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Kansas Philanthropies Inc at a glance

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Kansas Philanthropies Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Community Improvement$12kHuman Services$11kArts & Culture$9kEducation$6kYouth Development$5kPhilanthropy$4kFood & Nutrition$3kScience & Tech$549
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$296k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FO$7,000
ROTARY CLUB OF SANTA FE F$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FRANLLIN COUNTY HOPE HOUSE: $500 → 10%OMEGA PROJECT HOUSE OF BUHLER: $500 → 10%NEW HOPE FOOD PANTRY: $500 → 12%SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK: $500 → 13%AD ASTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL: $500 → 14%FOOD BANK OF RENO COUNTY: $1k → 15%CHANUTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300 → 16%KANSAS FOOD BANK: $200 → 16%THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FO: $7k → 11%BIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL GALLERY: $500 → 10%EMMAUS HOUSE: $500 → 12%SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK: $300 → 13%KANSAS COSMOSPHERE SPACE CAMP: $549 → 15%THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%EMMAUS HOUSE: $300 → 12%HUTCHINSON PUBLIC LIBRARY (MEMORIAL LLOYD BALLHAGEN): $500 → 15%THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FO: $5k → 11%FOOD BANK OF RENO COUNTY: $500 → 15%THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION GOVERNOR'S ART SHOW: $5k → 11%RENO COUNTY FOOD BANK: $300 → 15%THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION GOVERNOR'S ART SHOW: $3k → 11%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.
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37k · 7 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
12

Total granted

$37k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
-4%

Still filing today

71%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +28%
  • SE
    SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $800 · revenue +138%
  • EH
    EMMAUS HOUSE INC
    2× · 2017–2020 · $800 · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • RC
    Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -4%
  • TV
    THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -27%
  • KC
    KANSAS COSMOSPHERE SPACE CAMP
    one grant, 2017 · $549
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.

04Its 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
Kingman Area Food Bank

The distribution of food to the poor in the greater kingman arizona area.

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2
Pratt County Foodbank Inc

County food bank to assist with food needs of limited income families

Food & Nutrition
3
Tillman County Food Bank Foundation
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4
Chino Valley Food Bank

Provide emergency food boxes for needy families and individuals who reside in rural yavapai county arizona

Food & Nutrition
5
Colorado River Food Bank

Provide food and assistance to needy families.

Food & Nutrition
6
Asotin County Food Bank Association

Provide food and other necessities to asotin county residents in need.

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7
Santa Fe Waystation Inc

Primary program is the operation of a food pantry for the Kansas City area

Human Services
8
Columbia Falls Food Bank

Provide food to local needy

Food & Nutrition
9
Foothills Food Bank

The Foothills Food Bank works to ensure access to quality, nutritious food to community members in need, and deliver services with respect and dignity.

—
10
Artesia Emergency Relief

Emergency charitable relief

—
11
Reno Burrito Project Inc

To Feed and support Reno and Sparks most vulnerable populations.

—
12
Mcpherson County Food Bank Inc

To provide for needy people in mcpherson county kansas

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Santa Fe; the most unlike its peers is Birger Sandzen Memorial Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FO: $12,000 · OtherTHOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FORotary Club of Santa Fe: $10,000 · OtherRotary Club of Santa FeTHOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION GOVERNOR'S ART SHOW: $7,500 · OtherTHOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION GOVERNOR'S ART SHOWThe Food Bank of Reno Co Inc: $1,500 · Other+8 more: $4,449 · Other+8 moreRotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EducationRotary Club…CHANUTE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300 · EducationCHANUTE COM…THOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementTHOMPSON VA…UNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY: $4,000 · PhilanthropyAD ASTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $500 · Arts & CultureBIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $200 · Food & Nutrition
Other$35,449Education$5,300Community Improvement$5,000Philanthropy$4,000Arts & Culture$1,000Food & Nutrition$200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRotary Club of Santa Fe: $10,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetRotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHOMPSON VALLEY ROTARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNITED WAY OF RENO COUNTY: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEMMAUS HOUSE INC: $800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Philanthropies Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kansas Philanthropies Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Kansas Philanthropies Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Kansas Philanthropies Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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