· Public charity
Kansas Head Start Association
The KANSAS HEAD START ASSOCIATION strengthens leadership, learning, partnership and advocacy opportunities for head start families, staff, and programs.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k2 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $713k
- $250k+1 grant · $271k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOPEKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS USD 501 | $271,074 |
| LIBERAL USD 480 | $208,421 |
| USD 349 STAFFORD SCKSEC | $151,783 |
| HARTFORD USD 252 | $150,360 |
| NKESC EARLY HEAD START | $103,777 |
| KAW VALLEY USD 321 | $98,703 |
| USD 102 CIMARRON-ENSIGN | $34,835 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $30,672 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $213k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HUHARTFORD USD 2526× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M
- TPTopeka Public Schools USD 5016× · 2017–2022 · $1.6M
- LULIBERAL USD 4806× · 2017–2022 · $1.2M
Funded once
- U4USD 445 COFFEYVILLE KANSASone grant, 2017 · $19k
- MHMcPherson High Schoolone grant, 2017 · $15k
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.
1 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1 of the 11 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kansas Head Start Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas Head Start Association. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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