· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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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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Foster and support amateur sports competition
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How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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