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Emporia Community Foundation
Emporia Community Foundation is a collection of separate funds and resources given by caring citizens who have chosen to make their community a better place to work and live, now and in the future.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 67 grants below total $3,489,340 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,880,368 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $391,028 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $83k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $778k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Newman Regional Health | $841,583 |
| CrossWinds Counseling and Wellness | $394,663 |
| Symphony in the Flint Hills | $347,676 |
| Olpe Community Improvement Inc | $131,000 |
| USD 252 | $108,583 |
| Kansas State University Foundation | $99,500 |
| Hetlinger Developmental Services Inc | $83,132 |
| Chase County Care & Compassion Inc | $77,630 |
| USD 284 | $75,352 |
| City of Americus | $73,190 |
| Hetlinger Foundation | $66,052 |
| Strong City Preservation Alliance Inc | $64,625 |
| Greenwood Preservation Society | $60,000 |
| First Congregational Church | $54,000 |
| American Diabetes Association | $51,225 |
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 (FY18–24, $594k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
88 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $522k 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
- MHMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +129%
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +107%
- EMEMPORIA MAIN STREET INC5× · 2019–2024 · $591k · revenue +27% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- EREMPORIA RESCUE MISSION INCone grant, 2021 · $513k · revenue -83% · 67% of their budget
- MTMOON TITLE & ESCROW LLCone grant, 2017 · $138k
- EPEASTGATE PLAZA INCone grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue -7%
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.
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
To support members in farming
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To preserve and sustain rural culture. to educate kansans about kansas (to create a thoughtful audience for communities) and network & support rural communities.
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
To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.
The mission of the el dorado chamber of commerce is to enhance and develop the economic vitality of business through leadership, education, advocacy, and relationship development.
Enhancement of leadership qualities
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emporia First Friday Art Walk Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 167 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 MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Emporia Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds The Pioneer Bluffs Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHASE COUNTY CARE & COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL EMPORIA AREA ↗
- Who funds HETLINGER DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds NLC YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS EPISCOPAL PARISH FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SOS Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds Olpe Community Improvement Inc ↗
- Who funds HETLINGER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTGATE PLAZA INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALEXANDER OF EMPORIA LYON COUNTY KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWTHER BUILDING FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP WOOD YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE FLINT HILLS ↗
- Who funds Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
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: The Trusler Foundation Inc · E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation · Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust · Jane & Bernard Reeble Foundation · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · United Way of the Flint Hills Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Loretto a Langley Trust · Ima Foundation · Kansas Health 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 Emporia Community 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.
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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