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Salina Area United Way Inc

Strengthening north central kansas by uniting people and resources to build resilient, thriving communities.

$654k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$131k
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.

Human Services$1.5MYouth Development$240kHousing & Shelter$198kHealth$99kFood & Nutrition$55kEducation$43kReligion$30kEnvironment$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $269k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $380k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER$130,940
SALINA FAMILY YMCA$109,407
ST MARY'S LOVE 'N' LEARN$85,340
SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION$54,200
BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS SALINA$25,000
FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION$25,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - CORONADO AREA COUNCIL$25,000
CENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER$25,000
CONSUMER CREDIT COUNSELING SERVICE INC$25,000
CAPS$25,000
INDEPENDENT CONNECTION$25,000
PAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES$25,000
PRAIRIELAND MARKET$25,000
LOVE CHLOE FOUNDATION$25,000
MAGNOLIA KIDS CHILDCARE CENTER$19,200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $226k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $134k → 13%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $131k → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $109k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $91k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $91k → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $90k → 13%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $89k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOC OF CENTRAL KANSAS: $80k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $54k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $49k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $26k → 13%INDEPENDENT CONNECTION: $25k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $8k → 13%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 15 repeat orgs$373k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
12

Total granted

$2.5M
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+47%

Still filing today

87%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterEnvironmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • SC
    SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $462k · revenue +62%
  • SY
    SALINA YMCA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $426k · revenue +506% · 50% of their budget
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +62%
  • FC
    FIRST COVENANT CHURCH SALINA KS
    one grant, 2023 · $14k
  • SC
    SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +109%
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
Salina Rescue Mission Inc

To be the body of christ in our community providing food, shelter, clothing and other basic needs to those are struggling and offer rehabilitative services in the name of jesus christ

Housing & Shelter
2
Salina Regional Health Center Inc

To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment

Health
3
Salina Community Economic Development Organization Inc

Promote and support economic development

Community Improvement
4
Saline Area Social Service Inc

Saline area social service provides food, emergency aid, and support to those in need in the saline community. sass aims to build a stronger community of neighbors helping neighbors.

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5
Salina Health Education Foundation

To serve our community at the crossroads of compassionate healthcare and professional education.

Education
6
Salina Education Foundation

To encourage educational excellance by providing resources to enchance opportunities for the students and staff of salina's public schools.

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7
Child & Family Service of Saginaw

Child and Family Service of Saginaw County is a social work agency dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in our community by fostering personal growth, emotional development, recovery from trauma, self- reliance, and healthy…

Human Services
8
Sunlight Children's Services Inc

To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.

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9
Salina Area Chamber of Commerceinc

To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.

Community Improvement
10
Salina Area United Way Inc

Strengthening north central kansas by uniting people and resources to build resilient, thriving communities.

Philanthropy
11
Salina Christian Academy Inc

Christian education

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12
Saline County Medical Foundation

Support services for saline memorial hospital.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocacy and Parenting Service Inc; the most unlike its peers is St John's Missionary Baptist Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC: $344,531 · OtherCHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC: $219,998 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INCMAGNOLIA KIDS CHILDCARE CENTER: $110,995 · OtherMAGNOLIA KIDS CHILDCARE CENTERConsumer Credit Counseling Service Inc: $91,294 · OtherConsumer Credit Counseling Service IncST MARY QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE PARISH: $85,340 · OtherST MARY QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE PARISHCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $79,485 · OtherCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTERST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH: $78,521 · OtherST JOHN'S MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCHPAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $69,750 · OtherPAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INCBoy Scouts of America Council 192 Coronado Area: $69,750 · OtherBoy Scouts of America Council 192 Coronado Area+8 more: $106,500 · Other+8 moreSALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $462,391 · Human ServicesSALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INCSALINA YMCA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $425,528 · Human ServicesSALINA YMCA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIONMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $219,540 · Human ServicesMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER I…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $80,004 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS …+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesASHBY HOUSE LTD: $194,963 · Housing & ShelterSALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $8,600 · Housing & ShelterPRAIRIELAND MARKET INC: $69,750 · Food & NutritionLOVE CHLOE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationSPARKWHEEL INC: $25,000 · EducationSOUTHEAST OF SALINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,824 · EducationCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SALINA EDUCATION FUND: $8,124 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EnvironmentKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES: $10,000 · EnvironmentSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,256,164Human Services$1,212,463Housing & Shelter$203,563Food & Nutrition$69,750Education$67,948Environment$35,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $462,391 over 8y, 15% of budgetSALINA YMCA ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $425,528 over 3y, 50% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC: $344,531 over 8y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC: $219,998 over 9y, 16% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $219,540 over 2y, 21% of budgetASHBY HOUSE LTD: $194,963 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $80,004 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $79,485 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC: $69,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIELAND MARKET INC: $69,750 over 3y, 36% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Council 192 Coronado Area: $69,750 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetINDEPENDENT CONNECTION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetConsumer Credit Counseling Service of Springfield: $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLOVE CHLOE FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSALINA SHARES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHEAST OF SALINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $9,824 over 1y, 36% of budgetSALINA GRACE FOUNDATION: $8,600 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF SALINA EDUCATION FUND: $8,124 over 1y, 6.0% 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.

Greater Salina Commun…Mike Berkley Family F…Smoot Charitable Foun…Salina Regional Healt…Verla Nesbitt Joscely…Earl Bane FoundationMcCune & Middlekauff …Milton I and Frances …Walker Family Foundat…Morrison Foundation T…Horejsi Charitable Fo…Mildred and Rolland M…
Greater Salina Community FoundationKS45.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Salina Area United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Salina Area United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 32 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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