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Freestate Community Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AUBURN COMMUNITY CENTER | $9,050 |
| OSKALOOSA RURAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT | $7,000 |
| HELP OVERPOPULATION OF PETS ECONOMICALLY INC | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS | $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 |
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.
Your 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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Freestate Community Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +13% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Northeast Kansas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Early Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 85 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 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 JEFFERSON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY 4H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOORSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds HELP OVERPOPULATION OF PETS ECONOMICALLY 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: 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
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 Freestate Community Foundation 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.
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