Skip to content
Plinth
Foundation DossiersAlso receives grants — funding profile →
Plinth

· Community foundation

McPherson County Community Foundation

The McPherson County Community Foundation serves the common good for its residents building strong communities by engaging people in philanthropy and developing a permanent endowment to provide resources now and for generations to come.

$4.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
110
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$352k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$2.7MHealth$2.5MReligion$2.0MHuman Services$1.7MArts & Culture$1.4MInternational$755kRecreation & Sports$563kHousing & Shelter$442kOther$0
02FY2025 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 110 grants below total $4,133,331 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,315,275 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $181,944 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $234k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.0M
  • $250k+3 grants · $896k
$13,291
Median grant
12
States reached
$54M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Christian College Foundation$351,780
McPherson Hospital$293,907
Gideon's International Processing Center$250,000
Advancing Native Missions$247,100
Bethany College$210,000
YWAM Youth With A Mission - Houston$139,900
Cradle to Crayons Childcare Center$123,391
Child Evangelism Fellowship$113,000
Compassion International$109,000
Lindsborg Child Development Center$105,447
Bethany Home Association$99,835
USD 400$97,535
Live Free Ministries$92,000
Christ's Kids Childcare$85,981
Elyria Christian School$75,850
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $684k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $10k → 16%Adopt A Native Elder: $15k → 5%Adopt a Native Elder: $10k → 5%Parkside Homes: $24k → 10%Adopt a Native Elder: $10k → 5%Marquette Learning Center: $55k → 10%BLUESTEM PACE: $11k → 9%Bluestem Pace: $11k → 9%Bluestem PACE Inc: $6k → 9%Marquette Learning Center: $10k → 10%Christ's Kids Childcare: $86k → 10%Christ Kid s Childcare Center: $9k → 10%THE CEDARS: $43k → 10%Cedars: $30k → 10%MCPHERSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $16k → 10%MCPHERSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $16k → 10%THE CEDARS: $15k → 10%MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER: $14k → 10%Cedars: $11k → 10%THE CEDARS: $11k → 10%The Cedars: $6k → 10%MOBILITY WORLDWIDE: $10k → 10%Mobility WorldwidePET: $6k → 10%SPROUT HOUSE LEARNING CENTER: $88k → 10%Sprout House Learning Center: $60k → 10%Sprout House Learning Center: $35k → 10%Smoky Valley Historical Association: $21k → 10%Lindsborg Senior Center: $20k → 10%LINDSBORG SENIOR CENTER: $20k → 10%LINDSBORG SENIOR CENTER: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
IL
MA
OH
UT
CO
MO
VA
KS
TN
NC
DC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 97 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

97 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
75

Total granted

$12M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+43%

Still filing today

51%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $662k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationReligionInternationalOther

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

  • MH
    McPherson Hospital Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +11%
  • EC
    ELYRIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $867k · revenue +17% · 28% of their budget
  • MO
    MCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $460k · revenue +129% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • AO
    All Other Grants to Organization
    one grant, 2021 · $1.4M
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +11%
  • LC
    Lindsborg Community Health Care Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -40%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Labette County Medical Center

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

Health
2
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Inc

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

Health
3
Frankfort Community Care Home Inc

The organization owns and operates a skilled nursing facility for the elderly and disabled in Frankfort, Kansas.

—
4
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

—
5
Health Ministries Clinic Inc

To promote and improve the quality of life by providing integrated healthcare services to the entire community in the name and spirit of Christ

Religion
6
Kansas Affordable Housing Corporation

Provide support for mennonite housing rehabilitation services, inc., which provides low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with ownership opportunities and the…

Housing & Shelter
7
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
8
Presbyterian Manors Inc

To provide quality active senior living and health care within a christian-based community through a continuum of service founded upon the values of respect, dignity, and independence.

Human Services
9
Friends of Kansas Christian Home Inc

Nursing and independent living facility The organization owns and operates a skilled nursing facility and independent living units for the elderly and disabled.

