· Public charity
Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans
To assist the state of kansas in helping to improve the health of all kansans, particularly those unserved or underserved.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $796,310 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $838,214 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $41,904 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $504k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Thrive Allen County Inc | $274,750 |
| Kansas Department of Commerce | $41,972 |
| Kansas Trails Council | $35,000 |
| Wichita State University Community Engagement Institute | $33,088 |
| Kansas Rural Grocery Initiative - KSU | $27,000 |
| Genesis Family Health | $25,000 |
| Mercy and Truth Medical Missions Inc | $25,000 |
| Kansas Association of Community Foundations | $22,500 |
| Great Plains of Smith Co | $20,000 |
| RHR of Jackson Co (Holton) | $20,000 |
| Health Ministries | $20,000 |
| The Guidance Center | $20,000 |
| Harper County (Patterson Health) | $20,000 |
| Memorial Health System | $20,000 |
| Sheridan County HospitalHoxie | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $964k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 75% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +32% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
83 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 62 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- KFKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +42%
- CCCOMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $745k · revenue +70%
- HMHEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC8× · 2017–2025 · $580k · revenue +458%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $375k · revenue +65%
- HKHEADQUARTERS KANSAS INCone grant, 2022 · $205k · revenue +7%
- CFCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INCone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -14%
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.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.
Providing innovative research, message guidance, communication training, communication expertise,and collaborative strategies to aligned organizations to grow their capacity and improve collaborationand coordination among partner groups in…
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.
To advance the health of the douglas county community through comprehensive behavioral health services responsive to evolving needs and changing environments.
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
Ensure the availability of quality mental health services to consumers of high plains mental health center
Provide healthcare services and resources to courtland kansas and the surrounding rural communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Advocates for Better Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tower Mental Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
224 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. 224 of the 291 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH MINISTRIES CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE ALLEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF LOCAL HEALTH DEPARTMENTS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING TREE INSTITUTE AT GREENBUSH ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Healthcore Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC ↗
- Who funds CAREARC INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds LABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK NORTHEAST REVITALIZATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds HEALTHTEAMWORKS ↗
- Who funds RURAL HEALTH RESOURCES OF JACKSON CO INC ↗
- Who funds Community HealthCare System Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
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 · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Health Forward Foundation · Topeka Community Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · The Patterson Family Foundation · Wichita Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · The Reach Healthcare Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable 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 Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans 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.
- Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation — 83% of income from government
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.