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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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
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.
To preserve and sustain rural culture. to educate kansans about kansas (to create a thoughtful audience for communities) and network & support rural communities.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
Enhancement of leadership qualities
None
The Foundation's mission is to enhance the life, culture and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
How this is measured
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Emporia Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Emporia Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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