Kansas · Private foundation
Lending Help For Students Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $447k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 132
- Grants FY2025
- 136
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $972
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $47,591
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 147
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 61% of the organizations Lending Help For Students Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $238k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 132 | $447k | 48% |
| FY2024 | 136 | $498k | 61% |
| FY2023 | 137 | $620k | 61% |
| FY2022 | 147 | $808k | 66% |
| FY2021 | 86 | $417k | 92% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $22k | 88% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $12k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lindenwood Education System | $50,669 | 4 | 0% |
| Kansas State University | $48,402 | 2 | n/a |
| Missouri Valley College | $35,454 | 2 | 0% |
| Midamerica Nazarene University | $35,348 | 3 | 0% |
| Johnson County Community College | $28,567 | 5 | n/a |
| Hockey Club Des Moines | $27,280 | 4 | 2% |
| McPherson College | $25,736 | 4 | 0% |
| St Charles Borromeo | $15,036 | 4 | n/a |
| Leavenworth Unified School District # 453 | $14,795 | 2 | n/a |
| Lesley University | $10,076 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 376 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lending Help For Students Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Kansas Independent College Association · Folds of Honor Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Kansas City Football Coaches Association · Great Jobs Kc Inc · Servant Foundation · Greater Horizons · Jack J Isgur Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lending Help For Students Inc
- How much does Lending Help For Students Inc give?
- Lending Help For Students Inc reported 132 grants totaling $446,932 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 147 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Lending Help For Students Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Recreation & Sports (13%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Lending Help For Students Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lindenwood Education System ($51k), Kansas State University ($48k), Missouri Valley College ($35k).
- Does Lending Help For Students Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lending Help For Students Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lending Help For Students Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
- Where is Lending Help For Students Inc based?
- Lending Help For Students Inc is based in KS.
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