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Elmer Dalke Charitable Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $102k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCPHERSON COUNTY COMM FOUNDATION | $1,002,160 |
| MCPHERSON COLLEGE | $600,000 |
| CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS | $52,000 |
| MCPHERSON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| STEP MC | $20,000 |
| LINDSBORG CHILD DVL CTR TUITION FD | $12,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF MCPHERSON | $10,000 |
| CASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN INC | $10,000 |
| MCPHERSON HOSPITAL INC | $10,000 |
| MCPHERSON FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
| AG IN THE CLASSROOM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF MCPHERSON | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- MCMCPHERSON COLLEGE5× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +129%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS OF MCPHERSON KS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +83%
- MCMCPHERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK INC4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- CCASAone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
McPherson Museum and Arts Foundation preserves and presents, for public benefit, the historical, cultural and artistic heritage of the McPherson community.
The purpose of the Plan is to provide employees of McPherson Hospital, Inc. a choice between health care benefits under certain benefit plans maintained by the Hospital.
The organization seeks to increase the availability of affordable, safe, quality housing; improve community quality of life and economic vitality; promote self-sufficiency and asset development of families and individuals; and ensure equal…
United way of mcpherson county is dedicated to building a stronger community by addressing issues related to education, health, and income.
To establish McPherson Opera House as a historically significant gathering place for cultural entertainment and educational opportunities.
To work as an organization of individuals, businesses, and professionals to enhance the economic, civic, and cultural interests of the mcpherson area.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
Provide fire/emergency services and education - Governmental
McKinney Medical Center, Inc. (MMC) provides medical and dental care to the under-served individuals of the community. The Clinic provides preventative healthcare for adults, adolescents, children and infants and offers family medicine,…
Building stronger communities through charitable giving.
To provide lodging to families of hospitalized children at an affordable cost, or no cost, based on need through operation of the ronald mcdonald house.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is McPherson Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Casa a Voice for Children Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS ↗
- Who funds McPherson Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF MCPHERSON KS INC ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds McPherson County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds McPherson Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
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: McPherson County Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Farmers Alliance Companies Charitable Foundation · Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Elmer Dalke Charitable 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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