· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| YMCA | $3,000 |
| TFI | $3,000 |
| Jayhawk Area Council | $2,000 |
| PFLAG Lawrence Topeka Chapter | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 99% 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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 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.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kansas Heritage Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas Heritage Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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