· Public charity
Kansas State University Foundation
The mission of the KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION is to secure and prudently manage private gifts in support of kansas state university and foster a culture that unites philanthropic desires with university priorities.
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 13 grants below total $62,762,449 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $88,800,859 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,038,410 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 $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $84k
- $250k+6 grants · $63M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| K-STATE ATHLETICS INC | $35,843,473 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $19,106,553 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,790,938 |
| K-STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $2,526,459 |
| K-STATE ATHLETICS INC | $688,799 |
| K-STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $686,500 |
| MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $46,515 |
| US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION | $37,250 |
| Greater Manhattan Community Foundation | $9,453 |
| EXTENSION EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $7,009 |
| THE KANSAS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC | $7,000 |
| EN GARDE ARTS | $6,500 |
| PATRIOT FEATURES | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 4 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- KSK STATE ATHLETICS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $288M
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $213M
- AAALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +80% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $52k
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORKone grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue +3%
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Topeka Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Organization for Minority Architects Nomakc. 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 30 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 — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 39 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 ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KSU Charitable Real Estate Foundation ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY GOLF COURSE MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Institute of Biological Sciences Inc ↗
- Who funds RUSSELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXTENSION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE SOCIETIES W DBA KANSAS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC ↗
- Who funds K-STATE UNION CORPORATION D/B/A K-STATE STUDENT UNION ↗
- Who funds EN GARDE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL ON CONSUMER INTERESTS ↗
- Who funds National Organization for Minority Architects NOMAKC ↗
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 · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 State University Foundation 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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.