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McCune & Middlekauff Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
30
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
19%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$500,000
Organizations funded a year
23 to 28
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$17M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 19% of the organizations McCune & Middlekauff Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving25$1.5M52%
FY202426$716k19%
FY202326$977k15%
FY202226$585k8%
FY202124$546k8%
FY202028$684k25%
FY201923$694kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.3MEducation$862kArts & Culture$568kPhilanthropy$528kHousing & Shelter$321kHuman Services$247kReligion$245kAnimals$235kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McCune & Middlekauff Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSalina Regional Health Foundation: $790,000 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetSalina Health Education Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetKansas Wesleyan University: $335,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDomestic Violence Association of Central Kansas Inc: $116,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetSalina Rescue Mission Inc: $110,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetSalina Art Center Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLindsborg Child Development Center: $70,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSalina Community Theatre Association: $60,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSalina Education Foundation: $57,500 over 6y, 10% of budgetSalina Area Technical College Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTeen Town Inc: $43,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPrairieland Market Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSalina Symphony Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetSalina Area United Way Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetSalina Grace Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSalina Emergency Aidfood Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetKsds Assistance Dogs Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFriends of the River Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetKansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetChild Advocacy and Parenting Service Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSalina Arts and Humanities Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Earl Bane FoundationKS53.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to McCune & Middlekauff Foundation?

Find your warmest path to McCune & Middlekauff Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About McCune & Middlekauff Foundation

How much does McCune & Middlekauff Foundation give?
McCune & Middlekauff Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $1,474,162 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does McCune & Middlekauff Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Education (14%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are McCune & Middlekauff Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Salina Regional Health Foundation ($790k), Salina Health Education Foundation ($500k), Usd #305 ($478k).
Does McCune & Middlekauff Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does McCune & Middlekauff Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as McCune & Middlekauff Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Earl Bane Foundation, Greater Salina Community Foundation, Smoot Charitable Foundation.
Where is McCune & Middlekauff Foundation based?
McCune & Middlekauff Foundation is based in KS.

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 57 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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