· Community foundation
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 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.
How this is measured
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 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +29% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 103 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Golden Belt Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Golden Belt Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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