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SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY

The seward county united way provides funding to various local non-profit organizations that operate to benefit the local community.

$144k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $129,375 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $143,575 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,200 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 $10k6 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $83k
$9,375
Median grant
2
States reached
$283k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STEPPING STONE SHELTER$21,375
LARCDVS$20,250
CROSSROADS CENTER$15,000
RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT$14,625
HOMECARE INC$12,000
SALVATION ARMY$9,375
KIDS INC$9,000
KANSAS CHILDRENS SERV$8,250
SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN$7,500
LIBERAL WEISSEL BOXING$6,000
GENESIS FAMILY HEALTH$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $280k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERV: $11k → 12%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERV: $8k → 12%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERV: $8k → 12%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERV: $8k → 12%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERV: $8k → 12%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERV: $8k → 12%SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN: $24k → 14%RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT: $20k → 14%RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT: $19k → 14%SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN: $19k → 14%RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT: $16k → 14%RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT: $16k → 14%RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT: $15k → 14%RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT: $15k → 14%RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT: $15k → 14%RUSSEL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENT: $13k → 14%SEWARD COUNTY SENIOR CARE: $11k → 14%SEWARD COUNTY SENIOR CARE: $11k → 14%SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN: $10k → 14%SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN: $10k → 14%SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN: $10k → 14%SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGIN: $8k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 20 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -74% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
4

Total granted

$1.5M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-74%

Still filing today

45%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • LA
    LIBERAL AREA RAPE CRISIS & dba LARC DVS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $233k · revenue +29%
  • TR
    THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +19%
  • SC
    SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • SC
    SW CO SENIOR CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • SC
    SEWARD COUNTY SENIOR CARE
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS- KANSAS CO
    one grant, 2018 · $7k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Kansas Court Appointed Special Advocates

Provides a voice for abused and neglected children who are under the legal protection of the court system

Civil Rights
2
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
3
Self-Advocate Coalition of Kansas Inc

Advocacy for disabled people

Health
4
Kansas Casa Association Inc

To provide fundraising & administrative assistance to casa organizations throughout the state of kansas

Crime & Legal
5
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kansas Inc

The children's advocacy center of kansas (cacks) is committed to securing appropriate resources for ensuring the healthy establishment and sustainability of kansas child advocacy centers and the kansas chapter. cacks is committed to…

Youth Development
6
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
7
Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health
8
Tri-County Casa Inc

Tri-county casa, inc. volunteers advocate for children in the 13th judicial district in butler, greenwood, and elk counties in kansas.

Civil Rights
9
First Judicial District Casa Association

Protecting children today for stronger families tomorrow.

Civil Rights
10
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
11
Sunlight Children's Services Inc

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

12
Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center Inc

Wichita area sexual assault center works with individuals and communities through comprehensive services and education to create a culture of intolerance for sexual violence and an atmosphere of healing for those impacted by it.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League and the most unlike its peers is Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LIBERAL AREA RAPE CRISIS & dba LARC DVS — $233,250 · OtherLIBERAL AREA RAPE CRISIS & dba LARC DVSCROSSROADS CENTER INC — $138,560 · OtherCROSSROADS CENTER INCHOMECARE CORPORATION — $126,000 · OtherHOMECARE CORPORATIONLIBERAL KIDS INC — $103,000 · OtherLIBERAL KIDS INCSanta Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc — $66,000 · OtherSanta Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America IncLIBERAL WEISSEL BOXING INC — $66,000 · OtherLIBERAL WEISSEL BOXING INCSALVATION ARMY — $57,625 · OtherSALVATION ARMYUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC — $34,000 · Other+10 more — $159,875 · Other+10 moreTHE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $128,125 · Human ServicesTHE RUSSELL CHILD DE…SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $102,103 · Human ServicesSEWARD COUNTY COUNCI…KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE — $50,250 · Human ServicesKANSAS CHILDRENS SER…STEPPING STONE SHELTER INC — $226,625 · Housing & ShelterSTEPPING STONE S…Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center — $32,000 · Crime & LegalGIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC — $13,000 · Youth Development
Other$984,310Human Services$280,478Housing & Shelter$226,625Crime & Legal$32,000Youth Development$13,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIBERAL AREA RAPE CRISIS & dba LARC DVS — $233,250 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetSTEPPING STONE SHELTER INC — $226,625 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $128,125 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC — $102,103 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetSanta Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc — $66,000 over 4y, 4.7% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE — $50,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC — $34,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Kansas Child Advocacy Center — $32,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC — $13,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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 LIBERAL AREA RAPE CRISIS & dba LARC DVS
  • Who funds STEPPING STONE SHELTER INC
  • Who funds THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
  • Who funds SEWARD COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC
  • Who funds Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc
  • Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE
  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF KANSAS INC

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.

Cooper Clark FoundationKS24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cooper Clark Foundation · Baughman Foundation · Western Kansas Community Foundation · Rundell Charitable Foundation Trust · Finnup Foundation · Finney County United Way Inc · Kansas Health 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 SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY?

    Find your warmest path to SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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