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Greater Salina Community Foundation

The mission is to improve lives and enrich communities.

$27M
Granted FY2025still arriving
328
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$4.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$45MEducation$34MAnimals$23MReligion$17MYouth Development$14MCommunity Improvement$9.8MArts & Culture$9.5MHuman Services$8.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 328 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 328 grants below total $24,089,115, the rows itemized in this filing. The $27,238,418 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,149,303 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k98 grants · $699k
  • $10k–50k163 grants · $3.3M
  • $50k–250k57 grants · $5.7M
  • $250k+10 grants · $14M
$14,401
Median grant
23
States reached
$319M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Spouse Abuse Sexual Assault Crisis Center: $51k → 11%THE MOSIAC FOUNDATION: $27k → 12%KANSAS SENIOR LIVING INC: $423k → 14%Hope for Home Ministries: $24k → 10%KSDS Inc: $28k → 10%American Red Cross of Greater Kansas: $65k → 16%KSDS Inc: $27k → 10%American Red Cross: $50k → 16%KSDS Inc: $25k → 10%American Red Cross of Greater Kansas: $40k → 16%DENVER RESCUE MISSION: $20k → 12%World Food Program USA: $110k → 14%PARKSIDE HOMES: $29k → 10%American Red Cross: $20k → 15%American Red Cross of Greater Kansas: $40k → 16%Parkside Homes: $24k → 10%American Red Cross of Greater Kansas: $40k → 16%World Food Program USA: $70k → 14%American Red Cross: $25k → 16%SMITH COUNTY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $40k → 11%Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas (DSNWK): $30k → 14%Salina Presbyterian Manor: $2.4M → 13%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $22k → 14%SPROUT HOUSE LEARNING CENTER: $107k → 10%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $21k → 14%Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas: $21k → 14%DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NW KANSAS INC: $21k → 14%Sprout House Learning Center Inc: $50k → 10%SunPorch of Smith County: $30k → 11%Smith County Child Development Center Inc: $24k → 11%Smith County Child Development Center: $20k → 11%PARKSIDE HOMES: $33k → 14%Concordia Senior Citizens Center: $26k → 13%Concordia Senior Citizens Center: $24k → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $171k → 13%Concordia Senior Citizens Center: $24k → 13%Concordia Senior Citizens Center: $20k → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $121k → 13%Concordia Senior Citizens Center: $19k → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $78k → 13%Salina Family YMCA: $77k → 13%Salina Family YMCA: $71k → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $65k → 13%Salina Family YMCA: $65k → 13%Salina Family YMCA: $47k → 13%Salina Family YMCA: $47k → 13%Salina Presbyterian Manor: $36k → 13%Martin Luther King Jr Child Development Center: $21k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$137M · 431 repeat orgs$6.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

431
241

Total granted

$137M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+6%

Still filing today

43%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • RH
    ROLLING HILLS ZOO FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +25% · 69% of their budget
  • BC
    BETHANY COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $17M · revenue +17%
  • TT
    TEEN TOWN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $12M · revenue +47% · 94% of their budget

Funded once

  • KS
    KANSAS SENIOR LIVING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $423k · revenue +34%
  • EC
    Evangelical Covenant Church
    one grant, 2021 · $387k
  • RC
    REVOLUTION CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
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
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
3
Rawlins County Dental Clinic Fund dba Northwest Smile Center

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.

Health
4
South Central Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
5
Salina Regional Health Center Inc

To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment

Health
6
Kansas Cooperative Council

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…

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7
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
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8
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
9
Kansas Health Institute

Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.

Science & Tech
10
The Kansas Rural Communities Foundation

Provide a vehicle by which individuals, families, businesses, and organizations can financially support the needs of their communities. solicit funds and educate potential donors about the advantages of giving for both the donor and their…

Community Improvement
11
Kansas Land Trust Inc

To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.

Environment
12
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Ffa Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

322 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. 322 of the 754 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.

