· Private foundation
The Bill & Erma Riley Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of The Bill & Erma Riley Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Greater Manhattan Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Bill & Erma Riley Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $13k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Haskell University Foundation | $2,500 |
| Island Green Association | $2,500 |
| Manhattan Community Foundation | $1,500 |
| Gage County Historial Museum | $1,000 |
| American Indian College Fund | $1,000 |
| Southwest Reservation Aid Fund | $1,000 |
| USD 497 Schwegler Elementary | $500 |
| True Colors | $500 |
| Lawrence Schools Foundation | $500 |
| Kansas 4-H Foundation | $500 |
| Manhattan Community Foundation-YES | $500 |
| Ranchland Trust | $100 |
| Manhattan Library Foundation | $100 |
| KSDS Assistance Dogs Inc | $100 |
| KARL | $100 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
37 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2023, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- K4Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +24%
- MLMANHATTAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $650 · revenue +108%
- BABE ABLE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $600 · revenue +64%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500
- GGGreen Gablesone grant, 2022 · $500
- MSManhattanOgden School Fdtnone grant, 2017 · $500
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.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Kansas city community gardens is dedicated to improving the quality of life of low-income households and other members of the community by helping them grow their own nutritious fruits and vegatables. the member gardners develop…
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.
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.
Zealously advocating for the disability rights of kansans to protect their full participation as citizens.
The kansas city country club is a traditional, private, family-oriented country club dedicated to providing outstanding year-round dining, social and athletic activities to its members and their guests through superior services, staff and…
To feed the hungry by soliciting and receiving food and other goods from local, regional and national food companies and other enterprises
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 57 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
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 4-H Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BE ABLE INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER URBAN GARDENS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds Manhattan Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds EMBERHOPE INC ↗
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: Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Manhattan Fund - Caroline F Peine Charitable · Memorial Hospital Association Inc · Konza United Way Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Daniel Keating Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bill & Erma Riley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bill & Erma Riley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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