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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.

$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
116
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$165k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$17MEducation$2.9MArts & Culture$1.4MCommunity Improvement$1.4MHealth$1.0MPublic Benefit$997kReligion$545kRecreation & Sports$491kOther$0
02FY2024 · 116 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 116 grants below total $2,243,849, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,194,317 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $950,468 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $297k
  • $10k–50k70 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $641k
$11,236
Median grant
4
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $9k → 16%NEX-GENERATION ROUND UP FOR YOUTH INC: $5k → 16%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $17k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $9k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $9k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $9k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $8k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $6k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $6k → 14%HIGH POINT ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $20k → 10%PHILLIPSBURG CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $13k → 12%PHILLIPSBURG CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $12k → 12%HUCK BOYD FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%BARGAIN BOX INC: $10k → 14%CHEYENNE COUNTY VILLAGE INC: $11k → 13%MIRIAMS HOPE: $10k → 14%HIGH POINT ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $11k → 10%HOSPICE SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $6k → 12%MIRIAMS HOPE: $10k → 14%BARGAIN BOX INC: $10k → 14%NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE: $9k → 10%QUILTS OF HONOR AMERICA: $5k → 12%HIGH POINT ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $6k → 10%CHEYENNE COUNTY VILLAGE INC: $7k → 13%CHEYENNE COUNTY VILLAGE INC: $6k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 150 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

150
112

Total granted

$25M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

37%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $635k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BC
    BIRD CITY CENTURY II DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15M · revenue +967% · 96% of their budget
  • TS
    TRI STATE ANTIQUE ENGINE & THRESHERS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $275k · revenue +373% · 83% of their budget
  • GL
    GROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +26% · 31% of their budget

Funded once

  • RC
    RINGNECK CLASSIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $221k · revenue +80%
  • HC
    HOXIESHERIDAN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2019 · $60k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $43k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Kansas Grazing Lands Coalition Inc

To regenerate kansas grazing land resources through cooperative management, economics, ecology, production, education and technical assistance programs.

Food & Nutrition
3
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
—
4
Ness County Healthcare Foundation

Providing support for ness county hospital by serving as a fundraising organization for the hospital.

—
5
Pivotal Health & Wellness Inc

Provide healthcare services and resources to courtland kansas and the surrounding rural communities.

Health
6
The Cowley County Historical Society

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.

—
7
Kansas Farmers Union Foundation Inc
Community Improvement
8
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
9
Lincoln County Economic Dev Foundat

To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, ks

Community Improvement
10
Nemaha County Historical Society

To preserve and maintain the history of nemaha county kanas

—
11
Barber County Development Inc

Economic development

Community Improvement
12
Tonganoxie Senior Citizens Donna Wiley
Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas County Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

100 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/100
Grantees still filing
64/100
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIRD CITY CENTURY II DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $14,968,660 · PhilanthropyBIRD CITY CENTURY II DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION+8 more: $1,179,906 · Philanthropy+8 moreUSD #407 RUSSELL COUNTY: $643,042 · OtherUSD #407 RUSSELL COUNTYCITY OF BIRD CITY: $326,225 · Other+152 more: $7,333,833 · Other+152 moreGROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $262,370 · Community ImprovementLOGAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FND INC: $210,207 · Community ImprovementRUSSELL DEVELOPMENT INC: $201,000 · Community ImprovementWESTERN VISTA BUILDING COMPLEX INC: $127,000 · Community ImprovementSherman County Community Services Inc: $82,358 · Community ImprovementGRAINFIELD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INC: $69,530 · Community ImprovementNorton Development Corp: $66,470 · Community ImprovementAREA COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION INC: $60,917 · Community Improvement+3 more: $76,112 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET ART COUNCIL INC: $197,402 · Arts & CultureSHERIDAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $149,084 · Arts & CultureCHEYENNE CENTER FOR CREATIVITY INC: $83,677 · Arts & CultureWESTERN PLAINS ARTS ASSOCIATION: $74,500 · Arts & CultureWILD WEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $51,670 · Arts & CultureLUCAS ARTS & HUMANITIES: $45,718 · Arts & CultureGOODLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC: $40,820 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $15,000 · Arts & CultureWest Central Kansas Association Inc: $107,577 · HealthGREAT PLAINS OF CHEYENNE COUNTY INC: $94,683 · HealthRawlins County Health Center Foundation Inc: $35,235 · HealthRAWLINS COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC FUND dba NORTHWEST SMILE CENTER: $25,275 · HealthPhillips County Retirement Corp: $19,859 · HealthPHILLIPS COUNTY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $17,430 · HealthHEARTLAND RURAL COUNSELING SERVICE: $15,449 · HealthGOVE COUNTY ELDERCARE INC: $15,000 · HealthKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $12,644 · HealthNORTON REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $12,592 · HealthNORTHWEST KANSAS DISTRICT FREE FAIR INC: $95,419 · Recreation & SportsGOODLAND ACTIVITIES CENTER: $87,249 · Recreation & SportsTopside Aquatics Inc: $62,998 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $38,200 · Recreation & SportsGRAHAM COUNTY RECREATION COMMISSION INC: $22,500 · Recreation & SportsCASTLE ROCK HEALTH & FITNESS INC: $15,250 · Recreation & SportsRINGNECK CLASSIC INC: $221,200 · AnimalsNorthwest Kansas Animal Shelter Inc: $40,625 · Animals
Philanthropy$16,148,566Other$8,303,100Community Improvement$1,155,964Arts & Culture$657,871Health$355,744Recreation & Sports$321,616Animals$261,825

