· Private foundation
Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALINA PRESBYTERIAN MANOR ENDOWMENT FUND | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SALINA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| PRAIRIELAND MARKET | $20,000 |
| SYLVAN SENIOR CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| KANSAS MISSION DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SALINA ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS | $5,000 |
| STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SALINA SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 89% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- SPSALINA PRESBYTERIAN MANOR ENDOWMENT FUND2× · 2023–2024 · $262k · revenue +292%
- KWKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY2× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +43%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PUPARADISE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $50k
- LCLindsborg Child Development Centerone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -54%
- YMYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansasgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +28%
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
To serve our community at the crossroads of compassionate healthcare and professional education.
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.
Provide child care and sponsor the child and adult care food program.
Our mission is to save and preserve the historic salina temple building for use as a community resource center.
To support and further the development, public awareness, and interest in the fine and performing arts and humanities in salina, kansas. to be a supporting organization to the city of salina, kansas, the arts and humanities commission and…
The advancement of charitable, religious, scientific, literary, or educational purposes. financial aid and assistance will be provided to the young men's christian association of salina, kansas and other causes and institutions related to,…
Support services for saline memorial hospital.
Enrichment programs and other projects aimed at enhancing the quality of education and educational opportunities for all students.
The purpose of the Lindsborg Community Health Care Foundation is to coordinate and collaborate: Community health care entities, Health related philanthropic activities, Assessment of need for and the recruitment of professional medical…
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.
22 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. 22 of the 39 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 Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA PRESBYTERIAN MANOR ENDOWMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SYLVAN SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Lindsborg Child Development Center ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEV FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIELAND MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVER 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: Greater Salina Community Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Marshall Family Foundation Inc · Anderson Family Foundation · Zimmerman Family Foundation
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 Mildred and Rolland 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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