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Finnup Foundation
The Finnup Foundation Trust was established in 1977 by siblings Frederick Finnup and Isabel Finnup, who carried on the legacy of generosity that was modeled by their father, George Finnup, and their grandfather, Frederick Finnup.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $456k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $520k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Garden City Community College Endowment Association | $300,000 |
| CITY OF GARDEN CITY | $130,000 |
| Washburn University | $130,000 |
| COMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $130,000 |
| Russell Child Development Center | $65,000 |
| The Salvation Army | $65,000 |
| Spirit of the Plains CASA | $33,381 |
| Garden City Arts | $30,000 |
| Finney County Committee on Aging | $30,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FINNEY & KEARNY COUNTIES | $30,000 |
| Kearny County Hospital | $30,000 |
| Real Men Real Leaders | $30,000 |
| KANZA Society Inc dba High Plains Public Radio | $25,000 |
| Smoky Hills Public Television Corp | $25,000 |
| Kansas Food Bank | $22,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- TRTHE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC7× · 2017–2024 · $563k · revenue +19%
- GCGARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2024 · $352k · revenue +33% · 28% of their budget
- BBBig Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- SUSTEPPING UP INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -100%
- OOOASIS OF PEACEone grant, 2018 · $9k
- UMUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -3%
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.
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
Providing innovative research, message guidance, communication training, communication expertise,and collaborative strategies to aligned organizations to grow their capacity and improve collaborationand coordination among partner groups in…
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
Provide physician, dental and related healthcare services through clinics located in geary and riley county, kansas.
Provides a voice for abused and neglected children who are under the legal protection of the court system
The mission of casa is to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courts. casa promotes and supports quality volunteer representation for children in order to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing…
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 45 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 THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF THE PLAINS CASA INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds KANZA Society Inc ↗
- Who funds SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FINNEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds THE FINNEY COUNTY KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds REAL MEN REAL LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Southwest Kansas Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS AGRICULTURE AND RURAL LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS MAKERSPACE ↗
- Who funds TUMBLEWEED FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WILD HEART TEACHER ↗
- Who funds New Hope on the Plains Inc ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds Western Kansas Community Foundation ↗
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: Western Kansas Community Foundation · Finney County United Way Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust · SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Dodge City Inc · Reeve Family Foundation · Baughman Foundation · Cooper Clark 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 Finnup 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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