Kansas · Private foundation
Freestate Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $37k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,700
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $9,050
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $65k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Freestate Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $37k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $29k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $51k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $51k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $85k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $100k | 75% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $89k | 79% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $60k | 95% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oskaloosa Rural Housing Development | $38,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $36,500 | 5 | 0% |
| God's Storehouse Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 28% |
| Capper Foundation | $13,816 | 4 | 0% |
| Northeast Kansas Library Foundation Inc | $13,300 | 2 | 5% |
| The Race Against Breast Cancer Inc | $12,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Pantry of Hope Inc | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Dover Community Center Inc | $9,752 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas State University | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brothers in Blue Reentry Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oskaloosa Rural Housing Development | $38,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $36,500 | 5 | 0% |
| God's Storehouse Inc | $18,000 | 4 | 28% |
| Capper Foundation | $13,816 | 4 | 0% |
| Northeast Kansas Library Foundation Inc | $13,300 | 2 | 5% |
| The Race Against Breast Cancer Inc | $12,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Pantry of Hope Inc | $11,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Dover Community Center Inc | $9,752 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas State University | $9,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Brothers in Blue Reentry Inc | $8,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Jefferson County Historical Society Inc | $6,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Douglas County 4h Foundation Inc | $6,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Jefferson County Humane Society | $6,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Helping Hands Humane Society Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Silver Lake Usd 372 Public School Foundation Inc | $5,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Help Overpopulation of Pets Economically Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Doorstep Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hope Inc | $4,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Headquarters Kansas Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Silver Lake Public Library Foundation Inc | $3,120 | 1 | n/a |
| Topeka North Outreach Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Perry-Lecompton Community Library | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Early Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Meriden Antique Engine and Threshers Association I | $2,500 | 1 | 22% |
| The Topeka YMCA Foundation (2303-SO1) | $2,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Topeka Community Cat Fix Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Pawsitively Jefferson County Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leavenworth County Humane Society Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| House of Hope Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Lets Help Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Stull Community of Faith Church | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Leavenworth Animal Welfare Society Inc | $860 | 1 | 1% |
| Little Stranger Christian Church Society | $250 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Freestate Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 19 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Topeka Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Schwartz Foundation · Blanche Bryden Foundation · Global Impact · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Greater Horizons
How this is measured
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About Freestate Community Foundation
- How much does Freestate Community Foundation give?
- Freestate Community Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $37,175 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Freestate Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Education (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Freestate Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Oskaloosa Rural Housing Development ($38k), Catholic Charities Inc ($37k), God's Storehouse Inc ($18k).
- Does Freestate Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Freestate Community Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Freestate Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Topeka Community Foundation, Commerce Bancshares Foundation, United Way of Kaw Valley Inc.
- Where is Freestate Community Foundation based?
- Freestate Community Foundation is based in KS.
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