· Community foundation
Scott Community Foundation
Preserve local wealth so the communities in and around Scott County, Kansas will forever remain attractive places to live, work and raise a family.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $671,625 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,521,851 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $850,226 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $178k
- $250k+1 grant · $424k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USD 466 Scott County | $424,013 |
| Individual grant recipient | $33,287 |
| First United Methodist Church | $26,389 |
| Spencer Flight & Education Center | $22,500 |
| Scott County Ministerial Alliance | $16,530 |
| Scott Community Golf Course | $16,300 |
| First Christian Church | $12,647 |
| Scott Recreation Commission | $10,526 |
| Camp Christy | $10,235 |
| Scott County VIP Center | $10,000 |
| New Hope Children's Farm | $10,000 |
| Lakeside United Methodist Center | $10,000 |
| Southwind Golf and Dining | $8,279 |
| Klotz Sand Co Inc | $7,937 |
| Top Guns LLC | $7,519 |
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 (FY17–21, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +23% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $114k 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
- SFSPENCER FLIGHT & EDUCATION CENTER I5× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +543% · 56% of their budget
- WKWestern Kansas Child Advocacy Center4× · 2018–2022 · $57k · revenue +19%
- SCSCOTT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- SCSCOTT CITY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue -13% · 27% of their budget
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SCScott County Museumone grant, 2023 · $24k
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.
Preserve local wealth so the communities in and around Scott County, Kansas will forever remain attractive places to live, work and raise a family.
To provide funding to Scott County Hospital, Scott City, Kansas through independent fundraising activities.
Promote commerce and public welfare.
Rescue in emergency accidents
Public transportation
Preserve history
To promote area commerce
Organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. solicits funds and other gifts.
Raise and distribute funds and other resources to support housing in the scott and rock island county area.
Operation of career and technical education facility in southeast kansas
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scott County Rest Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stepping Up Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 69 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 STEPPING UP INC ↗
- Who funds SPENCER FLIGHT & EDUCATION CENTER I ↗
- Who funds Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds SCOTT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Lane County Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CITY AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SCOTT COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTT COMMUNITY GOLF COURSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SCOTT CITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
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: Western Kansas Community Foundation · 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 Scott Community Foundation 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.