· Private foundation
Emma Balsiger Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DICKINSON CO LIBRARY | $8,400 |
| 410 IRISH DEN | $4,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS THEATRE INC | $3,500 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF DICKINSON COUNTY | $3,500 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR ON CEDAR STREET | $3,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN KS | $3,000 |
| EISENHOWER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| KANSAS KIDS IN CRISIS | $1,500 |
| SHILOH RANCH MINISTRIES | $1,500 |
| HOSPICE OF DICKINSON CO | $1,500 |
| ABILENE AREA FOOD & CLOTHING BANK | $1,500 |
| ST ANDREWS SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| PREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| JC PREGNANCY CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| PRE BORN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against -3% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 4I410 IRISH DEN6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue ×19
- TEThe Eisenhower Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +34%
- MPMission Pre-Born Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +960%
Funded once
- CHCL HOOVER OPERA HOUSEone grant, 2019 · $2k
- DCDICKINSON CO HERITAGE CENTERone grant, 2021 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Historical museum and library. preservation of historical information and materials relating to barton county kansas.
The Value Them Both Coalition is made up of Kansas citizens and groups who believe every human life has value. We are committed to advocating across our state for the passage of the Value Them Both Amendment to ensure that Kansas can stop…
Practical help for anyone facing an unplanned pregnancy.
Nativty House KC provides hope, healing, shelter and love to young unwed mothers in a faith oriented environment based on the Roman Catholic Tradition by providing a residential maternity home in Wyandotte County, Kansas. It provides…
To maintain the old abilene town property
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
Preserve items of historical value and provide education for the people residing in lane and surrounding counties of western kansas.
Pregnancy care center is a non-profit christian ministry in southeast indiana honoring life and offering hope to those facing an unplanned pregnancy by providing education, limited medical care, information and resources.
Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge which will esstablish and illustrate the history of kittson county.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 43 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 ARTS COUNCIL OF DICKINSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds 410 IRISH DEN ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR ON CEDAR STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mission Pre-Born Inc ↗
- Who funds Kansans For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE AND SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROKEN WING RANCH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JC PREGNANCY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Dickinson County Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Emma Balsiger Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emma Balsiger Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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