· Public charity
Kansas Health Foundation
The Kansas Health Foundation operates based on the following three-part purpose statement: 1.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k90 grants · $450k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k54 grants · $5.0M
- $250k+10 grants · $9.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Kansas Leadership Center Inc | $6,000,000 |
| Alliance for a Healthy Kansas Inc | $675,000 |
| International Rescue Committee Inc | $600,000 |
| KC Healthy Kids | $496,000 |
| Kansas Food Bank Warehouse Inc | $450,000 |
| Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc | $350,000 |
| Mid-America Regional Council | $333,000 |
| K-State Research and Extension - Sedgwick County | $300,000 |
| The Kansas Farm Bureau Foundation | $298,122 |
| Kanbe's Markets | $276,875 |
| Kansas Health Institute | $175,000 |
| Tri-Agency Intervention Inc dba Liberal Area Coalition for Families | $165,000 |
| United Way of the Flint Hills Inc | $165,000 |
| United Way of Kaw Valley Inc | $165,000 |
| Harvey County Health Department | $165,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $7.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 92% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
129 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 84 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M 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
- KLKansas Leadership Center5× · 2019–2024 · $22M · revenue +467% · 74% of their budget
- KAKANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC2× · 2020–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +7% · 56% of their budget
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association4× · 2019–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +6%
Funded once
IFFgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue +101%- DADIRECT ACTION AND RESEARCH TRAINING CENTER INCone grant, 2021 · $1.8M · revenue +4% · 99% of their budget
- UMUNITED METHODIST HEALTH MINISTRY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $450k
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.
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.
The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.
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…
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Action for Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Emporia Spanish Speakers. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 25% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
338 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. 338 of the 435 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KANSAS HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Kansas Leadership Center ↗
- Who funds Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds IFF ↗
- Who funds DIRECT ACTION AND RESEARCH TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KC Healthy Kids ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas Association of Community Foundations ↗
- Who funds TRI-AGENCY INTERVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds METRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds University of Kansas Center for Research Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHY KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds DCCCA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK NORTHEAST REVITALIZATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Wichita Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE AND ENERGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS RURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER EVERGREEN INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BREASTFEEDING COALITION INC ↗
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: Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Wichita Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Belin Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust
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 Kansas Health Foundation 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.