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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.

$89M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$36M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$242MPhilanthropy$207MRecreation & Sports$81MCommunity Improvement$277kFood & Nutrition$92kScience & Tech$40kArts & Culture$40kHuman Services$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $62,762,449, the rows itemized in this filing. The $88,800,859 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $26,038,410 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $84k
  • $250k+6 grants · $63M
$46,515
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $55k → 12%Purdue University: $52k → 19%K-STATE ATHLETICS INC: $38.9M → 20%HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $38k → 15%US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION: $37k → 12%K-STATE ATHLETICS INC: $35.8M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $29.9M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $25.8M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $19.5M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $19.1M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $3.8M → 20%K-STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2.5M → 20%K-STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1.8M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $1.6M → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS INC: $689k → 20%K-STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $687k → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS INC: $649k → 20%K-STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $643k → 20%KSU GOLF COURSE MGT AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $50k → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $50.0M → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS: $45.3M → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS: $42.3M → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS: $35.6M → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS: $31.3M → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS: $28.7M → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS: $23.8M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $21.2M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $16.0M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $14.1M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $12.5M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $5.5M → 20%K-STATE ATHLETICS: $4.9M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2.6M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2.5M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2.4M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $2.1M → 20%KSU CHARITABLE REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $2.0M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: $1.8M → 20%KSU CHARITABLE REAL ESTATE FOUNDATION: $1.8M → 20%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI: $1.7M → 20%MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $47k → 20%MANHATTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $40k → 20%MANHATTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $38k → 20%MANHATTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $38k → 20%MANHATTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $22k → 20%MANHATTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20k → 20%MANHATTAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20k → 20%MANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20k → 20%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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NY
OR
IN
CA
MO
VA
MD
KS
DC
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$530M · 9 repeat orgs$304k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
24

Total granted

$530M
$278k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-28%
0%

Still filing today

56%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionPublic BenefitScience & TechOther
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

  • KS
    K STATE ATHLETICS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $288M
  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $213M
  • AA
    ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +80% · 53% of their budget

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $52k
  • HT
    HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
    one grant, 2024 · $38k · revenue +3%
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +1%
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
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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2
America's Newspapers

Providing research, education and practical information all aimed at optimizing newspapers' business operations, deepening their community engagement and enhancing the quality of their journalism.

Employment
3
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…

Education
4
American Astronomical Society

The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…

Science & Tech
5
Kansas Medical Society

To cultivate, promote,and disseminate knowledge and information concerning the medical profession and related subjects.

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6
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
7
National Association of College and University Attorneys

To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.

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8
American College of Gastroenterology

Our mission is to enhance the ability of our members to provide world class care to patients with digestive disorders and advance the profession through excellence and innovation based upon the pillars of patient care, education,…

Health
9
Michigan Farmers Market Association

Mifma supports the viability of all community-driven marketplaces so that they can connect all consumers to local farms and businesses.

Food & Nutrition
10
American Geophysical Union

Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…

Science & Tech
11
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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12
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Topeka Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 39 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

K STATE ATHLETICS INC: $287,940,205 · OtherK STATE ATHLETICS INCKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $213,495,404 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY+20 more: $552,017 · OtherALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $24,274,383 · EducationKSU Charitable Real Estate Foundation: $3,774,166 · Education+5 more: $226,969 · EducationHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $37,515 · Food & NutritionAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,558 · Food & NutritionRUSSELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureEN GARDE ARTS INC: $6,500 · Arts & CultureDIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE: $6,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $9,453 · PhilanthropyTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,556 · PhilanthropyUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN COUNCIL ON CONSUMER INTERESTS: $5,250 · Public BenefitAmerican Institute of Biological Sciences Inc: $11,474 · Science & Tech
Other$501,987,626Education$28,275,518Food & Nutrition$43,073Arts & Culture$22,500Philanthropy$18,009Public Benefit$15,250Science & Tech$11,474

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $24,274,383 over 9y, 53% of budgetKSU Charitable Real Estate Foundation: $3,774,166 over 2y, 46% of budgetMANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $265,521 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY GOLF COURSE MANAGEMENT AND RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $138,436 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $59,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $37,515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,494 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Institute of Biological Sciences Inc: $11,474 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8,556 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXTENSION EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,009 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE SOCIETIES W DBA KANSAS SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON DC: $7,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetK-STATE UNION CORPORATION D/B/A K-STATE STUDENT UNION: $6,530 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIAVOLO DANCE THEATRE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: $5,558 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON CONSUMER INTERESTS: $5,250 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNational Organization for Minority Architects NOMAKC: $5,200 over 1y, 11% 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.

Kansas Health Foundat…Greater Kansas City C…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Kansas Health FoundationKS13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 39 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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