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Humanities Kansas Inc

The mission of humanities kansas, inc.

$400k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.3MEducation$203kPublic Benefit$35kScience & Tech$27kFood & Nutrition$20kRecreation & Sports$19kCivil Rights$15kEnvironment$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $153,228 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $399,807 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $246,579 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 $10k2 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $134k
$11,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE FREE STATE CAPITOL$15,000
FORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY$14,103
BLACK AMERICAN BLUEPRINT COLLECTIVE$13,850
TALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION$13,750
NICODEMUS HISTORICAL SOCIETY$13,258
NORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INC$12,235
EISENHOWER FOUNDATION$11,250
WYANDOT NATION OF KANSAS$10,850
SALINA MEDIA CONNECTION$10,146
JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU$10,000
JOHNSON COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION FOUNDATION$10,000
HIGH PLAINS PUBLIC RADIO$9,436
OTHER ROADS CONSULTING$9,350
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SEED HOUSE: $9k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Humanities Kansas Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Humanities Kansas Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$920k · 39 repeat orgs$693k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
67

Total granted

$920k
$565k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+6%

Still filing today

72%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsScience & TechHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UO
    University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
    4× · 2018–2022 · $44k · revenue +40%
  • DC
    Douglas County Historical Society
    4× · 2018–2022 · $41k · revenue +53%
  • KP
    KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • SP
    SALINA PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • EP
    EXPLORATION PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +95%
  • MO
    MUSEUM OF WORLD TREASURES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -19%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Cowley County Historical Society

The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.

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2
Wasco Co Historical Museum
Arts & Culture
3
Morton County Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical records and artifacts of morton county, kansas

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4
Platte County Historical Society

The mission of the Platte County Historical society is to discover memorialize and share the history of Platte County.

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5
Dawson County Historical Society

Operation of Historical Museum for the collection, preparation and display of artifacts from Dawson County Nebraska and disseminate and educate the public about Dawson County and it's historical treasures.

Arts & Culture
6
Mitchell County Historical Society Inc

Operate the mitchell county museum to preserve the historical and cultural artifacts of mitchell county

Arts & Culture
7
Osage County Historical Society & Museum

Operate museum

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8
Kittson County Historical Society

Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge which will esstablish and illustrate the history of kittson county.

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9
Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Association

To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county

Arts & Culture
10
Richardson County Historical Society Inc

Museum depicting history of richardson county, nebraska

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11
Haskell County Historical Society Haskell County Historical Society

To restore and preserve historical structures and memorabilia

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12
Holt county historical society

Holt co history

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thomas County Historical Society in and the most unlike its peers is Flint Hills Counterpoint Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%10%<5yr12%6%5–10yr16%7%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr22%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%9%<5yr12%4%5–10yr16%7%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr15%23%35–55yr22%41%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/118
the rest of the field
10%
1,084/10,982

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

74 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. 74 of the 118 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/74
Grantees still filing
44/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Douglas County Historical Society — $41,296 · OtherKTWU — $34,000 · OtherSALINA PUBLIC LIBRARY — $29,991 · OtherFORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $28,403 · OtherMid-America All-Indian Center Inc — $28,065 · Other+62 more — $672,217 · Other+62 moreKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE — $40,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATION…THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC — $32,400 · Arts & CultureTHE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUS…RENO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $26,298 · Arts & CultureRENO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY …LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INCFREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC — $22,400 · Arts & CultureATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION — $15,875 · Arts & Culture+29 more — $292,573 · Arts & Culture+29 moreWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $62,327 · EducationWICHITA STATE U…STORYTIME VILLAGE INC — $36,416 · EducationSTORYTIME VILLA…DO GOOD PRODUCTIONS INC — $34,200 · EducationDO GOOD PRODUCT…BETHEL COLLEGE — $24,988 · EducationBETHEL COLLEGEThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $19,950 · EducationThe Kansas Univ…MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY — $14,050 · EducationMIDAMERICA NAZA…WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $9,987 · Education+2 more — $10,000 · EducationTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $38,422 · PhilanthropyLawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation — $26,860 · PhilanthropyUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $43,615 · Science & TechMIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION — $11,800 · Civil RightsJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC — $10,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION OF SALINA INC dba Salina Media Connection — $10,146 · Community Improvement
Other$833,972Arts & Culture$454,546Education$221,918Philanthropy$65,282Science & Tech$43,615Civil Rights$21,800Community Improvement$10,146

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $62,327 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc — $43,615 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDouglas County Historical Society — $41,296 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $38,422 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTORYTIME VILLAGE INC — $36,416 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetDO GOOD PRODUCTIONS INC — $34,200 over 4y, 26% of budgetTHE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC — $32,400 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetFORT LARNED HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $28,403 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetMid-America All-Indian Center Inc — $28,065 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE FINNEY COUNTY KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $26,908 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLawrence Public Library Friends and Foundation — $26,860 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetRENO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $26,298 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLAWRENCE ARTS CENTER INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBETHEL COLLEGE — $24,988 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC — $22,400 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $20,637 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $19,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION — $15,875 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE MUSEUM INC — $15,400 over 2y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FREE STATE CAPITOL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Pioneer Bluffs Foundation Inc — $14,988 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetLYON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $14,526 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY — $14,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION — $13,750 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE MARTIN AND OSA JOHNSON SAFARI MUSEUM INC — $13,680 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetBIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $13,175 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetFranklin County Historical Society — $13,014 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetEXPLORATION PLACE INC — $12,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF WORLD TREASURES INC — $12,400 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOSMOSPHERE INC — $12,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKANZA Society Inc — $12,400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INC — $12,235 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGORDON PARKS MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $12,150 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetKANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC — $11,890 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION — $11,800 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDICKINSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $11,560 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetOZ MUSEUM - COLUMBIAN THEATRE FOUNDATION INC — $11,400 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMEDICINE LODGE INDIAN PEACE TREATY — $11,150 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWYANDOTTE NATION OF KANSAS — $10,850 over 1y, 14% of budgetWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBoot Hill Museum Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKansas State Historical Society Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetARTSCONNECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE PARKS AND RECREATION FOUNDATION OF JOHNSON COUNTY — $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $9,987 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Sunderland Founda…Greater Salina Commun…Greater Kansas City C…Dane G Hansen Foundat…Lattner Family Founda…Topeka Community Foun…Wichita FoundationGreater Manhattan Com…Kansas Health Foundat…Emporia Community Fou…Textron Charitable Tr…Beach-Edwards Family …
The Sunderland FoundationKS24.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Dane G Hansen Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Topeka Community Foundation · Wichita Foundation · Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Emporia Community Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Beach-Edwards Family 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 Humanities Kansas 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 118 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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