· Private foundation
McCune & Middlekauff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $131k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $500,000 |
| Salina Health Education Foundation | $500,000 |
| Unified School District 305 | $81,187 |
| Salina Regional Health Foundation | $50,000 |
| Stiefel Theatre For The Performing | $40,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $35,000 |
| Rolling Hills Zoo Foundation | $35,000 |
| Salina Community Theatre Foundation | $25,000 |
| Salina Grace Foundation | $25,000 |
| American Red Cross of Kansas | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $22,000 |
| Salina Rescue Mission Inc | $15,000 |
| Domestic Violence Assoc of Cent KS | $10,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Salina | $10,000 |
| Sunrise Presbyterian Church | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 -63%
- SASALINA AREA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -55%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 57 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 PRAIRIELAND MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization McCune & Middlekauff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from McCune & Middlekauff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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