· Community foundation
Greater Manhattan Community Foundation
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life in the greater manhattan, kansas area, both today and in the future by enabling donors to fulfill their charitable desires, building a permanent endowment, facilitating prudent management and care of funds, and meeting needs through grants, awards, and scholarships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 304 grants below total $19,934,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $21,188,293 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,253,993 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $416k
- $10k–50k176 grants · $3.7M
- $50k–250k56 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+14 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILDCAT NIL FOUNDATION | $2,557,667 |
| MUSEUM OF AUTOMOTIVE ICONS INC DBA MIDWEST DREAM CAR COLLECTION | $2,269,694 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $913,300 |
| J H ISRAEL | $825,000 |
| SABETHA HISTORY CENTER FOUNDATION | $780,000 |
| MANHATTAN AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $778,775 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MANHATTAN | $392,412 |
| MANHATTAN EMERGENCY SHELTER INC | $386,765 |
| NO STONE UNTURNED FOUNDATION INC | $366,340 |
| FLINT HILLS BREADBASKET | $327,400 |
| BIG LAKES FOUNDATION INC | $326,000 |
| WAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUND | $325,000 |
| PRAIRIEWOOD CONNECT FOUNDATION | $305,000 |
| MANHATTAN-OGDEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $281,826 |
| MUSEUM OF ART AND LIGHT INC | $246,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
238 repeat relationships — 198 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 100 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.2M 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +107%
- WNWILDCAT NIL FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +385% · 67% of their budget
- NSNO STONE UNTURNED FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +224%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INCone grant, 2021 · $844k · revenue -99% · 67% of their budget
- KMKANZA MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $231k · revenue +51%
- EJEDWARD JONES FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $159k
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 Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
The Foundation's mission is to enhance the life, culture and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Edward Jones Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.2% 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.
293 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. 293 of the 476 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MUSEUM OF AUTOMOTIVE ICONS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDCAT NIL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NO STONE UNTURNED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE USD 113 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN-OGDEN PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Manhattan Area Technical College Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds JH ISRAEL ↗
- Who funds Big Lakes Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF ART AND LIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds Manhattan Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FLINT HILLS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds FLINTHILLS BREADBASKET INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD'S CROSSING ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FARM BUREAU LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KONZA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds CLOUD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD HOMECARE & HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds SUNSET ZOOLOGICAL PARK AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION TRUST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID-WEST EDUCATIONAL CENTER 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: Manhattan Fund - Caroline F Peine Charitable · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Konza United Way Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Courtney S Turner Charitable Trust · Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust · Memorial Hospital Association Inc · Emporia Community Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Patterson Family Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans
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 Greater Manhattan 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.