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McCune & Middlekauff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $131k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Salina Health Education Foundation | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| Unified School District 305 | $81,187 |
| Salina Regional Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Stiefel Theatre For The Performing | $40,000 |
| Rolling Hills Zoo Foundation | $35,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $35,000 |
| Salina Grace Foundation | $25,000 |
| Salina Community Theatre Foundation | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross of Kansas | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| Salina Rescue Mission Inc | $15,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Salina | $10,000 |
| KSDS Asssistance Dogs Inc | $10,000 |
| Salina Animal Services | $10,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $406k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% 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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 13 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, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $774k 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
- KWKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2023 · $335k · revenue +43%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +23%
- SRSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $110k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansasgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +28%
- LCLindsborg Child Development Centerone grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue -54%
- SASALINA AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -55%
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.
Promote and support economic development
Provide child care and sponsor the child and adult care food program.
To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.
To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Enrichment programs and other projects aimed at enhancing the quality of education and educational opportunities for all students.
To provide care and refuge for animals in need.
Christian education
Saline area social service provides food, emergency aid, and support to those in need in the saline community. sass aims to build a stronger community of neighbors helping neighbors.
Support services for saline memorial hospital.
Library for benefit of public
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Prairieland Market Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 57 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 SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas ↗
- Who funds Lindsborg Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROLLING HILLS ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEEN TOWN INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIELAND MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Earl Bane Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Marshall Family Foundation Inc · Horejsi Charitable Foundation Inc · Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust
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 McCune & Middlekauff 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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