· Private foundation
Emil Babinger Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL | $130,000 |
| EMPORIA SENIOR CENTER | $15,000 |
| ST JOSEPHS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $15,000 |
| LEARNING CONNECTION OF THE FLINT HL | $15,000 |
| ESU FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| EMPORIA HIGH SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| CAMP WOOD YMCA | $10,000 |
| FLINTHILLS TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| LYON COUNTY 4-H | $7,000 |
| ESU FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Emil Babinger Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 92% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +60% since the first grant, against -30% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- EAEMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL6× · 2020–2025 · $330k · revenue +49%
- CWCAMP WOOD YMCA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +194%
- ESEmporia Senior Center Inc3× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- SJST JOSEPH CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $35k
- LCLEARNING CONNECTION OF THE FLINT HIone grant, 2023 · $15k
- SLSOUTHERN LYON COUNTY USD 252one grant, 2020 · $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.
The center provides day care to community children between the ages of two weeks to 6 years from 6:30 am to 6:00 pm monday through friday.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
The El Dorado Community Foundation is dedicated to strengthening our community both now and for future generations. The Foundation fulfills its mission by:- Encouraging private giving for the public good.- Building and maintaining a…
Enhancing and promoting the educational system in Eudora, Kansas and providing the Eudora School District and students with financial assistance from donations.
To be proactive in creating an environment for business and community success
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
The YMCA of Edwardsville is a public charity, led by a volunteer Board of Directors. Their mission is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy body, mind and spirit for all.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Provide low income, multi family housing under sec. 8 of the national housing act.
Endowment support for the Appleton Branch of the YMCA of the Fox Cities.
To support the efforts of the emporia area chamber of commerce in being proactive in creating an environment for business and community success.
The Edwards County Farm Bureau was organized to support and preserve the best interests of its agricultural communities, to educate the public and to enhance framing profitability for future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emporia Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Olpe Community Improvement Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 28 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 EMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP WOOD YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Emporia Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Emporia Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Olpe Community Improvement Inc ↗
- Who funds HETLINGER DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Gardner Edgerton Schools 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: Emporia Community Foundation · Jane & Bernard Reeble Foundation · The Trusler Foundation Inc · Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust · E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation · Loretto a Langley Trust · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · The Sunderland Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Emil Babinger Charitable Trust 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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