How much does Finnup Foundation give?

Finnup Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $1,009,257 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Finnup Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (23%), Human Services (20%), Recreation & Sports (15%).

Who are Finnup Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Garden City ($1.1M), Ktwu ($1.0M), Community Congregational Church ($793k).

Does Finnup Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Finnup Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Western Kansas Community Foundation, Finney County United Way Inc, Kansas Health Foundation.

Where is Finnup Foundation based?

Finnup Foundation is based in KS.

Finnup Foundation

Finnup Foundation at a glance

· Public charity

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.

$1.0M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$300k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.8MHuman Services$1.6MRecreation & Sports$1.2MReligion$815kYouth Development$716kArts & Culture$680kPublic Safety & Disaster$325kCrime & Legal$297kOther$0

02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $34k
$10k–50k23 grants · $456k
$50k–250k5 grants · $520k
$250k+1 grant · $300k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$32M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Garden City Community College Endowment Association	$300,000
COMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH	$130,000
CITY OF GARDEN CITY	$130,000
Washburn University	$130,000
The Salvation Army	$65,000
Russell Child Development Center	$65,000
Spirit of the Plains CASA	$33,381
Finney County Committee on Aging	$30,000
Real Men Real Leaders	$30,000
Garden City Arts	$30,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF FINNEY & KEARNY COUNTIES	$30,000
Kearny County Hospital	$30,000
KANZA Society Inc dba High Plains Public Radio	$25,000
Smoky Hills Public Television Corp	$25,000
Kansas Food Bank	$22,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$7.7M · 38 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.7M

$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

-3%

Still filing today

71%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TR
THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
7× · 2017–2024 · $563k · revenue +19%
GC
GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION
6× · 2017–2024 · $352k · revenue +33% · 28% of their budget
BB
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $319k · revenue +22%

Funded once

SU
STEPPING UP INC
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -100%
UM
UNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC
one grant, 2022 · $9k · revenue -3%
OO
OASIS OF PEACE
one grant, 2018 · $9k

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.

04Its field

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.

North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc

Community Improvement

Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation

Education

Kansas Association of Conservation Districts

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

Community Improvement

Kansas Recovery Network

Health

Kansas Coalition for Common Sense Inc

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…

Civil Rights

Kansas Cooperative Council

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…

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Konza Prairie Community Health Center Inc

Provide physician, dental and related healthcare services through clinics located in geary and riley county, kansas.

Health

Central Kansas Court Appointed Special Advocates

Provides a voice for abused and neglected children who are under the legal protection of the court system

Civil Rights

North Central Kansas Casa Inc

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…

Crime & Legal

Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health

Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture

Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League; 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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 45 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

20/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,292,445Human Services$1,587,796Education$524,500Arts & Culture$238,200Food & Nutrition$117,500Youth Development$107,000Community Improvement$44,900

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.

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.

Western Kansas Community FoundationKS64× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Finnup Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Finnup Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home