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The Greenway 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.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$3.6MReligion$68kEducation$44kArts & Culture$39kYouth Development$9kHuman Services$9kHealth$8kCrime & Legal$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $4k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$865k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$100,000
MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $1k → 8%THE MASTERPIECE LTD: $2k → 17%ADA JENKINS CENTER: $250 → 10%MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER: $4k → 10%THE MASTERPIECE LTD: $2k → 17%MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER: $4k → 10%MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 10%MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER: $3k → 10%MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER: $2k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $800 → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $400 → 13%SALINA FAMILY YMCA: $300 → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
MA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KS
NC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$399k · 19 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
31

Total granted

$399k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+60%

Still filing today

42%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SS
    SALINA SYMPHONY INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $17k · revenue +61%
  • ML
    MARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $16k · revenue +211%
  • SC
    SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +125%

Funded once

  • KA
    KANSAS ATHLETICS INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • KW
    KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • HT
    HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
2
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
3
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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6
Marian University Inc

Marian university is a catholic applied liberal arts community that welcomes diverse spiritual traditions sponsored by the congregation of sisters of st agnes. marian university engages students in the education of the whole person. we…

Education
7
Salina Health Education Foundation

To serve our community at the crossroads of compassionate healthcare and professional education.

Education
8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
9
Arts Midwest Incorporated

Arts Midwest works collaboratively with private and public arts supporters to support, inform, and celebrate arts organizations and creative communities across the Midwest. Our mission is to build unprecedented opportunity across the…

Arts & Culture
10
Simpson University

Simpson university is a christ-centered learning community committed to developing each student in mind, faith, and character for a life-time of meaningful work and service in a constantly changing world.

Education
11
Wallin Education Partners

To ensure college and career success for high-potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable, and vibrant communities. we do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and…

Education
12
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Wesleyan University; the most unlike its peers is Parkinsons Exercise and Wellness Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,999,503 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $612,795 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $251,000 · OtherIndividual…FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $52,800 · OtherFIRST PRES…SALINA SYMPHONY INC: $16,770 · Other+30 more: $71,524 · Other+30 moreMARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesTHE MASTERPIECE LTD: $3,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $2,500 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $1,250 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $6,250 · Arts & CulturePETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $6,116 · Arts & CultureSTIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $3,500 · Arts & CultureKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $1,000 · EducationMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationPARKINSONS EXERCISE AND WELLNESS CENTER: $4,500 · HealthRiverview Estates Inc: $3,000 · HealthSalina Regional Health Center Inc: $300 · HealthHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$3,612,798Other$392,094Human Services$25,000Arts & Culture$15,866Education$13,000Health$7,800Food & Nutrition$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,999,503 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $612,795 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSALINA SYMPHONY INC: $16,770 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMARQUETTE LEARNING CENTER INC: $16,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $6,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $6,116 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKINSONS EXERCISE AND WELLNESS CENTER: $4,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTANZANIA EDUCATION CORPORATION: $3,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO GRAND INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRiverview Estates Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MASTERPIECE LTD: $3,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Salina Kansas: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALINA SHARES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMCPHERSON COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Salina Community Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalina Regional Health Center Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Land Institute: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Greater Salina Commun…Smoot Charitable Foun…Greater Kansas City C…Morrison Foundation T…Earl Bane FoundationMildred and Rolland M…McCune & Middlekauff …Mike Berkley Family F…Verla Nesbitt Joscely…Je and le Mabee Found…William H Graves Fami…Milton I and Frances …
Greater Salina Community FoundationKS27.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Earl Bane Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · William H Graves Family Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Greenway Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Greenway Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Greenway Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Greenway Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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