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Kansas Health Foundation

The Kansas Health Foundation operates based on the following three-part purpose statement: 1.

$16M
Granted FY2024still arriving
167
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$6.0M
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Public Benefit$35MHealth$34MCommunity Improvement$11MFood & Nutrition$7.9MHuman Services$5.1MEducation$4.8MCrime & Legal$3.1MPhilanthropy$2.4MOther$0
02FY2024 · 167 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k90 grants · $450k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $375k
  • $50k–250k54 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+10 grants · $9.8M
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$432M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Healthy Bourbon County Action Team Inc$165,000
United Way of Kaw Valley Inc$165,000
Tri-Agency Intervention Inc dba Liberal Area Coalition for Families$165,000
Livewell Northwest Kansas Inc$165,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MAIN STREET MINISTRIES INC: $25k → 10%Livewell Northwest Kansas Inc: $165k → 10%RSVP of Northeast Kansas Inc: $25k → 11%Camp Woods Young Mens Christian Association: $25k → 11%SUNPORCH OF SMITH CENTER: $25k → 11%PHILLIPSBURG CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $25k → 12%CHEYENNE COUNTY VILLAGE INC: $25k → 14%Kansas Family Advisory Network Inc: $100k → 16%KC Healthy Kids: $750k → 16%KANSAS SENIOR LIVING INC: $25k → 12%KC Healthy Kids: $496k → 16%Humanity House Foundation: $25k → 16%AMERICAN STROKE FOUNDATION: $25k → 5%KC Healthy Kids: $300k → 16%KC Digital Drive: $250k → 15%KC Healthy Kids: $167k → 16%KC Digital Drive: $50k → 15%Support Kansas City Inc: $150k → 5%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWEST KANS: $25k → 12%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $25k → 14%Safehome Inc: $25k → 5%Russell Child Development Center: $25k → 12%Midland Care Connection Inc: $25k → 14%Real Men Real Leaders Inc: $25k → 12%ERC Resource & Referral Inc dba Child Care Aware of Eastern Kansas: $25k → 14%Wichita Family Crisis Center: $50k → 16%Center of Grace Inc: $25k → 5%The Hub Argentine Inc: $100k → 16%The Hub Argentine Inc: $50k → 16%Topeka Justice Unity and Ministry Project Inc (JUMP): $100k → 14%Ad Hoc Group Against Crime: $25k → 15%Topeka Justice Unity and Ministry Project Inc (JUMP): $25k → 14%Sheltered Living Inc dba SLI: $25k → 14%Topeka Justice Unity and Ministry Project Inc (J: $25k → 14%Justice Matters: $25k → 15%Wichita Birth Justice Society Inc: $50k → 16%Kansas Action for Children Inc: $1.9M → 14%KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC: $800k → 14%Kansas Family Advisory Network Inc: $100k → 16%Kansas Birth Justice Society: $100k → 16%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA: $50k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SE KANSAS: $290k → 16%Empower Evergreen Inc: $150k → 16%Empower Evergreen Inc: $100k → 16%SEED HOUSE - LA CASA DE LA SEMILLA: $56k → 16%Empower Evergreen Inc: $50k → 16%Empower Evergreen Inc: $50k → 16%Youth Educational Empowerment Program (YEEP): $50k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
MD
KS
FL
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$91M · 129 repeat orgs$17M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

129
208

Total granted

$91M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+26%

Still filing today

81%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • KL
    Kansas Leadership Center
    5× · 2019–2024 · $22M · revenue +467% · 74% of their budget
  • KA
    KANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $2.8M · revenue +7% · 56% of their budget
  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    4× · 2019–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IFF
    one grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -7%
  • DA
    DIRECT ACTION AND RESEARCH TRAINING CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.8M · revenue +4% · 99% of their budget
  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST HEALTH MINISTRY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $450k
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 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
2
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
3
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
4
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center

To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.

Health
5
Kansas Hospital Association

The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.

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6
Kansas City Care Clinic

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.

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7
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Inc

Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County

Health
8
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.

Health
9
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
10
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
11
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
12
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Action for Children Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

339 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. 339 of the 435 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.