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBIRD CITY CENTURY II DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $14,968,660 over 2y, 96% of budgetNCCF PROPERTY INVESTMENTS INC: $529,643 over 7y, 56% of budgetTRI STATE ANTIQUE ENGINE & THRESHERS ASSOCIATION INC: $275,243 over 6y, 83% of budgetPHILLIPS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $269,981 over 7y, 11% of budgetGROW LOGAN COUNTY FOUNDATION: $262,370 over 8y, 31% of budgetLOGAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FND INC: $210,207 over 2y, 56% of budgetRUSSELL DEVELOPMENT INC: $201,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetMAIN STREET ART COUNCIL INC: $197,402 over 6y, 52% of budgetTHOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $154,921 over 7y, 15% of budgetSHERIDAN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED: $149,084 over 8y, 63% of budgetFORT WALLACE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $145,864 over 8y, 32% of budgetWestern Kansas Child Advocacy Center: $133,900 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetWESTERN VISTA BUILDING COMPLEX INC: $127,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCOUGAR CUB DAYCARE INC: $125,638 over 5y, 64% of budgetWALLANCE COUNTY FOUNDATION: $118,778 over 7y, 44% of budgetWest Central Kansas Association Inc: $107,577 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHWEST KANSAS DISTRICT FREE FAIR INC: $95,419 over 7y, 58% of budgetGREAT PLAINS OF CHEYENNE COUNTY INC: $94,683 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGOODLAND ACTIVITIES CENTER: $87,249 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetCHEYENNE CENTER FOR CREATIVITY INC: $83,677 over 4y, 31% of budgetSherman County Community Services Inc: $82,358 over 7y, 37% of budgetWESTERN PLAINS ARTS ASSOCIATION: $74,500 over 8y, 19% of budgetGRAINFIELD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INC: $69,530 over 6y, 20% of budgetNorton Development Corp: $66,470 over 4y, 89% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC: $65,027 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTopside Aquatics Inc: $62,998 over 3y, 54% of budgetAREA COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION INC: $60,917 over 4y, 37% of budgetGRAHAM COUNTY AUTO AND ART MUSEUM: $53,865 over 3y, 32% of budgetWILD WEST HISTORICAL FOUNDATION INC: $51,670 over 5y, 14% of budgetLUCAS ARTS & HUMANITIES: $45,718 over 2y, 17% of budgetGRAHAM COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $44,395 over 3y, 18% of budgetGOODLAND ARTS COUNCIL INC: $40,820 over 4y, 28% of budgetNorthwest Kansas Animal Shelter Inc: $40,625 over 6y, 56% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $39,105 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL ARTS COUNCIL: $38,400 over 2y, 24% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS KANSAS INC: $38,200 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $38,181 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCDONALD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $36,500 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetHIGH POINT ADVOCACY AND RESOURCE CENTER INC: $36,161 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetRawlins County Health Center Foundation Inc: $35,235 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetLEAP OF FAITHE FOUNDATION: $31,910 over 2y, 54% of budgetBULL CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $31,884 over 2y, 13% of budgetTOPSIDE MANOR INC: $29,747 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZENS FOUNDATION: $27,017 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE LOGAN CO HEALTHCARE FND INC: $25,503 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetRAWLINS COUNTY DENTAL CLINIC FUND dba NORTHWEST SMILE CENTER: $25,275 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPHILLIPSBURG CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $24,280 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCHEYENNE COUNTY VILLAGE INC: $24,201 over 3y, 0.3% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Dane G Hansen Foundat…Greater Salina Commun…The Patterson Family …Bird City Century II …Sunflower Foundation …Kansas Health Foundat…Kansas Association of…Patterson Family Foun…Sarver Charitable Tru…The Pete Henry Founda…Seele FoundationNorthwest Kansas Area…
Dane G Hansen FoundationKS101.1× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 309 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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