Housing & Shelter
10
Mennonite Friendship Communities Inc

Enhancing the Quality of Life of residents, staff and community at large within a framework of Mennonite values.

Human Services
11
Villa St Francis Catholic Care Center Inc

Villa st francis, a catholic, non-profit skilled nursing facility sponsored by the archdiocese of kansas city in olathe, provides dementia care, skilled nursing, respite, and hospice.

Housing & Shelter
12
Mennonite Housing Rehabilitation Services Inc

Provide low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with homes

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Social ServicesChristian Missionary and Ev…Healthcare System OperationsAffordable Housing ProvidersKansas Community DevelopmentYouth Mentoring & Support S…Early Childhood Care and Ed…Performing Arts Organizatio…Employee Benefit TrustsIndependent K-12 SchoolsFaith-Based Educational Ins…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number29%3%<5yr17%5%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%17%20–35yr8%33%35–55yr8%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value29%1%<5yr17%6%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr17%16%20–35yr8%44%35–55yr8%24%55yr+

The field is 29% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 18% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/169
the rest of the field
18%
3,819/20,758

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 206 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/77
Grantees still filing
48/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

All Other Grants to Organization — $1,358,011 · OtherAll Other Grants to OrganizationADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS — $507,000 · OtherADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONSCITY OF LINDSBORG REC DEPT — $426,945 · OtherCITY OF LINDSBORG REC DEPTGIDEONS INTERNATIONAL — $310,000 · Other+152 more — $5,339,084 · Other+152 moreMcPherson Hospital Inc — $1,886,139 · HealthMcPherson Hospit…Mercy Hospital Inc — $94,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $90,000 · Health+4 more — $119,541 · Health+4 moreELYRIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $866,639 · EducationELYRIA CHRISTI…CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS — $393,490 · EducationCENTRAL CHRIST…BETHANY COLLEGE — $277,000 · EducationBETHANY COLLEG…MCPHERSON COLLEGE — $251,330 · EducationMCPHERSON COLL…Tabor College — $89,246 · Education+1 more — $25,000 · EducationMCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY — $459,633 · Arts & CultureLINDSBORG OLD MILL AND SWEDISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $372,983 · Arts & CultureMcPherson Museum & Arts Foundation — $140,907 · Arts & CultureBIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $64,210 · Arts & CultureKANSAS SAMPLER FOUNDATION INC — $38,228 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $36,651 · Arts & CultureYouth with a Mission - Houston — $257,500 · Human ServicesLindsborg Child Development Center — $204,283 · Human ServicesTHE CEDARS INC — $116,438 · Human ServicesCHRIST'S KIDS PRESCHOOL FOUNDATION — $94,981 · Human ServicesMARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER INC — $78,736 · Human ServicesLINDSBORG SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $45,050 · Human ServicesAdopt-A-Native Elder — $35,000 · Human Services+6 more — $121,871 · Human ServicesLIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC — $507,101 · ReligionSeed of Abraham Ministries Inc — $98,400 · ReligionCalled to Life International Inc — $64,200 · Religion+2 more — $24,400 · ReligionALELUYA MINISTRIES OF HOPE INC — $184,200 · InternationalCompassion International Incorporated — $144,736 · InternationalMATAMOROS CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $64,000 · InternationalALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC — $20,300 · International+1 more — $10,000 · International
Other$7,941,040Health$2,189,680Education$1,902,705Arts & Culture$1,112,612Human Services$953,859Religion$694,101International$423,236

