart to Heart Child Advocacy Center: $6k → 9%EMBERHOPE INC: $5k → 9%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 92 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

92
46

Total granted

$13M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+14%

Still filing today

51%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $263k 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 ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterArts & CultureReligionOther
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

  • PC
    PEACE CONNECTIONS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +17% · 39% of their budget
  • MB
    MENNONITE BETHESDA SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +4%
  • BC
    BETHEL COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $227k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • MN
    MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $490k · revenue +29%
  • NH
    Newton Health CO Commerced Trust Company
    one grant, 2024 · $205k
  • CO
    City of Augusta
    one grant, 2024 · $92k
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
Frankfort Community Care Home Inc

The organization owns and operates a skilled nursing facility for the elderly and disabled in Frankfort, Kansas.

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3
Labette County Medical Center

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

Health
4
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Inc

Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County

Health
5
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
6
Atchison Community Health Clinic Inc

Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.

Health
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
Housing Services of Kansas City Inc

The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.

Housing & Shelter
9
Community HealthCare System Inc

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…

Health
10
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
11
Kansas Affordable Housing Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prairie View Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
54/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Newton: $3,055,313 · OtherCity of NewtonUSD 373 Newton: $840,166 · OtherUSD 373 NewtonCITY OF HESSTON: $742,824 · OtherCITY OF HESSTONCITY OF HILLSBORO: $406,262 · Other+111 more: $5,849,238 · Other+111 moreMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $490,000 · EducationMIDAMERIC…BETHEL COLLEGE: $227,439 · EducationBETHEL CO…HESSTON COLLEGE: $186,858 · EducationHESSTON C…LEADERSHIP BUTLER INC: $109,947 · EducationLEADERSHI…TORLINE FAMILY SCHOLARSHIP TRUST: $73,597 · EducationTORLINE F…BUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $46,350 · Education+4 more: $81,624 · Education+4 moreHILLSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC: $564,550 · Human ServicesTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $135,518 · Human ServicesHARVEY COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT TASK FORCE INC: $56,810 · Human ServicesFREDONIA CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $35,000 · Human Services+7 more: $99,285 · Human ServicesCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $726,672 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF HARVEY AND MARION COUNTIES INC: $65,939 · PhilanthropyASBURY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $32,083 · PhilanthropyMENNONITE BETHESDA SOCIETY INC: $300,448 · HealthNEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $96,469 · HealthPrairie View Inc: $64,807 · HealthFrom the Ground Up Organization Inc: $20,523 · HealthCARING PLACE INC: $18,069 · Health+3 more: $17,918 · HealthFriends of Kansas Christian Home Inc: $186,994 · Housing & ShelterHESSTON INTERGENERATIONAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $78,800 · Housing & ShelterRISE - EL DORADO INC: $30,355 · Housing & ShelterNEW HOPE SHELTER INC: $28,845 · Housing & ShelterSunflower Theatre Foundation Inc: $214,006 · Arts & CultureMENNONITE HERITAGE & AGRCLTR MUSEUM: $74,848 · Arts & CultureMCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY: $19,890 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $14,030 · Arts & Culture
Other$10,893,803Education$1,215,815Human Services$891,163Philanthropy$874,694Health$518,234Housing & Shelter$324,994Arts & Culture$322,774

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 budgetCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $726,672 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetHILLSBORO COMMUNITY CHILDCARE CENTER INC: $564,550 over 4y, 24% of budgetMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $490,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPEACE CONNECTIONS: $339,775 over 9y, 39% of budgetMENNONITE BETHESDA SOCIETY INC: $300,448 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetBETHEL COLLEGE: $227,439 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNEWTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION INC: $225,531 over 9y, 30% of budgetSunflower Theatre Foundation Inc: $214,006 over 5y, 47% of budgetFriends of Kansas Christian Home Inc: $186,994 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHESSTON COLLEGE: $186,858 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Time Training Inc: $152,540 over 9y, 18% of budgetNEWTON AREA SENIOR CENTER INC: $141,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetTENNYSON CENTER FOR CHILDREN AT COLORADO CHRISTIAN HOME: $135,518 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetLEADERSHIP BUTLER INC: $109,947 over 8y, 42% of budgetNEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $96,469 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC: $95,536 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KANSAS LEARNING CENTER FOR HEALTH INC: $93,815 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetFLORENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $86,000 over 2y, 58% of budgetELK COUNTY PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $82,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetWORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $80,149 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHESSTON INTERGENERATIONAL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $78,800 over 6y, 94% of budgetMENNONITE HERITAGE & AGRCLTR MUSEUM: $74,848 over 3y, 24% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HARVEY AND MARION COUNTIES INC: $65,939 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetPrairie View Inc: $64,807 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEY COUNTY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT TASK FORCE INC: $56,810 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $55,479 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetASBURY PARK FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetBUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $46,350 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNEWTON MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $44,404 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $37,895 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $37,452 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetFREDONIA CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $35,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDOUGLASS SENIOR CENTER INC: $34,081 over 4y, 10% of budgetMORNING STAR MINISTRY: $33,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetRISE - EL DORADO INC: $30,355 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNEW HOPE SHELTER INC: $28,845 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEMBERHOPE INC: $25,195 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $24,238 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHESSTON COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $24,012 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetBIGLIFE INTERNATIONAL INC: $22,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRROR INC: $22,028 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEWTON MID KANSAS ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $21,760 over 4y, 18% of budgetFrom the Ground Up Organization Inc: $20,523 over 2y, 31% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,144 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $20,144 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY: $19,890 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOPE PROJECT INC: $18,660 over 2y, 65% of budgetHEARTSPRING FOUNDATION: $18,425 over 3y, 5.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Greater HorizonsUnited Way of the Pla…Kansas Health Foundat…United Way of Harvey …Textron Charitable Tr…Wichita FoundationKansas Association of…Eberhard Charles Neys…Goebel Family-Star Lu…Berry Foundation IncThe Sunderland Founda…Lewis Humphreys Chari…
Greater HorizonsMO52.1× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%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
    20report 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.

    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 157 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 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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