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Golden Belt Community Foundation
The Foundation's mission is to inspire individuals to collaborate and create a thriving future, fostering connections with family, friends, and neighbors, while creating legacies that endure.
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.
The 54 grants below total $1,700,643 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,946,446 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,245,803 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $634k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $670k
- $250k+1 grant · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Great Bend Recreation Commission Foundation | $296,762 |
| University of Southern California Sol Price School of Public Policy | $129,600 |
| Great Bend Alive Inc | $127,362 |
| Barton Community College | $113,870 |
| Golden Belt Humane & Animal Welfare Society Inc | $101,929 |
| First Christian Church | $74,905 |
| Barton County Historical Society | $71,949 |
| University of Kansas Hospital Authority | $50,182 |
| Great Bend Zoological Society Inc | $49,611 |
| Prince of Peace Catholic Church | $37,209 |
| Live Like Jesus Today Ministries Inc | $32,208 |
| Mass General Development Office Community Fundraising | $30,000 |
| Holy Family School | $29,571 |
| Stafford County Economic Development Inc | $29,124 |
| Community Food Bank of Barton County Inc | $27,535 |
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, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
59 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 11 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $282k 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
- GBGOLDEN BELT HUMANE AND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY9× · 2017–2025 · $812k · revenue +2% · 27% of their budget
- BCBARTON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $474k · revenue +384% · 36% of their budget
- GBGREAT BEND RECREATION COMMISSION FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $393k · revenue ×187 · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue -9%
- ABADVANCING BARTON COUNTY CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $350k · revenue +49% · 37% of their budget
- KWKANSAS WHEAT COMMISSION RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -91%
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.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
To educate and develop the economic, civic, cultural, and social welfare for the Barton County region.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
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
Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…
To strengthen the university and communities that have touched the lives of wu alumni and friends, the mission of the washburn university charitable gift fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable…
The primary purpose of the Foundation is to provide financial support for charitable and educational purposes by making distributions and grants to elementary, secondary and post secondary students, teachers, professors, administrators and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stafford County Economic Development Inc and the most unlike its peers is Golden Belt Humane and Animal Welfare Society. 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 34 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 103 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 GOLDEN BELT HUMANE AND ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARTON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT BEND RECREATION COMMISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING BARTON COUNTY CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WHEAT COMMISSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARTON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds DELTA UPSILON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS OIL & GAS MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds St Rose Health Center ↗
- Who funds GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dechant Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREAT BEND ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds USD 428 EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KS DREAM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds KANS FOR KIDS FIGHTING CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF BARTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER DIVERSIFIED SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALMOST HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas ↗
- Who funds STAFFORD COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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: Dorothy M Morrison Foundation · United Way of Central Kansas Inc · Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Golden Belt 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.