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· Public charity
Kansas Independent College Association
The Kansas Independent College Association develops and enhances the competitive standing of its 21 member independent, nonprofit, regionally accredited, degree-granting colleges and universities.
$78k
Granted FY2025
5
Grants
1
Communities
$6k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Education$308kHealth$6kOther$3k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
four-yearmanhattandegreepreparesgodgraduatechristian
2020
four-yearmanhattandegreegodpreparesgraduatechristian
2021
biblechristian leadershipmanhattanfour-yearpreparesgoddegree
2022
benedictine
2024
preparesgodchristianbenedictine
2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$5,665
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
- McPherson College$6,454
- Baker University$6,049
- Southwestern College$5,665
- Tabor College$5,468
- Newman University$5,445
02The need
04
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 88% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$311k · 19 repeat orgs$6k to everyone else
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
19
2
Total granted
$311k
$6k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+16%
+198%
Still filing today
95%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationHealthOther
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
- BCBenedictine College5× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +80%
- TCTabor College5× · 2019–2025 · $28k · revenue +41%
- OUOttawa University4× · 2019–2024 · $22k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BCBarclay Collegeone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -12%
- KIKansas Independent College Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +198%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Kansas City University
Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.
Education
2
Benedict College
Benedict college will be a power for good in society. the college is a full opportunity college with high quality programs of teaching, research, and public service. these programs provide the students and community with knowledge, skills,…
Education
3
The Colorado College
To transform our students by providing the finest liberal arts education available, taught through the academically rigorous, immersive, and flexible block plan.
Education
4
Central College
Central college is a private liberal arts institution dedicated to the four year undergraduate experience.
Education
5
Columbia College
Columbia College improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Education
6
Oklahoma Christian University
Oklahoma Christian University Exists to educate, mentor, and inspire students to fulfill their potential and transform their lives through Christian faith, scholarship, and service.
Education
7
Washington College
Washington college challenges and inspires emerging citizen leaders to discover lives of purpose and passion.
Education
8
Wheaton College
Wheaton College serves Jesus Christ and advances his Kingdom through excellence in liberal arts and graduate programs that educate the whole person to build the church and benefit society worldwide.
Education
9
Trinity College
Trinity is a comprehensive institution offering a broad range of educational programs that prepare students across the lifespan for the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual dimensions of contemporary work, civic and family life.
Education
10
Marietta College
Marietta college provides a strong foundation for a lifetime of leadership, critical thinking, and problem solving.
Education
11
Kentucky Christian University
Higher education for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions.
Education
12
Wyoming Catholic College
Wyoming catholic college is a four-year coeducational catholic college based in lander, wyoming. wyoming catholic college's primary educational objective is to offer a traditional liberal arts education that schools the whole person in his…
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donnelly College and the most unlike its peers is Ottawa University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/21
the rest of the field
9%
849/9,319
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.
05the grantee network
21 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$307,713Health$6,324Other$2,950
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 Newman University ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds Tabor College ↗
- Who funds Baker University ↗
- Who funds Ottawa University ↗
- Who funds McPherson College ↗
- Who funds University of Saint Mary ↗
- Who funds MidAmerica Nazarene University ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds Southwestern College ↗
- Who funds Kansas Wesleyan University ↗
- Who funds Manhattan Christian College ↗
- Who funds Sterling College ↗
- Who funds Bethany College ↗
- Who funds Bethel College ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds Hesston College ↗
- Who funds Central Christian College of Kansas ↗
- Who funds Cleveland University - Kansas City ↗
- Who funds Barclay College ↗
- Who funds Kansas Independent College Association ↗
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.
Je and le Mabee Foundation IncTX32.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Jellison Benevolent Society Inc · The Pete Henry Foundation · Council of Independent Colleges · Ibm International Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Margaret Nelson Castle College · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas · Wichita 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 organisation Kansas Independent College Association 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Kansas Independent College Association.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
medium risk
~4 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 480766794 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Kansas Independent College Association, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 4 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 0% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Kansas Independent College Association?
Find your warmest path to Kansas Independent College Association through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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