· Private foundation
E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
51% of E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Emporia Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $256k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 77% of E L AND Z IRENE HOPKINS PRIVATE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| USD 253 | $26,443 |
| ESU FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| USD 252 | $23,632 |
| RADICAL LIFE INC | $17,000 |
| FHTC | $15,000 |
| HETLINGER DEVELOPMENTAL SERV INC | $10,000 |
| EMPORIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| USD 420 | $7,768 |
| USD 253 | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| IMAGINARIUM | $6,000 |
| KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
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, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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 +50% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- CWCAMP WOOD YMCA INC7× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +63%
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospital2× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +67%
- EMEMPORIA MAIN STREET INC2× · 2020–2021 · $67k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- CMCHILDRENS MERCY DEP OF PHILANTHROPYone grant, 2020 · $50k
- KKSDSone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY OF THE FLINT HILLSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -43%
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.
Enhancement of leadership qualities
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
The mission of the el dorado chamber of commerce is to enhance and develop the economic vitality of business through leadership, education, advocacy, and relationship development.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
To provide a world-class neighborhood school whose students excel in a culture of academic rigor, character development, and caring relationships.
The children's advocacy center of kansas (cacks) is committed to securing appropriate resources for ensuring the healthy establishment and sustainability of kansas child advocacy centers and the kansas chapter. cacks is committed to…
Ensuring that all children and youth can reach their full potential for physical, mental, emotional, and social health, growing up safe, strong, and with confidence in the future.
Religious and educational instruction
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Teachers Hall of Fame Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 76 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 Emporia Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAMP WOOD YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds HETLINGER DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RADICAL LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION CREEK CAMP & RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE SERVICES OF EMPORIA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE FLINT HILLS ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
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: Emporia Community Foundation · The Trusler Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · The Sunderland Foundation · Jane & Bernard Reeble Foundation · Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust · Kansas Health Foundation · Emil Babinger Charitable Trust · The Patterson Family Foundation · Ima Foundation
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 E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private 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.
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