· Private foundation
Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| MCPHERSON COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| MCPHERSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $35,000 |
| LINDSBORG COMMUNITY HOSPITAL | $24,336 |
| USD 410 | $22,000 |
| TABOR COLLEGE | $15,082 |
| ST STEPHEN'S CHURCH | $15,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,522 |
| THE CEDAR'S INC | $1,067 |
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 (FY17–25, $644k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -66% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- MCMCPHERSON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +129%
- LFLIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC2× · 2018–2019 · $55k · revenue +17%
- TCTabor College3× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- MFMCCF FOR OPERA HOUSEone grant, 2024 · $150k
- MMMCPHERSON MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $150k
- MHMCPHERSON HOUSING COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +126%
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.
To work as an organization of individuals, businesses, and professionals to enhance the economic, civic, and cultural interests of the mcpherson area.
Educate members, advise decisions, finance needs, and invest in community
Hesston college is a nonprofit corporation whose purpose is to serve mennonite church usa in its educational interests and to maintain and operate a college for educational, benevolent, charitable, and religious purposes.
Support and promote overall health and wellness within the Harper County, Kansas, area and surrounding communities
Superior healthcare and exceptional service for each person, every time.
To operate and maintan suitable resident facilities and services for the care, treatment and rehabilitation of elderly persons, including non-acute health care, in which quality of life can be maintained at the lowest feasible cost.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
Provide support for mennonite housing rehabilitation services, inc., which provides low-income housing for the elderly and disabled through hud housing programs that provide low-income families with ownership opportunities and the…
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcpherson Housing Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Live Free Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 30 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 MCPHERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE CEDARS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF KANSAS ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds McPherson Healthcare Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds McPherson County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIVE FREE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Tabor College ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KANSAS CONSERVANCY 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: McPherson County Community Foundation · Julia J Mingenback Foundation Inc · Farmers Alliance Companies Charitable Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Elmer Dalke Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile 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 Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust 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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