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Legacy a Regional Community Foundation
The vision of legacy regional community foundation is to be a comprehensive foundation that is intentional and boldly proactive in embracing our donors and our community.we believe the distinctive mission of legacy regional community foundation is to grow area philanthropic and nonprofit efforts by connecting donors with critical needs…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $1,485,893 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,899,425 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $413,532 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $556k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $369k
- $250k+1 grant · $503k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COWLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $503,128 |
| SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE | $116,020 |
| GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $94,893 |
| WILLIAM NEWTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $53,653 |
| EAGLE NEST INC | $53,195 |
| UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF | $50,810 |
| BARTLETT ARBORETUM | $49,308 |
| ARKANSAS CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $49,156 |
| WINFIELD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $42,637 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC | $42,342 |
| UNICEF | $42,342 |
| SIERRA CLUB | $42,342 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDER | $42,342 |
| WINFIELD FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $32,120 |
| WINFIELD FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $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 (FY20–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $937k 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
- TSTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +6%
- WNWilliam Newton Healthcare Foundation Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $117k · revenue +471%
- BABARTLETT ARBORETUM SOCIETY2× · 2023–2024 · $114k · revenue +60% · 26% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF WINFIELDone grant, 2022 · $286k
- PWPLAYCORE WISCONSIN INCone grant, 2023 · $51k
- ACARKANSAS CITY AREA ART COUNCIL INCone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -31%
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 educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
To advance the educational, civic, social, commercial and economic interest of the City of Winfield and general welfare and prosperity of the local community and locally owned businesses.
To provide benefits for the city of westwood, ks and its residents relating to construction and development of public buildings for city purposes.
Wplf seeks private charitable support to create young readers, ensure digital inclusion, and provide equitable access to information. wplf's sole purpose is to create a margin of excellence at wichita public library.
The wichita state university foundation, as the private fund raising organization of the university, seeks to advance the mission of the university by identifying, cultivating and soliciting private support from individuals, corporations…
To support nonprofits across kansas in fulfilling their mission, building capacity and developing sustainability.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Preservation of historical records and artifacts of morton county, kansas
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Clearwater Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Camp Like Max Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 35. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 12% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 64 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 COWLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds William Newton Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT ARBORETUM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EAGLE NEST INC ↗
- Who funds WINFIELD AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WINFIELD ARTS & HUMANITIES COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds COWLEY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ARKANSAS CITY AREA ART COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS NEWSPAPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COWLEY COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HAMMERS PRAIRIE PARK AND NATURE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANGELS IN THE ATTIC INC ↗
- Who funds WINFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER IN COWLEY COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER OUTREACH SERVICES INC ↗
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: United Way of the Plains Inc · Robert & Gwen Tyler Charitable Foundatio · Kansas Health Foundation · V J Wilkins Foundation · H L Snyder Medical Foundation · Rash McReynolds Foundation · Kansas Methodist Foundation Inc · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Wichita Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 Legacy a Regional Community 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.
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.
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