· Community foundation
South Central Community Foundation
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
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 25 grants below total $539,725 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,378,332 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $838,607 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 $10k9 grants · $73k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $246k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $221k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pratt Community College Foundation | $96,795 |
| The Hope Center of Pratt | $67,300 |
| Pratt Health Foundation | $57,092 |
| USD 331 - Kingman-Norwich Schools | $39,125 |
| City of Pratt | $29,036 |
| Calvary Baptist Church of Stafford | $25,300 |
| USD 382 - Pratt Schools | $18,658 |
| USD 254 - Medicine Lodge Schools | $17,500 |
| Comanche County Economic Development Foundation | $17,000 |
| Youth Core Ministries | $17,000 |
| South Central Kansas Library Foundation | $16,000 |
| City of Kingman | $15,500 |
| Harvest Hub | $15,000 |
| Infant Crisis Service | $12,851 |
| KU Endowment | $11,966 |
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 (FY20–24, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +34% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
- PCPRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $504k · revenue ×13
- TSTHE ST JOHN HUDSON COMMUNITY USD 350 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · $350k · revenue +57% · 56% of their budget
- THTHE HOPE CENTER OF PRATT KS2× · 2022–2024 · $146k · revenue +8% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- TPTHE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.1M · revenue +118%
- ALASCENSION LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $125k
- ALASCENSION LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
To support members in farming
Promote Pittsburg, Kansas business and leadership.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
Promote the Pittsburg, Kansas business community.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
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 create a positive environment for business success in the junction city ks area.
The primary purpose of the Foundation is to provide financial support for charitable and educational purposes by making distributions and grants to elementary, secondary and post secondary students, teachers, professors, administrators and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stafford County Economic Development Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harvest Hub. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
34 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. 34 of the 66 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 THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ST JOHN HUDSON COMMUNITY USD 350 EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOPE CENTER OF PRATT KS ↗
- Who funds Pratt Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINGMAN AREA MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRATT COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds INFANT CRISIS SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds RICE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Pratt County 4 H Foundation ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PASSAGEWAYS LTD ↗
- Who funds VERNON FILLEY ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRISTUSA INC ↗
- Who funds LEADACHILD SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds Iroquois Center for Human Development Inc ↗
- Who funds BARCLAY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRATT COMMUNITY THEATRE 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.
Open a dossier: Kansas Health Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Rice County Community Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc · Wichita Foundation · Servant Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 South Central 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.