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South Central Community Foundation
The Foundation's mission is to enhance the life, culture and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 25
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $616k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,037
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $30M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations South Central Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 28 | $562k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 25 | $540k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $418k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $329k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $399k | 32% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $354k | 52% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $1.4M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $381k | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peoples Heartland Foundation | $1,149,842 | 1 | n/a |
| Pratt Community College Foundation | $548,622 | 9 | 18% |
| The St John Hudson Community Usd 350 Educational Foundation | $349,548 | 5 | 56% |
| Ascension Lutheran Church | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Hope Center of Pratt Ks | $213,600 | 3 | 40% |
| City of Pratt | $126,418 | 8 | n/a |
| Ascension Lutheran Church | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pratt Health Foundation | $107,399 | 8 | 6% |
| The Calvary Baptist Church of Stafford Kansas | $96,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Kingman Area Ministries Inc | $92,106 | 9 | 36% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Peoples Heartland Foundation | $1,149,842 | 1 | n/a |
| Pratt Community College Foundation | $548,622 | 9 | 18% |
| The St John Hudson Community Usd 350 Educational Foundation | $349,548 | 5 | 56% |
| Ascension Lutheran Church | $250,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Hope Center of Pratt Ks | $213,600 | 3 | 40% |
| City of Pratt | $126,418 | 8 | n/a |
| Ascension Lutheran Church | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pratt Health Foundation | $107,399 | 8 | 6% |
| The Calvary Baptist Church of Stafford Kansas | $96,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Kingman Area Ministries Inc | $92,106 | 9 | 36% |
| Kansas State University Foundation | $88,539 | 6 | 0% |
| Kingman-Norwich Usd 331 | $88,026 | 2 | n/a |
| USD 382 - Pratt Schools | $83,562 | 7 | n/a |
| Pratt County Historical Society | $75,858 | 9 | 13% |
| Infant Crisis Services Inc | $74,945 | 6 | 0% |
| Youth Core Ministries Inc | $74,686 | 5 | 1% |
| Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas | $63,780 | 8 | n/a |
| Pratt County 4 H Foundation | $52,169 | 6 | 18% |
| Rice County Historical Society | $44,724 | 5 | 5% |
| South Central Kansas Library Foundation | $41,026 | 5 | n/a |
| USD 422 - Kiowa County Schools | $40,606 | 5 | n/a |
| Pratt Public Library | $40,310 | 5 | n/a |
| Sterling College | $39,235 | 5 | 0% |
| Commanche USD 300 | $38,900 | 5 | n/a |
| USD 254 - Medicine Lodge Schools | $36,894 | 4 | n/a |
| Usd 376 | $34,966 | 4 | n/a |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $33,591 | 3 | 0% |
| Stafford County Health Care Foundation | $30,411 | 4 | n/a |
| Passageways Ltd | $30,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Kingman Mennonite Church | $28,342 | 5 | n/a |
| Vernon Filley Art Museum Foundation | $28,054 | 2 | 14% |
| Youth for Christusa Inc | $26,179 | 3 | 0% |
| Leadachild Society | $25,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc | $24,942 | 3 | 0% |
| Comanche County Economic Development Foundation | $24,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mission Opportunities Short Term | $22,760 | 1 | 2% |
| Kingman Emergency Medical Services | $21,689 | 2 | n/a |
| Iroquois Center for Human Development Inc | $21,519 | 2 | 0% |
| Barclay College | $18,588 | 2 | 0% |
| Pratt Community Theatre Inc | $18,060 | 3 | 7% |
| Usd #350 | $16,875 | 2 | n/a |
| Harvest Hub | $15,000 | 1 | 15% |
| Lucille M Hall Museum for Education & History Inc | $14,481 | 1 | n/a |
| Usd 349 Stafford Scksec | $12,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Pratt Area Chamber of Commerce Inc | $10,620 | 2 | 7% |
| USD 401 - Chase-Raymond Schools | $10,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Youth For Christ South Central Kansas | $10,150 | 1 | 1% |
| Chief Community Theater Inc | $8,381 | 1 | 34% |
| Gospel Missionary Union | $8,050 | 1 | n/a |
| South Central Kansas Spec Ed Coop | $7,408 | 1 | n/a |
| Studio 96 | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Cunningham | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Kiowa District Hospital and Manor Foundation Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Beyond Barriers Kansas Inc | $6,912 | 1 | 1% |
| City of Stafford | $6,462 | 1 | n/a |
| South Barber Usd 255 | $6,129 | 1 | n/a |
| Stafford County Economic Development Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pratt County Council on Aging | $5,732 | 1 | n/a |
| Skyline Schools Foundation | $5,708 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Kingman | $5,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Horizons Mental Health Center Inc | $5,350 | 1 | 0% |
| 5 4 7 Arts Center | $5,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Miss Kansas Scholarship Foundation Inc | $5,179 | 1 | 1% |
| University Lutheran Ministry Assoc | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Kiowa County Economic Development | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Great Plains Christioan Radio Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
South Central Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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: 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
How this is measured
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About South Central Community Foundation
- How much does South Central Community Foundation give?
- South Central Community Foundation reported 29 itemized grants totaling $615,527, out of $1,064,101 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does South Central Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Philanthropy (29%), Religion (12%).
- Who are South Central Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Peoples Heartland Foundation ($1.1M), Pratt Community College Foundation ($549k), The St John Hudson Community Usd 350 Educational Foundation ($350k).
- Does South Central Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as South Central Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kansas Health Foundation, Land O'Lakes Foundation, Rice County Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is South Central Community Foundation based?
- South Central Community Foundation is based in KS.
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