· Public charity
Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co
Go topeka creates county-wide economic success for all companies and citizens through implementation of an aggressive economic development strategy that capitalizes on the unique strengths of the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $322,346 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $487,911 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $165,565 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 $10k6 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GREATER TOPEKA PARNERSHIP INC | $54,627 |
| ADVISORS EXCEL LLC | $41,250 |
| SEISMI INC | $17,500 |
| ARCH PET FOOD | $15,000 |
| COREFIRST BANK | $12,500 |
| RIGHT COAST HEMP LLC | $11,650 |
| STORMONT VAIL HEALTHCARE INC | $11,250 |
| REVELATIONS EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY INC OF SWF | $11,244 |
| KANSAS DEPT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENT | $9,325 |
| 5 ELEMENTS FOOD THERAPY | $8,000 |
| FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF TOPEKA | $7,500 |
| DISCOVERY FURNITURE INC | $7,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM ST FRANCIS CAMPUS | $7,500 |
| ISOMARK | $7,500 |
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 (FY18–18, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 36% of Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +8% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $208k 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
- KKTWU5× · 2018–2022 · $550k
- GTGREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue -55% · 52% of their budget
- GTGREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP INC3× · 2020–2024 · $167k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- DTDOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $1.3M · revenue -46% · 72% of their budget
- COCITY OF TOPEKAone grant, 2019 · $870k
- NTNORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INCone grant, 2019 · $644k · revenue -77% · 46% of their budget
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.
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Go topeka creates county-wide economic success for all companies and citizens through implementation of an aggressive economic development strategy that capitalizes on the unique strengths of the community.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Topeka Partnership Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stormont-Vail Healthcare Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 164 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 DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC JAYHAWK THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Stormont-Vail Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Topeka Community Foundation · Stormont-Vail Foundation · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co 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.