· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 67% of The Bill & Erma Riley Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Island Green Association | $2,500 |
| Haskell University Foundation | $2,500 |
| Manhattan Community Foundation | $1,500 |
| American Indian College Fund | $1,000 |
| Gage County Historial Museum | $1,000 |
| Southwest Reservation Aid Fund | $1,000 |
| Manhattan Community Foundation-YES | $500 |
| Kansas 4-H Foundation | $500 |
| USD 497 Schwegler Elementary | $500 |
| True Colors | $500 |
| Lawrence Schools Foundation | $500 |
| KSDS Assistance Dogs Inc | $100 |
| KARL | $100 |
| Wesley Foundation | $100 |
| Ranchland Trust | $100 |
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, $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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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
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
- 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
- 1G100 Good Womenone grant, 2018 · $500
- RTRangeland Trustone grant, 2017 · $500
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Manhattan Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 57 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 Kansas 4-H Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KSDS ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Schools Foundation ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 The Bill & Erma Riley Family 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.