· Public charity
Kansas Farm Bureau Foundation
Strengthening agriculture and the lives of kansans through leadership, education and service.
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.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $316k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $106,827 |
| KANSAS FARM BUREAU | $92,307 |
| VANDWATER INC | $60,794 |
| JANSSEN BEEF & GRAIN | $56,556 |
| WESTERN KANSAS IRRIGATION INC | $28,486 |
| AUTONOMOUS PIVOT INT | $25,210 |
| MCCLURE FARMS | $22,721 |
| KFB LEGAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| KOPPER FAMILY FARMS | $12,540 |
| KANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| KANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KFAC IN THE CLASSROOM | $10,000 |
| KANSAS FARM FOOD CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| ARABLE LABS INC | $9,359 |
| GREAT PLAINS PRECISION AG INC | $9,295 |
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 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 75% of its 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 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, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KFKANSAS FARM BUREAU3× · 2023–2025 · $176k · revenue +68%
- KFKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $91k · revenue +282%
- K4Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- FCFB CAPITAL MANAGEMENT OF KS INCone grant, 2024 · $36k
- BFBestifor Farmsone grant, 2023 · $35k
- NKNorthwest Kansas Technical Collegeone grant, 2020 · $30k
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.
To advance and protect the common interest of its members through effective communication and education to its members, the public and government
Strengthening agriculture and the lives of kansans through leadership, education and service.
To support members in farming
The primary objective is to operate soley and exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes that advance the interests of the beef industry.
To promote and improve the profitability of kansas corn farmers by developing and maintaining domestic and international markets to utilize kansas and us corn production.
Livestock Industry Promotion & Research
Maintain residence for active affiliated chapter. help establish an atmosphere conducive to education & scholastic pursuits among chapter members.
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
To serve students by providing leadership for the administration of education based interscholastic activities.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural or recreational significance in kansas.
Promoting pork as the meat of choice while enhancing the success of kansas pork industry
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 49 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kansas Farm Bureau Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas Farm Bureau Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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