· Private foundation
Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of MILTON I AND FRANCES L STIEFEL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $98k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF KANSAS | $15,000 |
| SALINA ANIMAL SERVICES | $15,000 |
| SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUND | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,000 |
| NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICES | $10,000 |
| SALINA EMERGENCY AID FOOD BANK INC | $5,000 |
| SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC | $5,000 |
| SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE INC | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA | $5,000 |
| ROLLING HILLS ZOO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSN OF CENTRAL K | $5,000 |
| THE SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY CARE SERVICES I | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 7 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- SHSALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +154%
- SESALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +32%
- SASALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +342%
Funded once
- SRSALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -57%
- PMPRAIRIELAND MARKET INCone grant, 2024 · $8k
- SASALINA ART CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -50%
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 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
Our mission is to save and preserve the historic salina temple building for use as a community resource center.
To provide care and refuge for animals in need.
Serve persons with terminal illness and their families, using multidisciplinary team of medical and social service professionals, and provide community outreach by offering grief support groups and end of life education.
Support older persons in their efforts to live safely, independently, non-institutionalized, and with dignity.
Building houses for low income families.
Support services for saline memorial hospital.
The salina presbyterian manor endowment fund is a support organization of the salina presbyterian manor, one of several facilities of presbyterian manors of mid-america, inc., a non-profit corporation. the sole activity of the endowment…
Library for benefit of public
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 37 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 SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Salina Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA GRACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIELAND MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOWZAD DOGS NFP ↗
- Who funds SALINA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas ↗
- Who funds ROLLING HILLS ZOO 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: McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust · Horejsi Charitable Foundation Inc · Marshall Family Foundation Inc
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 Milton I and Frances L Stiefel 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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