· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 67 grants below total $1,566,811 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,782,656 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $215,845 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k39 grants · $814k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $588k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Community Health Center of Southeast Kansas | $220,468 |
| Support Local Journalism Project | $117,210 |
| First Church of the Nazarene- Pittsburg | $100,000 |
| City of Pittsburg | $81,474 |
| Frontenac Education Foundation | $68,592 |
| City of Frontenac | $45,919 |
| SEK Humane Society of Crawford County Kansas | $39,327 |
| First United Methodist Church Wesley House | $38,180 |
| Crawford County Government | $37,255 |
| Fort Scott Community College Foundation | $34,483 |
| The Salvation Army | $34,201 |
| Bourbon County EMS | $29,000 |
| Future STEAM Inc | $24,528 |
| First Christian Church - Columbus | $23,771 |
| Bourbon County Kansas | $23,173 |
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 (FY17–24, $506k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
84 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k 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
- PSPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $612k · revenue +88%
- U2USD 249 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FUND7× · 2018–2024 · $414k · revenue +59% · 58% of their budget
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $314k · revenue +200%
Funded once
- PFPOINT FORWARD INCone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -81%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF KANSASone grant, 2020 · $88k
- LLIFECHOICESone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%
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.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Promote the Pittsburg, Kansas business community.
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To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families and Children Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Lung Association. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
77 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 139 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 PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds USD 249 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FUND ↗
- Who funds FORT SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SEK HUMANE SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS ↗
- Who funds POINT FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE ↗
- Who funds ANGELS AMONG US INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Carmel Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pittsburg Area Chamber Foundation ↗
- Who funds BEACON INC ↗
- Who funds Girard Youth Activities Inc ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Coleman Family Foundation Inc · Pritchett Foundation · The United Way of Southwest Missouri · Kansas Health Foundation · Ronald O Thomas Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Parsons Area Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Arvest Foundation · Miller Family Foundation Inc
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 Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas 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.