Kansas · Private foundation
Earl Bane Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 57
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Earl Bane Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $1.4M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $1.1M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $1.3M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $898k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $788k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $1.3M | 51% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $932k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethany College | $870,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $465,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Salina Area United Way Inc | $455,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Kansas State University | $426,250 | 7 | n/a |
| Salina Regional Health Foundation | $295,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Salina Rescue Mission Inc | $278,700 | 6 | 4% |
| The Land Institute | $255,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Salina Grace Foundation | $240,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Salina Health Education Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Salina Public Library | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 56 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Earl Bane Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About Earl Bane Foundation
- How much does Earl Bane Foundation give?
- Earl Bane Foundation reported 49 itemized grants totaling $1,381,600, out of $1,846,600 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 57 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Earl Bane Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (35%), Arts & Culture (10%), Health (8%).
- Who are Earl Bane Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Bethany College ($870k), Kansas Wesleyan University ($465k), Salina Area United Way Inc ($455k).
- Does Earl Bane Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Earl Bane Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Earl Bane Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Salina Community Foundation, Smoot Charitable Foundation, Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Earl Bane Foundation based?
- Earl Bane Foundation is based in KS.
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