· Public charity
Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc
To build awareness of the struggles for freedom in eastern kansas and western missouri.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $287k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $186,181 |
| LECOMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100,653 |
| CLINTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $29,821 |
| EUDORA AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $14,605 |
| SANTA FE HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,330 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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 +81% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DCDouglas County Historical Society9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +30% · 41% of their budget
- CLCLINTON LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +81% · 83% of their budget
- KCKANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $206k · revenue +355%
Funded once
- FCFranklin County Historical Societyone grant, 2017 · $128k · revenue -25% · 40% of their budget
- HEHERNLY ENVIRONMENTAL INCone grant, 2023 · $27k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $26k
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.
Historical museum and library. preservation of historical information and materials relating to barton county kansas.
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.
Association to support kansas museums
Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge which will esstablish and illustrate the history of kittson county.
Preserve items of historical value and provide education for the people residing in lane and surrounding counties of western kansas.
Preservation of historical records and artifacts of morton county, kansas
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
Public charity
To identify, collect, preserve, interpret, and disseminate material and information pertaining to wyandotte county history in order to assist the public in understanding, appreciating and assisting in the preservation of the heritage of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grassland Heritage Foundation. 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 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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, 2017–2025.
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. 19 of the 37 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 Douglas County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Lecompton Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CLINTON LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
- Who funds Franklin County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FREE STATE CAPITOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE KAW INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSLAND HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RILEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HARRY S TRUMAN LIBRARY INSTITUTE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds BAKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Haskell Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BANNER CREEK SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Mitchell Prairie Guards Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAHAFFIE STAGECOACH STOP AND FARM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORNALL-MAJORS HOUSE MUSEUMS 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Humanities Kansas Inc · Midcontinent Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area 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.