· Private foundation
Earl Bane Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 49 grants below total $1,381,600 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,846,600 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $465,000 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $775k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Land Institute | $250,000 |
| Salina Area United Way | $200,000 |
| Salina Family Healthcare Center | $200,000 |
| Bethany College | $150,000 |
| USD 307 | $75,000 |
| Salina Grace Foundation | $50,000 |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $50,000 |
| Friends of the River Foundation | $50,000 |
| Salina Child Care Association | $40,000 |
| CAPS | $25,000 |
| Smoky Hill Museum | $25,000 |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $25,000 |
| USD 305 | $20,000 |
| Theatre Salina | $20,000 |
| Saline County Dept of Senior Services | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $302k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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 +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $363k 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
- BCBETHANY COLLEGE7× · 2019–2025 · $870k · revenue +8%
- KWKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY7× · 2019–2025 · $465k · revenue +58%
- SASALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $455k · revenue +693%
Funded once
- SPSALINA PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $200k
- SBSALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -87%
- KAKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIESone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -8%
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.
Promote and support economic development
To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.
To support and further the development, public awareness, and interest in the fine and performing arts and humanities in salina, kansas. to be a supporting organization to the city of salina, kansas, the arts and humanities commission and…
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
The advancement of charitable, religious, scientific, literary, or educational purposes. financial aid and assistance will be provided to the young men's christian association of salina, kansas and other causes and institutions related to,…
To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment
Christian education
Enrichment programs and other projects aimed at enhancing the quality of education and educational opportunities for all students.
Continue to operate a self-sustaining, state of the art dental clinic that serves all patients including those who are insured, under insured, uninsured or medicade participants for residents of northwest kansas and surrounding areas.
The foundation promotes the future, and preserves the history, of golf in kansas.
To provide care and refuge for animals in need.
To promote the public health and health service, especially in the state of kansas, to advance the art and science of dentistry and to foster an awareness of the obligations and responsibilities of the dental profession in society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Central Kansas Youth Golf 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 129 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 BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds The Land Institute ↗
- Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KANSAS FLYWHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds OCCK INC ↗
- Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROLLING HILLS ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATION 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: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust · Zimmerman Family Foundation · Dane G Hansen 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 Earl Bane 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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