· Private foundation
Cleon Dettmer Charitable Trust % the Peoples Bank
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k17 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $19,760 |
| ST JOHN LUTHERAN CHURCH | $12,171 |
| KENSINGTON FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,800 |
| FIRST ST JOHN LUTHERAN CH | $8,600 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN LEGION OF KENSIN | $7,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| KENSINGTON MINISTERIAL ASSOC | $5,500 |
| HOME CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,340 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA - KEARNEY | $4,960 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,960 |
| KENSINGTON LIONS CLUB | $4,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,857 |
| UNITED CHURCH OF KENSINGTON | $3,700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
34 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2026, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBETHANY COLLEGE5× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +17%
- KWKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2026 · $8k · revenue +28%
DRAKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $8k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- HCHUTCHINSON COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- UCUNITED CHURCH OF KENSINGTone grant, 2025 · $3k
- TPTHE PAUL MITCHELL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
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.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Dunwoody offers one, two, and four year degrees that lead to immediate jobs and great careers.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Bates College is a private, highly selective, residential college devoted to undergraduate study in the traditional disciplines of the liberal arts and sciences as well as in emerging interdisciplinary programs.
A residential, coeducation, undergraduate liberal arts college.
Provide education for undergraduate, graduate, and professional continuing education programs, and to engage in high quality research and scholarship.
To provide an exceptional undergraduate liberal arts education.
To transform students for lives of character and service through a christ-centered education.
To educate a diverse student population by providing a learning environment and programs of study that prepare graduates for professional careers and further education, equipping them with the broad skills and ethical insights of a liberal…
Promote education, the development of skills, knowledge, and personal qualities.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Founded in 1891, meredith college offers comprehensive liberal arts and professional studies for undergraduate women. meredith challenges students to discover what makes them strong, build on those strengths, and prepare to make a positive…
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 41 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Theodore W and Ruth a Levin Charitable Trust · Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Kansas Independent College Association · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cleon Dettmer Charitable Trust % the Peoples Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cleon Dettmer Charitable Trust % the Peoples Bank. Bigger dots raise more.
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