· Public charity
Finney County United Way Inc
To focus our community and resources to make the greatest difference in meeting identified human needs in finney county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $327,275 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $339,075 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,800 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $32,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $32,000 |
| REAL MEN REAL LEADERS INC | $30,000 |
| WESTERN KANSAS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE | $25,000 |
| FAMILY CRISIS SERVICES INC | $24,000 |
| COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER | $24,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $24,000 |
| FINNEY COUNTY RSVP | $22,000 |
| YMCA OF SOUTHWEST KANSAS INC | $20,875 |
| MILES OF SMILES | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHWEST KS | $19,600 |
| SPIRIT OF THE PLAINS CASA INC | $16,800 |
| KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FINNEY | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +22% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- FCFINNEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC9× · 2017–2025 · $243k · revenue +28%
- TRTHE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +19%
- RMREAL MEN REAL LEADERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $204k · revenue +454% · 45% of their budget
Funded once
- FCFINNEY COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION INCone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -12%
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.
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The children's advocacy center of kansas (cacks) is committed to securing appropriate resources for ensuring the healthy establishment and sustainability of kansas child advocacy centers and the kansas chapter. cacks is committed to…
Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…
Protecting children today for stronger families tomorrow.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
We inspire hope and well-being for people of all ages by providing counseling, education and support.
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
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The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League and the most unlike its peers is Real Men Real Leaders 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 41 years old; the field is 34. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 25 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 FINNEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds REAL MEN REAL LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Southwest Kansas Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Finney County Retired Senior Volunteer Program ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF THE PLAINS CASA INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Catholic Social Service Endowment Fund ↗
- Who funds MILES OF SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Western Kansas Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds FINNEY COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH COALITION INC ↗
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: Finnup Foundation · Western Kansas Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY · United Way of Dodge City Inc · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Finney County United Way Inc 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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