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Parsons Area Community Foundation
The mission is to improve the quality of life in the greater parsons area by increasing the opportunities for charitable giving, connecting donors to community needs and providing leadership on important community issues now and for future generations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $546,271 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $698,113 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,842 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $282k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $198k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LABETTE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $101,660 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $96,626 |
| CITY OF PARSONS | $40,202 |
| LABETTE COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE | $37,394 |
| ST PATRICK CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $37,200 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $35,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF PARSONS | $30,469 |
| LABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH | $22,676 |
| USD 503 PARSONS SCHOOLS | $17,100 |
| LABETTE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER | $14,904 |
| EDEN EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY | $14,186 |
| CURIOUS MINDS DISCOVERY ZONE | $11,853 |
| PARSONS RECREATION COMMISSION | $10,545 |
| HHT FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| PROUD ANIMAL LOVERS SHELTER | $9,845 |
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 (FY17–24, $272k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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
- LCLABETTE COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $258k · revenue +12% · 28% of their budget
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +100%
- LCLABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC7× · 2017–2024 · $143k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- KCKENSINGTON COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $90k
- U5USD 506 MEADOWVIEW SCHOOLSone grant, 2021 · $20k
- TITHE ITVERDIN COMPANYone grant, 2023 · $16k
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.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
The Organization's primary function is to finance, construct, renovate, expand, maintain, manage, lease, and otherwise operate certain real property for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, or to carry out the purposes of Labette…
At lancaster bible college, our focus is on the journey to fulfill god's purpose in students' lives. our mission has remained constant for over 90 years: (continued on schedule o).
The kansas pharmacy foundation is organized exclusively for scientific and educational purposes to further the welfare and integrity of the profession of pharmacy and for the enhancement of public health
The mission of kentucky christian university is to educate students for christian leadership and service in the church and in professions throughout the world.
Licking memorial hospital exists to improve the health of the community.
Historical museum and library. preservation of historical information and materials relating to barton county kansas.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
The mission is to improve the quality of life in the greater parsons area by increasing the opportunities for charitable giving, connecting donors to community needs and providing leadership on important community issues now and for future…
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
To educate, inspire, motivate and assist stakeholders in developing gifts supporting the human care provided by lutheran family services of nebraska, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pittsburg State University Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Curious Minds Discovery Zone Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
17 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. 17 of the 45 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 LABETTE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LABETTE COUNTY EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CURIOUS MINDS DISCOVERY ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Labette Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LABETTE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PROUD ANIMAL LOVERS SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds CELEBRATING PARSONS INC ↗
- Who funds VERTICAL FIRST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EDEN EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PARSONS STATE HOSPITAL ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLYDEHURST CHRISTIAN RANCH ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Alumni Association ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Labette County Medical Center · The Huizenga Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Parsons Area 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.
- Hht Foundation — 30% of income from government
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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