Kansas · 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.
- $325k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $22,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $290k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $589k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $499k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $337k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $438k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $601k | 75% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| McPherson College | $3,001,100 | 9 | 2% |
| The Cedars Inc | $643,919 | 9 | 1% |
| Central Christian College of Kansas | $126,000 | 3 | 1% |
| McPherson Housing Coalition Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 18% |
| McPherson Healthcare Foundation Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 8% |
| Ashby House Ltd | $66,257 | 1 | 7% |
| Live Free Ministries Inc | $55,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Tabor College | $45,952 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Kansas Conservancy Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 77% |
| Ellsworth County Medical Center | $34,469 | 5 | n/a |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust
- How much does Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust give?
- Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $325,007 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Human Services (13%), Health (11%).
- Who are Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: McPherson College ($3.0M), The Cedars Inc ($644k), Central Christian College of Kansas ($126k).
- Does Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include McPherson County Community Foundation, Julia J Mingenback Foundation Inc, Farmers Alliance Companies Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust based?
- Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust is based in KS.
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