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.

Earl Bane Foundation

Earl Bane Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Earl Bane Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$250k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$2.8MArts & Culture$802kHealth$662kHousing & Shelter$579kEnvironment$567kPhilanthropy$514kHuman Services$468kRecreation & Sports$333kOther$0

02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 49 grants below total $1,381,600, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,846,600 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $465,000 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 · FY2025

Under $10k27 grants · $107k
$10k–50k14 grants · $250k
$50k–250k7 grants · $775k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The Land Institute	$250,000
Salina Family Healthcare Center	$200,000
Salina Area United Way	$200,000
Bethany College	$150,000
USD 307	$75,000
Salina Grace Foundation	$50,000
Friends of the River Foundation	$50,000
Kansas Wesleyan University	$50,000
Salina Child Care Association	$40,000
Kansas Wesleyan University	$25,000
CAPS	$25,000
Smoky Hill Museum	$25,000
Saline County Dept of Senior Services	$20,000
USD 305	$20,000
Theatre Salina	$20,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.3M · 63 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

63 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.3M

$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%

+26%

Still filing today

48%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

BC
BETHANY COLLEGE
7× · 2019–2025 · $870k · revenue +8%
KW
KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
7× · 2019–2025 · $465k · revenue +58%
SA
SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC
7× · 2019–2025 · $455k · revenue +693%

Funded once

SP
SALINA PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2023 · $200k
SB
SALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES INC
one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -87%
UM
UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF THE CROSS
one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

Salina Community Economic Development Organization Inc

Promote and support economic development

Community Improvement

Salina Regional Health Center Inc

To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment

Health

Salina Area Chamber of Commerceinc

To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.

Community Improvement

Salina Arts and Humanities Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture

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

Salina Ymca Endowment Foundation

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,…

Human Services

Salina Christian Academy Inc

Christian education

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Foundation for Saline Area Schools

Enrichment programs and other projects aimed at enhancing the quality of education and educational opportunities for all students.

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Rawlins County Dental Clinic Fund dba Northwest Smile Center

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.

Health

Saline County Humane Society

To provide care and refuge for animals in need.

—

Kansas Dental Association Inc

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.

—

Hospice of Salina Inc

Serve persons with terminal illness and their families, using multidisciplinary team of medical and social service professionals, and provide community outreach by offering grief support groups and end of life education.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Regional Health Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

53 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. 53 of the 119 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/53

Grantees still filing

40/53

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,657,207Education$1,658,000Arts & Culture$542,900Housing & Shelter$540,700Philanthropy$519,000Health$379,000Human Services$364,650

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.

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.

Greater Salina Community FoundationKS80.8× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

15report 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.

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