34
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
332/339
Grantees still filing
229/339
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kansas Leadership Center: $21,910,000 · EducationKansas Leadership CenterThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $2,669,750 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowm…+14 more: $1,586,591 · Education+14 moreKANSAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $22,400,000 · Science & TechKANSAS HEALTH INSTITUTE+1 more: $687,750 · Science & TechKANSAS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $4,268,946 · OtherKANSAS CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP I…MID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL: $2,628,000 · OtherMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCILCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $2,352,581 · OtherCURATORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOU…THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS: $1,670,575 · OtherHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $1,387,500 · Other+107 more: $22,043,214 · Other+107 moreKANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,750,000 · Human ServicesKC Healthy Kids: $1,712,389 · Human ServicesEMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesKC DIGITAL DRIVE INC: $299,975 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $290,118 · Human Services+21 more: $1,755,511 · Human ServicesIFF: $2,000,000 · Community ImprovementDIRECT ACTION AND RESEARCH TRAINING CENTER INC: $1,788,540 · Community ImprovementEL CENTRO INC: $591,250 · Community ImprovementDESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $522,500 · Community ImprovementOpportunity Wichita Inc: $413,750 · Community ImprovementSENT INC: $249,956 · Community Improvement+7 more: $1,075,000 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHY KANSAS INC: $675,000 · HealthDCCCA INC: $626,241 · HealthHealthcore Clinic Inc: $341,598 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $315,000 · HealthGRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC: $241,632 · HealthTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $175,000 · HealthEPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH: $169,176 · HealthKONZA PRAIRIE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $165,000 · HealthCAREARC INC: $165,000 · HealthPrairie View Inc: $150,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $150,000 · HealthHEALTH PARTNERSHIP CLINIC INC: $145,000 · Health+12 more: $809,989 · HealthKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $2,766,250 · Crime & LegalTRI-AGENCY INTERVENTION INC: $821,250 · Crime & Legal+5 more: $289,046 · Crime & Legal
Education$26,166,341Science & Tech$23,087,750Other$34,350,816Human Services$7,157,993Community Improvement$6,640,996Health$4,128,636Crime & Legal$3,876,546

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS HEALTH INSTITUTE: $22,400,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetKansas Leadership Center: $21,910,000 over 5y, 74% of budgetKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $2,766,250 over 4y, 84% of budgetKANSAS ACTION FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,750,000 over 2y, 56% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $2,669,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetIFF: $2,000,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDIRECT ACTION AND RESEARCH TRAINING CENTER INC: $1,788,540 over 1y, 99% of budgetKC Healthy Kids: $1,712,389 over 3y, 37% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $1,387,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $1,080,600 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetKansas Association of Community Foundations: $1,020,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTRI-AGENCY INTERVENTION INC: $821,250 over 3y, 65% of budgetMETRO ORGANIZATION FOR RACIAL ECONOMIC EQUITY INC: $705,250 over 3y, 99% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $705,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetUniversity of Kansas Center for Research Inc: $687,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHY KANSAS INC: $675,000 over 1y, 85% of budgetCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC: $657,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetDCCCA INC: $626,241 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $624,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEL CENTRO INC: $591,250 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetDESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $522,500 over 3y, 77% of budgetGROUNDWORK NORTHEAST REVITALIZATION: $498,460 over 4y, 22% of budgetUNITED WAY OF KAW VALLEY INC: $465,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetOpportunity Wichita Inc: $413,750 over 3y, 38% of budgetCLIMATE AND ENERGY PROJECT INC: $381,250 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE VOTER NETWORK FOUNDATION: $375,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE KANSAS RURAL CENTER: $356,808 over 2y, 23% of budgetEMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $350,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetKANSAS BREASTFEEDING COALITION INC: $349,762 over 2y, 17% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $349,350 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHealthcore Clinic Inc: $341,598 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSTORYTIME VILLAGE INC: $325,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC: $315,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC: $301,884 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetTHE DODGE CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetKC DIGITAL DRIVE INC: $299,975 over 2y, 45% of budgetKANSAS FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION: $298,122 over 1y, 32% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $290,118 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $276,875 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNAMI KANSAS INC: $275,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF KS: $267,750 over 2y, 13% of budgetOMNI CIRCLE GROUP INC: $265,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSOCE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetLoud Light: $250,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetSENT INC: $249,956 over 4y, 11% of budgetGRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC: $241,632 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC: $230,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHOPE ENTERPRISE INC: $210,000 over 3y, 63% 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.

Sunflower Foundation …Wichita FoundationUnited Way of the Pla…Blue Cross and Blue S…Health Forward Founda…Dwane L and Velma Lun…Berry Foundation IncThe Sunderland Founda…Topeka Community Foun…Belin FoundationThe Fidelity Bank Fou…Goebel Family-Star Lu…
Sunflower Foundation Health Care for KansansKS168.9× affinity97 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    65report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 435 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.

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