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMcPherson Hospital Inc — $1,886,139 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetELYRIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC — $866,639 over 7y, 28% of budgetLIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC — $507,101 over 5y, 22% of budgetADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS — $507,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetMCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY — $459,633 over 7y, 26% of budgetCENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS — $393,490 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetLINDSBORG OLD MILL AND SWEDISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC — $372,983 over 3y, 31% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE — $277,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYouth with a Mission - Houston — $257,500 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE — $251,330 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLindsborg Child Development Center — $204,283 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetALELUYA MINISTRIES OF HOPE INC — $184,200 over 7y, 22% of budgetMCPHERSON HOUSING COALITION INC — $167,704 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetBETHANY HOME ASSOCIATION OF LINDSBORG KANSAS — $149,285 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMT HOPE SANCTUARY INC — $142,504 over 4y, 48% of budgetMcPherson County Community Foundation — $141,288 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMcPherson Museum & Arts Foundation — $140,907 over 4y, 45% of budgetTHE CEDARS INC — $116,438 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMCPHERSON FAMILY YMCA — $105,956 over 6y, 9.5% of budgetMcPherson Hospital Inc Employee Group Benefit Trust — $98,683 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSeed of Abraham Ministries Inc — $98,400 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHRIST'S KIDS PRESCHOOL FOUNDATION — $94,981 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMercy Hospital Inc — $94,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTabor College — $89,246 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN OUTREACH INC — $82,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetMARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER INC — $78,736 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION POST 140 — $78,595 over 2y, 57% of budgetBOB KING MINISTRIES — $73,600 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetRiverview Estates Inc — $69,114 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $64,210 over 3y, 11% of budgetMATAMOROS CHILDREN'S HOME INC — $64,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION 24 HARRY B DORST — $63,661 over 4y, 18% of budgetCASA A VOICE FOR CHILDREN INC — $56,648 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED CHURCHES OF LINDSBORG INC — $52,480 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MCPHERSON COUNTY INC — $52,030 over 2y, 12% of budgetMCPHERSON COUNTY FOOD BANK INC — $50,859 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetMCPHERSON SENIOR CENTER — $45,500 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetLINDSBORG SENIOR CITIZENS INC — $45,050 over 3y, 19% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF MCPHERSON KS INC — $43,382 over 3y, 20% of budgetKANSAS SAMPLER FOUNDATION INC — $38,228 over 1y, 28% of budgetAdopt-A-Native Elder — $35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetVETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS FRED E ELLIS 2715 POST — $31,994 over 3y, 10% of budgetMCPHERSON COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING — $31,785 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetMCPHERSON AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetBLUESTEM PACE INC — $27,880 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMCPHERSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $27,399 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 McPherson Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds ELYRIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVANCING NATIVE MISSIONS ↗
  • Who funds MCPHERSON OPERA HOUSE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds LINDSBORG OLD MILL AND SWEDISH HERITAGE MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Youth with a Mission - Houston ↗
  • Who funds MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Lindsborg Child Development Center ↗
  • Who funds ALELUYA MINISTRIES OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds MCPHERSON HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHANY HOME ASSOCIATION OF LINDSBORG KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds MT HOPE SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds McPherson County Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds McPherson Museum & Arts Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CEDARS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD EVANGELISM FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds MCPHERSON FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds McPherson Hospital Inc Employee Group Benefit Trust ↗
  • Who funds Seed of Abraham Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST'S KIDS PRESCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Tabor College ↗
  • Who funds URBAN OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 140 ↗

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.

Greater Salina Commun…Julia J Mingenback Fo…Elmer Dalke Charitabl…Saint Stephen's of Ka…Kansas Association of…Ketcherside Family Fo…United Way of McPhers…Central Kansas Commun…Je and le Mabee Found…Hutchinson Community …Farmers Alliance Comp…Kansas Independent Co…
Greater Salina Community FoundationKS38.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Julia J Mingenback Foundation Inc · Elmer Dalke Charitable Foundation · Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Ketcherside Family Foundation Inc · United Way of McPherson County Inc · Central Kansas Community Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Hutchinson Community Foundation · Farmers Alliance Companies Charitable Foundation · Kansas Independent College Association

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 McPherson County Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
18report 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 206 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines