How much does Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc give?

Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc reported 5 grants totaling $337,590 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (87%), Environment (4%), Science & Tech (3%).

Who are Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Douglas County Historical Society ($2.3M), Lecompton Historical Society Inc ($766k), Clinton Lake Historical Society Inc ($261k).

Does Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Douglas County Community Foundation, The Sunderland Foundation.

Where is Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc based?

Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc is based in KS.

Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc

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· Public charity

Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc

To build awareness of the struggles for freedom in eastern kansas and western missouri.

$338k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$186k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.2MEnvironment$175kScience & Tech$143kReligion$114kEducation$85kPublic Benefit$22kMembership Benefit$13kRecreation & Sports$10kOther$0

02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k2 grants · $44k
$50k–250k2 grants · $287k

$29,821

Median grant

States reached

$620k

Total assets

Largest grants
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

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.4M · 17 repeat orgs$378k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +188% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.4M

$378k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+188%

-5%

Still filing today

59%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationScience & TechEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

DC
Douglas County Historical Society
9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +30% · 41% of their budget
CL
CLINTON LAKE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +81% · 83% of their budget
KC
KANSAS CITY MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC
4× · 2017–2020 · $206k · revenue +355%

Funded once

FC
Franklin County Historical Society
one grant, 2017 · $128k · revenue -25% · 40% of their budget
HE
HERNLY ENVIRONMENTAL INC
one grant, 2023 · $27k
FU
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
one grant, 2019 · $26k

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.

Barton County Historical Society

Historical museum and library. preservation of historical information and materials relating to barton county kansas.

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The Cowley County Historical Society

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.

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Kansas Museums Association

Association to support kansas museums

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Kittson County Historical Society

Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge which will esstablish and illustrate the history of kittson county.

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Lane County Historical Society

Preserve items of historical value and provide education for the people residing in lane and surrounding counties of western kansas.

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Morton County Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical records and artifacts of morton county, kansas

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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

Hayslope Preservation Historic Fund

Public charity

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Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc

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Wyandotte County Historical Society and Museum

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…

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Wasco Co Historical Museum

Arts & Culture

Kansas Oil Museum Inc

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 37 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)

18/19

Grantees still filing

12/19

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,382,419Arts & Culture$1,100,997Science & Tech$142,590Environment$110,710Education$76,178Recreation & Sports$10,000

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO21.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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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

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home