Kansas · Public charity
Salina Area United Way Inc
Strengthening north central kansas by uniting people and resources to build resilient, thriving communities.
- $654k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $130,940
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Salina Area United Way Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $180k 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 | 15 | $649k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $568k | 20% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $394k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $60k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $90k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $60k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $276k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $280k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salina Child Care Association Inc | $462,391 | 8 | 15% |
| Salina YMCA Endowment Foundation | $425,528 | 3 | 50% |
| Child Advocacy and Parenting Service Inc | $344,531 | 8 | 11% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Salina Inc | $219,998 | 9 | 16% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Child Development Center Inc | $219,540 | 2 | 21% |
| Ashby House Ltd | $194,963 | 5 | 6% |
| Magnolia Kids Childcare Center | $110,995 | 2 | n/a |
| Consumer Credit Counseling Service Inc | $91,294 | 3 | n/a |
| St Mary Queen of the Universe Parish | $85,340 | 1 | n/a |
| Domestic Violence Association of Central Kansas Inc | $80,004 | 1 | 5% |
Show all 32 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Salina Area United Way Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 24 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: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Walker Family Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Horejsi Charitable Foundation Inc · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation
How this is measured
About Salina Area United Way Inc
- How much does Salina Area United Way Inc give?
- Salina Area United Way Inc reported 15 grants totaling $654,087 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Salina Area United Way Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (68%), Youth Development (11%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Salina Area United Way Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Salina Child Care Association Inc ($462k), Salina YMCA Endowment Foundation ($426k), Child Advocacy and Parenting Service Inc ($345k).
- Does Salina Area United Way Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Salina Area United Way Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Salina Community Foundation, Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc, Smoot Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Salina Area United Way Inc based?
- Salina Area United Way Inc is based in KS.
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