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Kansas Livestock Foundation

To operate solely and exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes that advance the interests of the beef industry.

$322k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$107k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Public Safety & Disaster$1.8MFood & Nutrition$107kRecreation & Sports$24kEnvironment$15k
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $120,915, the rows itemized in this filing. The $321,835 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $200,920 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $107k
$107,288
Median grant
1
States reached
$628k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kansas State University Foundation$107,288
AMF Farm Properties$13,627
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Nebraska Cattlemen Disaster Relief Fund: $11k → 13%Montana Stockgrowers Association: $6k → 9%Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers: $5k → 11%Lyle C Trapp Trust #1: $11k → 19%Smokey Valley Ranch: $15k → 10%6M Land & Cattle LLC: $80k → 10%Clawson Ranch Partnership: $48k → 10%J7 Dairy: $9k → 10%Brugardt Farms: $70k → 11%Meyer Land & Cattle Co: $9k → 11%Ford County Land & Cattle Inc: $31k → 12%Huseman Ranch LLC: $19k → 12%MTPRC LTP: $14k → 12%Giles Land Company LLC: $30k → 12%Gardiner Angus Ranch Inc: $357k → 13%Hachmeister Ranch: $5k → 14%Daniel H Johnson Trust: $10k → 14%Stull Cattle Co LLC: $175k → 14%Koester Brothers Inc: $57k → 14%MG Oil Inc: $7k → 14%AMF Farm Properties: $14k → 15%Lloyd W Rhodes Trust: $8k → 16%Kansas State University Livestock Judging Camp: $7k → 20%Folks Family Trust: $5k → 8%Farm Rescue: $10k → 12%Broadie Godwin Trust: $7k → 11%Swayze Farms Inc: $14k → 12%Filson Farms Inc: $14k → 12%Giles Ranch Company LLC: $322k → 13%Bowlby Ranch: $59k → 14%Bar S Ranch: $152k → 14%Kansas State University Livestock Judging Camp: $7k → 20%Ford Cattle Company: $10k → 12%CK Ranch & Farms LLC: $26k → 13%Terry Sibling Farm: $18k → 14%Angel Ranch: $87k → 14%Kansas State University Livestock Judging Camp: $5k → 20%Snake Creek Ranch Co: $24k → 13%Kansas State University Livestock Judging Camp: $5k → 20%Giles Ranch Land LLC: $23k → 13%Kansas State University Foundation: $107k → 20%Clark County Conservation District: $15k → 13%H-H Ranch LLC: $11k → 20%All American Beef Battalion: $10k → 13%JW Bisel Inc: $7k → 13%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

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ND
UT
NE
KS
NC
OK
TX
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 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
Nc Farm Bureau Legal Foundation Inc
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2
Florida Cattlemen's Foundation Inc

The organizations primary mission is to help sustain the history, heritage and objectives of the florida cattle industry, enhance beef production and marketing programs.

Food & Nutrition
3
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives

To advance the business and policy interests of america's cooperatives and other farmer-owned enterprises.

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4
Colorado Cattlemen's Association

The colorado cattlemen's association's mission is to promote the interests of colorado's beef industry and protect colorado's land, water, and forage resources.

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5
North Dakota Stockmen's Association

The nd stockmen's association is a cattle producers' trade organization. it provides member services & activities, conducts the state's brand programs, & provides legislative watchdog activities. its mission is to unite, protect, promote,…

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6
Farming for the Future Foundation
Philanthropy
7
North Dakota Stockmen's Foundation

To engage in educational, promotional, and research activities dedicated to the improvement of the beef cattle industry.

Philanthropy
8
Texas Farm Bureau Ag Research & Education Foundation

Initiate ag research and educational activities, disseminate information regarding education and marketing commodities. promote study of agriculture and agriculture research, and award educational scholarships and agricultural research…

Education
9
Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association

To improve the cattle raising industry in texas and the southwest through education, market inspection, law enforcement and other member services.

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10
Us Farming and Ranching Foundation

MISSION: bring all of American agriculture together, with farmers and ranchers at the center, to collectively identify and tackle critical, long-term issues. We collaborate, communicate, educate, advocate and utilize science to advance the…

Food & Nutrition
11
Santa Clara County Farm Bureau

To work for solutions to the problems of the farm and rural community by use of organized action. to represent, protect, and advance the social, economic and educational interests of the farmers of santa clara county.

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12
North Carolina Cattlemen's Association Inc

To promote, educate, market and defend the beef industry.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Montana Stockgrowers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is All American Beef Battalion. 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

9 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. 9 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Gardiner Angus Ranch Inc: $357,318 · OtherGardiner Angus Ranch IncGiles Ranch Company LLC: $322,432 · OtherGiles Ranch Company LLCStull Cattle Co LLC: $175,273 · OtherStull Cattle Co LLCBar S Ranch: $151,742 · OtherBar S RanchAngel Ranch: $87,343 · Other6M Land & Cattle LLC: $80,373 · OtherBrugardt Farms: $69,692 · Other+31 more: $553,843 · Other+31 moreKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $107,288 · EducationNORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA CATTLEMEN DISASTER RELIEF FUND: $11,000 · Food & NutritionFARM RESCUE: $10,000 · Food & NutritionAll American Beef Battalion: $10,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,798,016Education$107,288Crime & Legal$50,000Food & Nutrition$21,000Public Benefit$10,000Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $107,288 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $15,321 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM RESCUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAll American Beef Battalion: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMONTANA STOCKGROWERS FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTEXAS & SOUTHWESTERN CATTLE RAISERS' FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NEBRASKA CATTLEMEN DISASTER RELIEF FUND ↗
  • Who funds FARM RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds All American Beef Battalion ↗
  • Who funds MONTANA STOCKGROWERS FOUNDATION ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Ashland Community FoundationKS30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Florida Cattlemen's Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 44 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $55k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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