· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of Dickinson County Inc
To connect donors with their charitable giving priorities, serve as a resource for local nonprofit organizations and provide leadership to the community.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DICKINSON COUNTY INC’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.
The 46 grants below total $970,979 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,108,140 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,137,161 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $597k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $254k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YOUTH CORE MINISTRIES | $79,101 |
| ABILENE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $61,440 |
| DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $57,484 |
| HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE | $55,698 |
| THE EISENHOWER FOUNDATION | $49,802 |
| USD 435 | $49,217 |
| ST ANDREW'S ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $40,441 |
| ABILENE & SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD | $34,119 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH | $32,000 |
| USD 393 | $30,828 |
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $28,940 |
| HISTORIC ABILENE INC | $28,623 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $26,067 |
| GREAT PLAINS THEATRE | $24,347 |
| TALMAGE LIBRARY AND EVENT CENTER | $23,845 |
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 (FY18–24, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- TEThe Eisenhower Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $411k · revenue +34%
- DCDICKINSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $326k · revenue +40% · 45% of their budget
- AAABILENE AND SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2024 · $262k · revenue +535%
Funded once
- COCITY OF WOODBINEone grant, 2022 · $58k
- LLLittle Lions Learning Center Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $28k · revenue +31%
- KPKOLLHOFF PHARMACYone grant, 2021 · $19k
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.
Historical museum and library. preservation of historical information and materials relating to barton county kansas.
To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.
To maintain real estate for the economic development of atchison county, kansas. to provide resources and assistance for continued economic development in atchison county, kansas.
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
Establish and preserve the dickinson county historcial museum to inspire people to learn through public programs, publications, educational activities, and special events.
Support qualified charities and development of public projects in independence, kansas.
Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
To preserve and sustain rural culture. to educate kansans about kansas (to create a thoughtful audience for communities) and network & support rural communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quality of Life Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Seelye Mansion Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 32. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 87 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 The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE AND SMOKY VALLEY RAILROAD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR ON CEDAR STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC ABILENE INC ↗
- Who funds FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHURCH WOMEN UNITED ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ABILENE PUBLIC SCHOOL ENDOWMENT ASS ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL OF DICKINSON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CEDAR HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRISH FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds 410 IRISH DEN ↗
- Who funds Little Lions Learning Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL KANSAS FREE FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
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: Jeffcoat Memorial Foundation · Emma Balsiger Foundation Inc · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Brown Memorial Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Kansas Health Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · The Patterson Family Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 Community Foundation of Dickinson County Inc 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.