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Kansas Heritage Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Washburn University | $25,500 |
| First Tee Greater Topeka | $10,000 |
| Friends of Recovery | $3,200 |
| TFI | $3,000 |
| YMCA | $3,000 |
| PFLAG Lawrence Topeka Chapter | $2,000 |
| Jayhawk Area Council | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 99% of your 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS4× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue +21%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA4× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +39%
- PDPhi Delta Theta Foundation3× · 2018–2021 · $23k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- KKTWUone grant, 2018 · $10k
- TFThe First Tee of Shawnee Countyone grant, 2018 · $10k
- KSKansas State Historical Society Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -22%
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.
To enhance educational opportunities for all students through a partnership of our community and its public schools.
The mission of Toccoa Falls College is to glorify God through seeking and developing Christian servant leaders who will impact their world with the love and message of Jesus Christ.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
The foundation promotes the future, and preserves the history, of golf in kansas.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
Ywca is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
The topeka community foundation works to improve the quality of life in the topeka region through an active partnership with donors and others who wish to bring positive change through charitable giving. the foundation manages charitable…
To communicate the life changing message of jesus christ to every young person, giving them the opportunity to make an informed decision to become a follower of jesus christ.
To preserve, promote and enhance the traditions and heritage of topeka high school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Topeka and the most unlike its peers is Combat Air Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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
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 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA ↗
- Who funds GREATER TOPEKA YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Phi Delta Theta Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RECOVERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMBAT AIR MUSEUM 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: Topeka Community Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Heritage 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.
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