· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $121k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCPHERSON COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| CENTRAL CHRISTIAN 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against -66% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saint Stephen's of Kansas Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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