· Private foundation
Hilda Smith Permanent Scholarship Endowment
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $4,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,100 |
| LOGAN COUNTY HOSPITAL | $3,200 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| BETHANY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS | $1,000 |
| KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| SALINA AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 50% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2020–2025 · $29k
- FPFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH6× · 2020–2025 · $29k
- COCOUNTY OF LOGAN - LOGAN COUNTY HOSPITAL6× · 2020–2025 · $23k
Funded once
- ESEMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $3k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- CCCLOUD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
5 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. 5 of the 23 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.
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: Farmers Alliance Companies Charitable Foundation · Rose Spurrier Scholarship Fund · Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Kansas Independent College Association · The Pete Henry Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hilda Smith Permanent Scholarship Endowment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hilda Smith Permanent Scholarship Endowment. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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