· Public charity
Greater Topeka Partnership Inc
To be the catalyst for economic prosperity within our community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $504k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PATTERSON FAMILY INFANT AND TODDLER CENTER LLC | $556,197 |
| THE LEARNING CENTER | $536,491 |
| GREATER TOPEKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $329,719 |
| SENT INC | $315,987 |
| T-ROCKS CHILD CARE CENTER | $315,632 |
| DOWNTOWN TOPEKA INC | $311,667 |
| SUSANNA WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH INC | $219,148 |
| GROWTH ORGANIZATION OF TOPEKASHAWNEE CO | $164,903 |
| BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC | $120,067 |
| CALVARY LUTHERAN LEARNING CENTER | $16,780 |
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 (FY24–24, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +89% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $892k 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
- DTDOWNTOWN TOPEKA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +61% · 55% of their budget
- GTGREATER TOPEKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +103% · 75% of their budget
- SISENT INC2× · 2023–2024 · $371k · revenue +89% · 35% of their budget
Funded once
- GTGREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $241k · revenue -64%
- CUCOUNTRYSIDE UNITED METHODIST PRESCHOOL INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +9%
- VTVISIT TOPEKA INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +25%
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 be the catalyst for economic prosperity within our community.
To promote area commerce
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
To raise and expend funds for the purposes of preserving, restoring, and improving buildings, land, streets, parks, monuments and other historical and cultural aspects of the downtown area of topeka, kansas.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Align resources and focus the community on common strategies that fast-forward economic growth in wichita and throughout south-central kansas. our work encompasses everything from creating a vibrant urban environment in downtown wichita to…
To increase business, employment, and investment in the greater omaha area.
Promote the Pittsburg, Kansas business community.
To prepare students for advanced education, successful careers and responsible citizenship through academic excellence and humanitarian ideals.
To improve the quality of life for residents of wichita county, ks through community and economic development activities.
All of Cornerstone efforts are directed toward interrupting the cycle of homelessness, providing decent, safe, accessible and affordable housing of choice to moderate and low-income households, and revitalizing Topeka neighborhoods.
The northland regional chamber of commerce promotes growth and development in the kansas city, missouri northland area by monitoring important issues,educating members, assisting support activities, and providing a unified voice for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co and the most unlike its peers is Countryside United Methodist Preschool Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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
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 GROWTH ORGANIZATION OF TOPEKASHAWNEE CO ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN TOPEKA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TOPEKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SENT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUILDING BLOCKS OF TOPEKA INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE UNITED METHODIST PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VISIT TOPEKA 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
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 Topeka Partnership Inc 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.