· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $197k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| USD 253 | $26,443 |
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| ESU FOUNDATION INC | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| USD 253 | $7,500 |
| IMAGINARIUM | $6,000 |
| KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- CCROSSWINDSone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 76 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.
- 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 The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE FLINT HILLS ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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