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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
67
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$220k
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 2024.

Education$3.1MPublic Benefit$1.9MReligion$1.7MHealth$1.1MHuman Services$501kAnimals$394kArts & Culture$385kCommunity Improvement$375kOther$0
02FY2024 · 67 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 67 grants below total $1,566,811, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,782,656 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $215,845 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $165k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $814k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $588k
$14,028
Median grant
3
States reached
$70M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EDEN EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY: $9k → 15%HUMANITY HOUSE FOUNDATION: $9k → 16%KVC Kansas: $7k → 5%Catholic Charities Inc: $23k → 16%WATERED GARDENS: $10k → 18%Southeast Kansas Area Agency on Aging: $8k → 16%DBLO Association: $19k → 16%DBLO ASSOCIATION: $17k → 16%LABETTE COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE: $8k → 15%DBLO ASSOCIATION: $14k → 16%BRIGHT FUTURES CONNECTIONS FOR SUCC: $15k → 15%BEACON INC: $24k → 19%BEACON INC: $20k → 19%BEACON INC: $19k → 19%Fostering Connections: $14k → 18%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS INC: $13k → 18%BEACON INC: $16k → 19%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS INC: $10k → 18%The Beacon Inc: $15k → 19%FOSTERING CONNECTIONS INC: $7k → 18%BEACON INC: $10k → 19%BOURBON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $7k → 19%BOURBON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $7k → 19%BOURBON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $7k → 19%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $60k → 18%Safehouse Crisis Center Inc: $20k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $14k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $13k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $12k → 18%Family Resource Center Inc: $12k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $11k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $11k → 18%VIE MEDICAL CLINIC: $9k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $9k → 18%FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $7k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $7k → 18%SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER: $5k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 84 repeat orgs$913k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
41

Total granted

$9.2M
$707k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+14%

Still filing today

51%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • PS
    PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $612k · revenue +88%
  • U2
    USD 249 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FUND
    7× · 2018–2024 · $414k · revenue +59% · 58% of their budget
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $314k · revenue +204%

Funded once

  • PF
    POINT FORWARD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue -81%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
    one grant, 2020 · $88k
  • L
    LIFECHOICES
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +24%
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
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
South Central Community Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to enhance the life, culture and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
3
Sck Health Foundation

Ensuring quality healthcare for future generations.

Health
4
Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation

Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…

Education
5
Pittsburg Area Chamber of Commerce

Promote the Pittsburg, Kansas business community.

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6
Labette County Medical Center

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

Health
7
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
8
Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health
9
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
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10
Harper County Health Foundation

Support and promote overall health and wellness within the Harper County, Kansas, area and surrounding communities

Health
11
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
12
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.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families and Children Together Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 139 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/77
Grantees still filing
50/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF PITTSBURG: $978,843 · OtherCITY OF PITTSBURGUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $453,462 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEFORT SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $371,090 · OtherFORT SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONCCSCHOOL INC: $367,488 · OtherCCSCHOOL INCCITY OF FRONTENAC: $320,467 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $274,004 · OtherFORT SCOTTBOURBON COUNTY RIVERFRON: $263,142 · OtherUSD 234 FORT SCOTT: $257,935 · Other+77 more: $3,483,520 · Other+77 morePITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $612,196 · EducationPITTSBURG STATE…USD 249 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FUND: $413,914 · EducationUSD 249 EDUCATI…The Kansas University Endowment Association: $117,450 · EducationThe Kansas Univ…KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $74,049 · Education+10 more: $206,254 · Education+10 moreCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $314,264 · HealthHOSPITAL DISTRICT 1 CRAWFORD COUNTY FOUNDATION: $63,861 · HealthLIFECHOICES: $50,000 · HealthLabette Health Foundation Inc: $34,650 · HealthPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $21,793 · Health+10 more: $101,352 · HealthFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $128,936 · Human ServicesBEACON INC: $103,744 · Human ServicesSAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $59,440 · Human ServicesDBLO ASSOCIATION: $49,719 · Human ServicesFOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $44,128 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $23,100 · Human ServicesBOURBON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $21,793 · Human Services+8 more: $75,557 · Human ServicesPOINT FORWARD INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementANGELS AMONG US INC: $142,071 · Community ImprovementPittsburg Area Chamber Foundation: $106,080 · Community Improvement+2 more: $21,879 · Community ImprovementSEK HUMANE SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS: $298,968 · Animals+1 more: $7,745 · AnimalsGirard Youth Activities Inc: $97,461 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $56,930 · Recreation & SportsThe Crawford County Fair Association Incorporated: $16,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$6,769,951Education$1,423,863Health$585,920Human Services$506,417Community Improvement$470,030Animals$306,713Recreation & Sports$170,391

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 budgetPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $612,196 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUSD 249 EDUCATION FOUNDATION FUND: $413,914 over 7y, 58% of budgetFORT SCOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $371,090 over 7y, 9.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $314,264 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSEK HUMANE SOCIETY OF CRAWFORD COUNTY KANSAS: $298,968 over 7y, 27% of budgetPOINT FORWARD INC: $200,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $158,925 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetANGELS AMONG US INC: $142,071 over 8y, 67% of budgetFAMILY RESOURCE CENTER INC: $128,936 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Southeast Kansas: $122,639 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $117,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $113,672 over 5y, 35% of budgetMount Carmel Foundation: $109,495 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetPittsburg Area Chamber Foundation: $106,080 over 8y, 25% of budgetBEACON INC: $103,744 over 6y, 23% of budgetGirard Youth Activities Inc: $97,461 over 7y, 46% of budgetPITTSBURG PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD: $93,687 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $74,049 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTILWELL HERITAGE & EDUCATIONAL: $66,912 over 3y, 11% of budgetHOSPITAL DISTRICT 1 CRAWFORD COUNTY FOUNDATION: $63,861 over 6y, 19% of budgetSAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC: $59,440 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $56,930 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCLASS LTD: $51,259 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIFECHOICES: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDBLO ASSOCIATION: $49,719 over 3y, 53% of budgetFOSTERING CONNECTIONS: $44,128 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $43,286 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC: $36,123 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHAITIAN CHRISTIAN MISSION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLabette Health Foundation Inc: $34,650 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $34,045 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPITTSBURG UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 250 FOUNDATION: $31,730 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetCARE TO SHARE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP OF BOURBON COUNTY KANSAS INC: $29,716 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $23,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARALYZED VETERANS OF AMERICA: $21,793 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOURBON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS: $21,793 over 3y, 13% of budgetKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $20,864 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCURIOUS MINDS DISCOVERY ZONE INC: $16,769 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOL: $16,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEOSHO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $16,010 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetUNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT 248 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetFAMILIES AND CHILDREN TOGETHER INC: $15,599 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES CONNECTIONS FOR SUCCESS: $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSOUTHEAST KANSAS COMMUNITY ACTION P: $14,804 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $14,605 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $14,605 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $14,605 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON PARKS MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $14,138 over 2y, 16% 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 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 ↗

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.

Sunflower Foundation …Commerce Bancshares F…Coleman Family Founda…Pritchett FoundationThe United Way of Sou…Kansas Health Foundat…Ronald O Thomas Found…Greater Kansas City C…Parsons Area Communit…Community Foundation …Arvest FoundationMiller Family Foundat…
Sunflower Foundation Health Care for KansansKS34.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%5%19%42%75%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
    2get no government money at all
    18report 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 139 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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