· Public charity
Kansas Methodist Foundation Inc
Receive gifts, bequests and donations to be held in trust to invest and administer for charitable, religious and educational use to maintain and further the programs and missions of the united methodist church and churches related to the methodist movement and to accept gifts that provide benefits to other not-for-profit, tax exempt…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 62 grants below total $1,729,277 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,961,740 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $232,463 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $182k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $564k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $582k
- $250k+1 grant · $402k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALDERSGATE VILLAGE | $402,164 |
| THE HUB ARGENTINE | $102,881 |
| EMBERHOPE | $94,476 |
| WICHITA COLLEGE HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $78,571 |
| MCPHERSON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $71,271 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $64,245 |
| MANHATTAN COLLEGE AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $63,877 |
| SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $55,358 |
| LAWRENCE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $51,033 |
| WICHITA ST PAUL'S UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $42,762 |
| INDEPENDENCE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $36,342 |
| NORTON FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $35,940 |
| CHURCH WORLD SERVICE | $32,123 |
| STILWELL UNITED MTHODIST CHURCH | $30,649 |
| BALLARD CENTER | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
67 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $718k 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
- EIEMBERHOPE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $672k · revenue +585%
- TSTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $385k · revenue +22%
- CWCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +192%
Funded once
- NRNARROW RIDGE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +89% · 50% of their budget
- TMTHE MCGREGOR SMITH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -99%
- HFHIAWATHA FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $31k
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 bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Christian institution of higher learning dedicated to the exploration, discernment, sustentation, and dissemination of god's truth. midwest is committed to excellence in education encouraging students to comprehensively consider god's word…
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
To develop and provide premier, wellness-based campuses and community outreach.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Receive gifts, bequests and donations to be held in trust to invest and administer for charitable, religious and educational use to maintain and further the programs and missions of the united methodist church and churches related to the…
Establish, conduct, operate and maintain a bible college, a high school, grade school and preschool under the doctrines and advocates of the church of god (holiness) for training in ministry, missions and christian workers in general.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Humankind ministries provides street outreach, shelter, affordable housing, supportive services, and basic needs to those experiencing homelessness or poverty in sedgwick county. recognizing the inherent value of each person, we serve the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Methodist Open Door and the most unlike its peers is The Mcgregor Smith Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
37 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. 37 of the 103 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 EMBERHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEY TOWERS INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HUB ARGENTINE INC ↗
- Who funds ASBURY PARK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NARROW RIDGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MCGREGOR SMITH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Kansas Health Foundation · Wichita Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · United Way of the Plains Inc · Douglas County Community Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Belin Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Topeka Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares 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 Methodist Foundation Inc 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.