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Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation at a glance

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Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$441k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$703kEducation$596kHealth$295kArts & Culture$257kHousing & Shelter$240kHuman Services$182kPublic Safety & Disaster$95kReligion$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 GRACE FOUNDATION$5,000
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
SALINA ART CENTER$5,000
STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$5,000
SALINA SYMPHONY$5,000
SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 14%SPROUT HOUSE LEARNING CENTER: $30k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%SYLVAN SENIOR CENTER INC: $50k → 11%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS: $50k → 13%SYLVAN SENIOR CENTER INC: $15k → 11%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 26 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
9

Total granted

$1.9M
$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+38%

Still filing today

54%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SP
    SALINA PRESBYTERIAN MANOR ENDOWMENT FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $262k · revenue +292%
  • KW
    KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +43%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • PU
    PARADISE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • LC
    Lindsborg Child Development Center
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -63%
  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +26%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Salina Community Economic Development Organization Inc

Promote and support economic development

Community Improvement
2
Salina Health Education Foundation

To serve our community at the crossroads of compassionate healthcare and professional education.

Education
3
Salina Area Chamber of Commerceinc

To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.

Community Improvement
4
Salina Regional Health Center Inc

To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment

Health
5
South Central Community Foundation

To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
6
Salina Child Care Association Inc

Provide child care and sponsor the child and adult care food program.

Human Services
7
Salina Innovation Foundation

Our mission is to save and preserve the historic salina temple building for use as a community resource center.

Arts & Culture
8
Salina Arts and Humanities Foundation

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…

Arts & Culture
9
Salina Ymca Endowment Foundation

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,…

Human Services
10
Saline County Medical Foundation

Support services for saline memorial hospital.

Unclassified
11
Foundation for Saline Area Schools

Enrichment programs and other projects aimed at enhancing the quality of education and educational opportunities for all students.

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12
Lindsborg Community Health Care Foundation Inc

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Regional Health Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 39 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $205,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYIndividual grant recipient: $195,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF THE SALINA PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $150,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE SALINA PUBLIC LIBRARY INCSALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM: $125,000 · OtherSALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUMPARADISE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherSTIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $40,000 · Other+17 more: $186,500 · Other+17 moreGreater Salina Community Foundation: $431,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Salina Community Founda…SALINA PRESBYTERIAN MANOR ENDOWMENT FUND: $262,000 · PhilanthropySALINA PRESBYTERIAN MANOR ENDOW…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropySALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $285,000 · HealthSALINA REGIO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…SYLVAN SENIOR CENTER INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesSYLVAN SENI…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VI…Lindsborg Child Development Center: $30,000 · Human ServicesLindsborg C…Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $25,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's…KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationKANSAS WES…KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationKANSAS STA…SALINA ART CENTER INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterSALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterASHBY HOUSE LTD: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$951,500Philanthropy$703,000Health$285,000Human Services$265,000Education$225,000Arts & Culture$70,000Housing & Shelter$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Salina Community Foundation: $431,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetSALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $285,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSALINA PRESBYTERIAN MANOR ENDOWMENT FUND: $262,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $90,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSYLVAN SENIOR CENTER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSALINA ART CENTER INC: $40,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetLindsborg Child Development Center: $30,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetPRAIRIELAND MARKET INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLINCOLN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEV FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSALINA SYMPHONY INC: $16,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetASHBY HOUSE LTD: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
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 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 Lindsborg Child Development Center ↗
  • Who funds SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas ↗
  • Who funds SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIELAND MARKET INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN COUNTY ECONOMIC DEV FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds SALINA SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
  • Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVER 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.

Greater Salina Commun…McCune & Middlekauff …Smoot Charitable Foun…Earl Bane FoundationMike Berkley Family F…Milton I and Frances …Morrison Foundation T…Salina Regional Healt…Verla Nesbitt Joscely…Marshall Family Found…Anderson Family Found…Zimmerman Family Foun…
Greater Salina Community FoundationKS42× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mildred and Rolland 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.

    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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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