· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| Community HealthCare System | $20,000 |
| The Guidance Center | $20,000 |
| Harper County (Patterson Health) | $20,000 |
| Health Ministries | $20,000 |
| RHR of Jackson Co (Holton) | $20,000 |
| Coffey Health System | $20,000 |
| Rawlins County Dental Clinic | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +2%
- CFCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INCone grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue -14%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
224 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans. Bigger dots raise more.
- Southern Plains Tribal Health Board Foundation: 83% of income from government
How this is measured
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