· Community foundation
Greater Salina Community Foundation
The mission is to improve lives and enrich communities.
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 328 grants below total $24,089,115 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $27,238,418 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,149,303 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 $10k98 grants · $699k
- $10k–50k163 grants · $3.3M
- $50k–250k57 grants · $5.7M
- $250k+10 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bethany College | $4,269,646 |
| Rolling Hills Zoo | $3,060,279 |
| Salina Presbyterian Manor | $2,367,209 |
| TeenTown Inc | $2,130,666 |
| Greater Salina Community Foundation | $1,007,715 |
| Theatre Salina | $378,825 |
| USD 307 Ell-Saline Schools | $311,000 |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $299,637 |
| Adoratio Foundation | $290,000 |
| Salina Innovation Foundation | $258,055 |
| The Ark Church | $238,600 |
| Prairieland Market | $237,649 |
| Christ Cathedral | $224,900 |
| Evangelical Covenant Church of America | $220,500 |
| Paul Carlson Partnership | $220,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +6% for the ones you funded once.
431 repeat relationships — 237 still active in FY2025, 194 since wound down; 64 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- RHROLLING HILLS ZOO FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +25% · 69% of their budget
- BCBETHANY COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +17%
- TTTEEN TOWN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +47% · 94% of their budget
Funded once
- KSKANSAS SENIOR LIVING INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $423k · revenue +34%
- ECEvangelical Covenant Churchone grant, 2021 · $387k
- RCREVOLUTION CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $250k
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.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Continue to operate a self-sustaining, state of the art dental clinic that serves all patients including those who are insured, under insured, uninsured or medicade participants for residents of northwest kansas and surrounding areas.
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.
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is St John's Missionary Baptist Church. 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 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
322 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. 322 of the 754 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 GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROLLING HILLS ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TEEN TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Catholic Foundation for Diocese of Salina ↗
- Who funds SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ADORATIO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN MANORS INC ↗
- Who funds McPherson County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA TENNIS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Paul Carlson Medical Program Inc ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas ↗
- Who funds UNION COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC ↗
- Who funds STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boy Scouts of America Council 192 Coronado Area ↗
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 · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation · Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · The Patterson Family Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust
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 Salina 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.