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Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust at a glance

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Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$622k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$8.7MHuman Services$8.3MEducation$5.2MYouth Development$3.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$2.4MReligion$1.4MPhilanthropy$819kHousing & Shelter$562kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $356k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $848k
  • $250k+13 grants · $5.0M
$62,208
Median grant
5
States reached
$102M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CAPPER FOUNDATION$622,080
STORMONT VAIL FOUNDATION$622,080
CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH$622,080
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TOPEKA$331,040
AMERICAN RED CROSS - KANSAS CAPITOL AREA$311,040
EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY$311,040
UNITED METHODIST YOUTHVILLE INC$311,040
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - JAYHAWK COUNCIL$311,040
SALVATION ARMY OF TOPEKA$311,040
UNIVERSITY OF ST MARY'S$311,040
NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL & RESEARCH CTR$311,040
KANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION (KS STATE UNIV)$311,040
PRESBYTERIAN MANORS OF MID-AMERICA$311,040
KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER$150,000
LEBO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$124,416
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CAMP WOODS YMCA: $50k → 11%HOPE UNLIMITED INC: $100k → 16%CAMP WOOD YMCA: $50k → 11%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $25k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $20k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $20k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $20k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $20k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $15k → 16%UNITED METHODIST YOUTHVILLE INC: $313k → 16%UNITED METHODIST YOUTHVILLE INC: $311k → 16%UNITED METHODIST YOUTHVILLE INC: $265k → 16%UNITED METHODIST YOUTHVILLE INC: $254k → 16%UNITED METHODIST YOUTHVILLE INC: $247k → 16%UNITED METHODIST YOUTHVILLE INC: $239k → 16%ERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC: $41k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $100k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $71k → 14%SHELTERED LIVING INC: $30k → 14%SHELTERED LIVING INC: $20k → 14%ALDERSGATE VILLAGE: $50k → 14%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES: $49k → 14%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$29M · 49 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

49 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
26

Total granted

$29M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+13%

Still filing today

57%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $943k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SF
    STORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +18%
  • CF
    CAPPER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +27%
  • CF
    CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH
    6× · 2020–2025 · $3.3M · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • AO
    ADVENTHEALTH OTTAWA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • KS
    Kansas State Historical Society Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue -43%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE AND GUIDANCE CENTER OF TOPEKA INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · 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
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
2
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
3
Kansas Land Trust Inc

To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.

Environment
4
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
5
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
6
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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7
Kansas Health Institute

Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.

Science & Tech
8
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment
9
Regional West Health Services

Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.

Health
10
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center

To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.

Health
11
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
12
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Inc

Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League; the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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

60 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. 60 of the 88 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/60
Grantees still filing
41/60
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAPPER FOUNDATION: $3,259,873 · OtherCAPPER FOUNDATIONSALVATION ARMY OF TOPEKA: $1,629,936 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF TOPEKAUNIVERSITY OF ST MARY'S: $1,581,031 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ST MARY'SPRESBYTERIAN MANORS INC: $1,318,896 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN MANORS INCAMERICAN RED CROSS - KANSAS CAPITOL AREA: $1,128,327 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - KANSAS CAPITOL AREAKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION (KS STATE UNIV): $1,128,327 · OtherKANSAS 4-H FOUNDATION (KS STATE UNIV)LEBO UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $651,976 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - JAYHAWK COUNCIL: $624,409 · Other+39 more: $5,765,062 · Other+39 moreCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $3,259,873 · Human ServicesCAL FARLEY'S BOYS R…EMBERHOPE INC: $1,629,936 · Human ServicesEMBERHOPE INC+8 more: $681,743 · Human Services+8 moreSTORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION: $3,259,873 · HealthSTORMONT-VAIL FO…NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,128,327 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH …The Children's Mercy Hospital: $220,000 · Health+6 more: $293,866 · Health+6 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA: $1,558,315 · Youth DevelopmentKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $501,609 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,318,896 · EducationFLINT HILLS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 · EducationSPARKWHEEL INC: $105,000 · EducationOTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationBETHEL COLLEGE: $100,000 · Education+4 more: $175,000 · EducationUNITED WAY OF THE FLINT HILLS INC: $374,892 · PhilanthropyEmporia Community Foundation: $130,000 · PhilanthropyCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $50,000 · PhilanthropyKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $127,896 · Arts & CultureKansas State Historical Society Inc: $125,000 · Arts & CultureSUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureEMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$17,087,837Human Services$5,571,552Health$4,902,066Youth Development$2,209,924Education$1,998,896Philanthropy$554,892Arts & Culture$492,896

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION: $3,259,873 over 6y, 14% of budgetCAPPER FOUNDATION: $3,259,873 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetCAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH: $3,259,873 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetEMBERHOPE INC: $1,629,936 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA: $1,558,315 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetEMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,318,896 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $1,128,327 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKansas 4-H Foundation Inc: $501,609 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $475,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE FLINT HILLS INC: $374,892 over 6y, 15% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN MANORS OF MID-AMERICA INC: $311,040 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $220,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFLINT HILLS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE TOPEKA ZOO INC: $175,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $171,055 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEAST CENTRAL KANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $160,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $150,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEmporia Community Foundation: $130,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $127,896 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetKansas State Historical Society Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $110,974 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $105,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AND GUIDANCE CENTER OF TOPEKA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP WOOD YMCA INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetHOPE UNLIMITED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetBETHEL COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC: $72,475 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetThe Land Institute: $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCASA OF SHAWNEE COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSHELTERED LIVING INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCentral Kansas Community Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WAMEGO PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetThe Willow Domestic Violence Center Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED METHODIST HOMES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC D/B/A CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS: $41,250 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHousing and Credit Counseling Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $35,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetEMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL: $35,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WICHITA INC: $27,642 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ALS ASSOCIATION MID-AMERICA CHAPTER: $23,749 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds STORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAL FARLEY'S BOYS RANCH ↗
  • Who funds EMBERHOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA ↗
  • Who funds EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE FLINT HILLS INC ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN MANORS OF MID-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds FLINT HILLS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TOPEKA ZOO INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST CENTRAL KANSAS AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Emporia Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗

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.

Topeka Community Foun…Kansas Health Foundat…The Sunderland Founda…Greater Kansas City C…Emporia Community Fou…Sunflower Foundation …Bnsf Railway Foundati…Wichita FoundationWs & Ec Jones Testame…Blanche Bryden Founda…United Way of Kaw Val…Blue Cross and Blue S…
Topeka Community FoundationKS46.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Topeka Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Emporia Community Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Wichita Foundation · Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust · Blanche Bryden Foundation · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc

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 Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 88 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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