· Private foundation
Emil Babinger Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of Emil Babinger Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 92%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against -30% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 28 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Emil Babinger Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emil Babinger Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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