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Kansas Action for Children Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Kansas Action for Children Inc

Kansas action for children, inc.

$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$318kCommunity Improvement$170kHealth$28kHuman Services$27kPublic Benefit$23kEmployment$12kCrime & Legal$6k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EL CENTRO$10,000
METRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL AND ECONOMIC EQUITY$10,000
KANSAS INTERFAITH ACTION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $12k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KANSAS FAMILY ADVISORY NETWORK: $12k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$461k · 4 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against -21% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$461k
$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
-21%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalHuman ServicesReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MO
    METRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $214k · revenue +20%
  • EC
    EL CENTRO INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +55%
  • KI
    Kansas Interfaith Action Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $99k · revenue +205%

Funded once

  • NC
    NBC Community Development Corp
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -96% · 25% of their budget
  • MC
    Maintsream Civic Engagement Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $23k · revenue -41%
  • TI
    TRI-AGENCY INTERVENTION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Kansas Recovery Network
Health
2
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
3
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
4
Kansas Coalition for Common Sense Inc

Providing innovative research, message guidance, communication training, communication expertise,and collaborative strategies to aligned organizations to grow their capacity and improve collaborationand coordination among partner groups in…

Civil Rights
5
Keep Kansas Courts Impartial Inc

Promotion of social welfare of every kansan through education.

—
6
Save Kansas Coalition Inc

The mission of the save kansas coalition is by research, education and communication with the public to work with agencies, associations, citizens, business leaders, and legislators who embrace save kansas policies. we will educate kansans…

—
7
Kc People's Fund
Philanthropy
8
Kansas City Anti Violence Project

To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.

—
9
Kansas Farmers Union Foundation Inc
Community Improvement
10
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
11
Kansas Newspaper Foundation

To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.

Community Improvement
12
Kansas Club for Growth

Public policy education

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc; the most unlike its peers is Nbc Community Development Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC: $213,900 · Civil RightsMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQU…+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsEL CENTRO INC: $119,900 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO INCNBC Community Development Corp: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNBC Community Development CorpKansas Interfaith Action Inc: $98,900 · ReligionKansas Interfaith A…COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC: $28,325 · OtherCOMMUNITY CA…Maintsream Civic Engagement Foundation: $22,500 · OtherMaintsream C…DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC: $12,000 · OtherDRESS FOR SU…TRI-AGENCY INTERVENTION INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $6,000 · Crime & LegalKansas Family Advisory Network: $12,000 · Human Services
Civil Rights$218,900Community Improvement$169,900Religion$98,900Other$62,825Crime & Legal$21,000Human Services$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC: $213,900 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetEL CENTRO INC: $119,900 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetKansas Interfaith Action Inc: $98,900 over 4y, 24% of budgetNBC Community Development Corp: $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC: $28,325 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMaintsream Civic Engagement Foundation: $22,500 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTRI-AGENCY INTERVENTION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKansas Family Advisory Network: $12,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA INC: $12,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE FOR JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Kansas Health Foundat…Health Forward Founda…Sunflower Foundation …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kansas Health FoundationKS19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kansas Health Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kansas Action for Children Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas Action for Children Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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