· Community foundation
Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation
Our mission is to empower our donors, affiliates and charitable partners through education, stewardship and regional collaboration, to create thriving communities and impact present and future generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 116 grants below total $2,243,849 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,194,317 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $950,468 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 $10k41 grants · $297k
- $10k–50k70 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k5 grants · $641k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USD #407 RUSSELL COUNTY | $164,589 |
| LOGAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC | $152,405 |
| USD #294 DECATUR COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $149,428 |
| WEST CENTRAL KANSAS ASSOCIATION INC | $107,577 |
| PHILLIPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $66,632 |
| RUSSELL RECREATION COMMISSION | $44,955 |
| USD #274 OAKLEY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $42,056 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,226 |
| CITY OF OBERLIN | $38,473 |
| LUCAS ARTS AND HUMANITIES COUNCIL INC | $37,525 |
| RAWLINS COUNTY CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $34,546 |
| THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $33,784 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,250 |
| ST WENCESLAUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $30,000 |
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, $234k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
150 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 80 since wound down; 43 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $635k 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
- BCBIRD CITY CENTURY II DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · $15M · revenue +967% · 96% of their budget
- TSTRI STATE ANTIQUE ENGINE & THRESHERS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $275k · revenue +373% · 83% of their budget
- GLGROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +26% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- RCRINGNECK CLASSIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $221k · revenue +80%
- HCHOXIESHERIDAN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $60k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $43k
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 regenerate kansas grazing land resources through cooperative management, economics, ecology, production, education and technical assistance programs.
To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.
Provide healthcare services and resources to courtland kansas and the surrounding rural communities.
Providing support for ness county hospital by serving as a fundraising organization for the hospital.
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
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
To preserve and maintain the history of nemaha county kanas
Economic development
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Leap of Faithe Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 35. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
100 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. 100 of the 309 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 BIRD CITY CENTURY II DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NCCF PROPERTY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds TRI STATE ANTIQUE ENGINE & THRESHERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RINGNECK CLASSIC INC ↗
- Who funds LOGAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FND INC ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET ART COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FORT WALLACE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds WESTERN VISTA BUILDING COMPLEX INC ↗
- Who funds COUGAR CUB DAYCARE INC ↗
- Who funds WALLANCE COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds West Central Kansas Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST KANSAS DISTRICT FREE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS OF CHEYENNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODLAND ACTIVITIES CENTER ↗
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: Dane G Hansen Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · The Patterson Family Foundation · Bird City Century II Development Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Kansas Health Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Patterson Family Foundation · Sarver Charitable Trust · The Pete Henry Foundation · Seele Foundation · Northwest Kansas Area Transit Coordinating Council Inc
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 Northwest Kansas 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.