· Private foundation
Freestate Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN COMMUNITY CENTER | $9,050 |
| OSKALOOSA RURAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT | $7,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS | $5,000 |
| HELP OVERPOPULATION OF PETS ECONOMICALLY INC | $5,000 |
| JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $3,700 |
| RACE AGAINST BREAST CANCER | $3,000 |
| JARBALO COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH | $1,750 |
| SILVER LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,675 |
| STULL COMMUNITY OF FAITH CHURCH | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Freestate Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 95%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +13% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OROSKALOOSA RURAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT3× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +0%
- GSGod's Storehouse Inc4× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +65% · 28% of their budget
- CFCAPPER FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $14k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- JCJEFFERSON COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 9one grant, 2019 · $25k
- VFValley Falls Recreation Commissionone grant, 2018 · $10k
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
The humane society of southwest missouri is one of the largest open admission, no kill shelters in southwest missouri. it is dedicated to helping sick, injured and abandoned dogs and cats find their forever homes. for over 60 years the…
Not-for-profit humane society
Provide shelter, care, and adoption for rescued dogs.
To provide care and assistance to animals that are neglected or abandoned.
The foundation exists to help ensure that animal welfare organizations, that care for the needs of homeless, neglected, and disadvantage pets, maximize their lifesaving potential.
The mission of the humane society of jefferson county is to improve the lives of animals in need through compassionate care, adoption, advocacy and education while also inspiring humane communities that foster kindness and respect for all.
The sheltering of this and surrounding communities' temporarily homeless animals, finding suitable permanent homes for them, and reuniting lost pets with their families. educating the public on responsible pet ownership.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Sheltering and adoption of abandoned animals
The lawrence community shelter is the only emergency homeless shelter serving lawrence and douglas county in kansas. our mission is to provide a safe shelter and comprehensive services and programs in order to set people experiencing or at…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 85 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds OSKALOOSA RURAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds God's Storehouse Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST KANSAS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RACE AGAINST BREAST CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds BROTHERS IN BLUE REENTRY INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY 4H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OVERPOPULATION OF PETS ECONOMICALLY INC ↗
- Who funds DOORSTEP INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Freestate Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freestate Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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