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Redbud Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$615k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$11MArts & Culture$2.2MHealth$1.4MPublic Benefit$426kCrime & Legal$300kCommunity Improvement$170kHuman Services$56kInternational$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $617k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$90,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hillsdale College$615,000
ACE Scholarships$500,000
Kansas Policy Institute$200,000
North Topeka Arts District Inc$114,000
American Council on Science and Health$100,000
Washburn University Foundation$90,000
Kansas Children's Discovery Center$62,800
SENT Inc$50,000
Sunflower Music Festival (Washburn University)$25,000
The Topeka Symphony Society$15,000
Friends For Life Inc$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Hoover Institution Stanford University: $300k → 8%Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy: $100k → 10%The Common Good Institute: $300k → 13%Hillsdale College: $615k → 14%War Horses for Veterans Inc: $50k → 5%Youth Entrepreneurs Inc: $110k → 16%Kansas State University: $2.1M → 20%The Rick Herrema Foundation: $400k → 16%ACE Scholarships: $1.1M → 12%University of Chicago: $400k → 14%Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy: $100k → 10%Kansas Children's Discovery Center: $230k → 14%Kansas Policy Institute: $200k → 16%Kansas State University: $105k → 20%The Rick Herrema Foundation: $400k → 16%ACE Scholarships: $953k → 12%University of Chicago: $400k → 14%Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy: $75k → 10%Kansas Children's Discovery Center: $115k → 14%Kansas Policy Institute: $200k → 16%Kansas State University: $101k → 20%The Rick Herrema Foundation: $400k → 16%ACE Scholarships: $700k → 12%Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy: $75k → 10%Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library: $100k → 14%Kansas Policy Institute: $100k → 16%Kansas State University: $80k → 20%ACE Scholarships: $616k → 12%Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy: $75k → 10%Washburn University Foundation: $90k → 14%Kansas Policy Institute: $90k → 16%Kansas State University: $80k → 20%ACE Scholarships: $500k → 12%Washburn University Foundation: $90k → 14%Kansas Policy Institute: $75k → 16%ACE Scholarships: $360k → 12%Washburn University Foundation: $90k → 14%Kansas Policy Institute: $75k → 16%ACE Scholarships: $250k → 12%Kansas Children's Discovery Center: $63k → 14%Kansas Policy Institute: $75k → 16%ACE Scholarships: $250k → 12%Kansas Children's Discovery Center: $62k → 14%Kansas Policy Institute: $50k → 16%Washburn University Foundation: $60k → 14%Kansas Children's Discovery Center: $60k → 14%Kansas Children's Discovery Center: $60k → 14%Topeka Collegiate School: $749k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
PA
CA
CO
MO
KS
NC
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 16% of Redbud Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Redbud Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 18 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +46% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
9

Total granted

$14M
$575k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+46%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
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

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +194%
  • TR
    THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $1.2M · revenue +125% · 44% of their budget
  • KP
    KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $865k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $300k · revenue +37% · 26% of their budget
  • YE
    Youth Entrepreneurs Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $110k · revenue -38%
  • TS
    Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
2
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
3
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
4
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
5
Peter G Peterson Institute for International Economics

The peterson institute for international economics (piie) is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to strengthening prosperity and human welfare in the global economy through expert analysis and practical…

Social Science
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Thomas Jefferson School

Thomas jefferson school engages its students in the education necessary to live as responsible citizens of the world. through the strongest possible college-prepatory program and within a nurturing community, students develop a…

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8
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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9
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
10
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Education Commission of the States

The mission of education commission of the states is to advocate for attaining educational excellence for all and to help state leaders identify, develop and implement public policy for education that addresses current and future needs of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Entrepreneurs Inc; the most unlike its peers is War Horses for Veterans Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 29 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $4,755,000 · EducationALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATIONKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $865,000 · EducationKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTETOPEKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $845,000 · EducationTOPEKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCUniversity of Chicago: $840,000 · EducationUniversity of ChicagoHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $615,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGEWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $390,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $345,000 · Education+1 more: $110,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $2,451,000 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERS…AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH: $200,000 · OtherAMERICAN COUNCIL ON …Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library: $100,000 · Other+7 more: $205,507 · Other+7 moreNORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INC: $1,435,750 · Arts & CultureNORTH TOPEKA A…KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $627,550 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CHILDRE…THE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 · HealthTHE RICK H…THE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 · HealthTHE COMMON…+2 more: $50,500 · HealthPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $425,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $51,697 · PhilanthropySENT INC: $170,000 · Community ImprovementFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $7,000 · Civil RightsCATO INSTITUTE: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Education$8,765,000Other$2,956,507Arts & Culture$2,063,300Health$1,550,500Philanthropy$476,697Community Improvement$170,000Civil Rights$7,000Public Benefit$1,000

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 budgetALLIANCE FOR CHOICE IN EDUCATION: $4,755,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetNORTH TOPEKA ARTS DISTRICT INC: $1,435,750 over 8y, 63% of budgetTHE RICK HERREMA FOUNDATION INC: $1,200,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $865,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetTOPEKA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $845,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $840,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $627,550 over 7y, 21% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $615,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $425,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $390,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $345,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMON GOOD INSTITUTE INC: $300,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH: $200,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSENT INC: $170,000 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetYouth Entrepreneurs Inc: $110,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTOPEKA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $89,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetThe Topeka Public Schools Foundation: $61,090 over 3y, 11% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC: $51,697 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWAR HORSES FOR VETERANS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID HOROWITZ FREEDOM CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORMONT-VAIL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Mark & Bette Morris F…Topeka Community Foun…Greater Kansas City C…Blanche Bryden Founda…Lewis Humphreys Chari…One Gas Foundation IncAmerican Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Natl Christian Charit…
Mark & Bette Morris Family FoundationKS15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Blanche Bryden Foundation · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · One Gas Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc

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 Redbud Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Redbud Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 29 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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