· Private foundation
Julia J Mingenback Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY | $70,000 |
| CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $60,000 |
| MCPHERSON VALLEY UPLANDS LRNING CTR | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL KANSAS CONSERVANCY INC | $10,000 |
| BIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- MOMCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY5× · 2019–2025 · $345k · revenue +47%
- MCMCPHERSON COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +3%
- BCBETHANY COLLEGE4× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- COCITY OF MCPHERSON KSone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MBMCPHERSON BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIESone grant, 2020 · $30k
- MCMCPHERSON COMMUNITY THEATERone grant, 2017 · $25k
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.
Superior healthcare and exceptional service for each person, every time.
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.
To support and promote furtherance of the mission of central christian college of kansas, to education men and women of character to impact the world for christ.
Preservation of historical records and artifacts of morton county, kansas
To educate, equip, and enrich christian leaders.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
The McPherson County Community Foundation serves the common good for its residents building strong communities by engaging people in philanthropy and developing a permanent endowment to provide resources now and for generations to come.
Operate the mitchell county museum to preserve the historical and cultural artifacts of mitchell county
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcpherson College and the most unlike its peers is Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 MCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds McPherson Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds McPherson Museum & Arts Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CEDARS INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KANSAS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: McPherson County Community Foundation · Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · 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 Julia J Mingenback Foundation 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.
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