48
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
75
Early backer (in before they grew)
312/322
Grantees still filing
202/322
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Catholic Foundation for Diocese of Salina: $8,006,562 · OtherCatholic Foundation for Diocese of Sa…EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH: $3,285,690 · OtherEVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCHCITY OF SALINA: $2,385,349 · OtherMcPherson County Community Foundation: $2,321,818 · OtherADORATIO FOUNDATION: $3,160,000 · OtherADORATIO FOUNDATION+132 more: $37,542,559 · Other+132 moreGREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,065,213 · Community ImprovementGREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $8,694,319 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHA…+4 more: $818,760 · Community ImprovementROLLING HILLS ZOO FOUNDATION: $22,233,167 · Arts & CultureROLLING HILLS ZOO…SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $910,246 · Arts & CultureSALINA ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION: $907,754 · Arts & Culture+10 more: $2,409,394 · Arts & Culture+10 moreBETHANY COLLEGE: $17,397,082 · EducationBETHANY COLLEGEKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $3,410,497 · EducationKANSAS WESLEYAN U…NORTH PARK UNIVERSITY: $1,666,000 · EducationNORTH PARK UNIVER…KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,186,759 · Education+15 more: $2,462,020 · Education+15 moreTEEN TOWN INC: $11,972,512 · Youth Development+1 more: $122,086 · Youth DevelopmentSALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,266,118 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $247,823 · Health+7 more: $922,973 · HealthPRESBYTERIAN MANORS INC: $2,403,209 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $743,089 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $505,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $473,183 · Human ServicesKANSAS SENIOR LIVING INC: $422,980 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $242,692 · Human Services+8 more: $1,003,371 · Human Services
Other$56,701,978Community Improvement$37,578,292Arts & Culture$26,460,561Education$26,122,358Youth Development$12,094,598Health$6,436,914Human Services$5,793,524

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 budgetGREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,065,213 over 4y, 71% of budgetROLLING HILLS ZOO FOUNDATION: $22,233,167 over 9y, 69% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $17,397,082 over 9y, 13% of budgetTEEN TOWN INC: $11,972,512 over 9y, 94% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $8,694,319 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Foundation for Diocese of Salina: $8,006,562 over 3y, 42% of budgetSALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $5,266,118 over 9y, 33% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $3,410,497 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetADORATIO FOUNDATION: $3,160,000 over 6y, 82% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN MANORS INC: $2,403,209 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMcPherson County Community Foundation: $2,321,818 over 5y, 20% of budgetNORTH PARK UNIVERSITY: $1,666,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Salina Community Foundation: $1,259,241 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc: $1,257,229 over 9y, 30% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,186,759 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSALINA TENNIS ALLIANCE INC: $1,093,954 over 2y, 50% of budgetSALINA SYMPHONY INC: $1,026,550 over 9y, 31% of budgetSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $910,246 over 9y, 18% of budgetSALINA ARTS AND HUMANITIES FOUNDATION: $907,754 over 9y, 48% of budgetPaul Carlson Medical Program Inc: $885,297 over 9y, 13% of budgetSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $865,947 over 9y, 8.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 2y, 52% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $743,089 over 9y, 6.3% of budgetUNION COLLEGE: $654,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetSALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $579,972 over 5y, 39% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC: $558,440 over 9y, 32% of budgetSTIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $553,040 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Council 192 Coronado Area: $551,314 over 9y, 9.2% of budgetSALINA INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $521,714 over 4y, 29% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $505,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $498,465 over 8y, 14% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $473,183 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIELAND MARKET INC: $445,523 over 3y, 60% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION: $444,104 over 9y, 44% of budgetKANSAS SENIOR LIVING INC: $422,980 over 1y, 15% of budgetSALINA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEINC: $380,358 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC: $348,156 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetASHBY HOUSE LTD: $348,021 over 9y, 21% of budgetSALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES INC: $327,320 over 2y, 56% of budgetSALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC: $324,900 over 7y, 16% of budgetKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC: $310,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetSALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC: $290,739 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetST JOHNS MILITARY SCHOOL HISTORICAL MUSEUM INC: $284,339 over 5y, 83% of budgetCLOUD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $260,771 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $247,823 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $242,692 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetCLOUD CO COMM RESOURCE COUNCIL INC: $234,606 over 9y, 21% of budgetYoung America's Foundation: $225,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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 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 ↗

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…Salina Regional Healt…Earl Bane FoundationMike Berkley Family F…Smoot Charitable Foun…Robert E and Patricia…Greater Northwest Kan…The Patterson Family …Verla Nesbitt Joscely…Kansas Association of…McCune & Middlekauff …Morrison Foundation T…
Dane G Hansen FoundationKS123.2× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Salina Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Salina Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
31report 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 754 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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