· Public charity
The Kansas Rural Communities Foundation
Provide a vehicle by which individuals, families, businesses, and organizations can financially support the needs of their communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $801,609 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,114,591 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $312,982 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 $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $52k
- $250k+1 grant · $647k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BOSTON CREATIVE GROUP LLC | $646,869 |
| WABAUNSEE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $51,774 |
| NO STONE UNTURNED | $17,500 |
| FORA - FRIENDS OF RECOVERY ASSOCIATION | $17,500 |
| NEMAHA VALLEY HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,500 |
| HIREPATHS | $9,314 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,950 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,202 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +42%
- KFKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2023 · $24k · revenue +322%
- MAMANHATTAN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $277k
- WAWamego Area Chamber of Commerceone grant, 2020 · $70k
- GGGREATER GEARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $54k
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.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
The foundation enhances the quality of life for the kansas city region through tourism advocacy and workforce development.
To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
Emporia Community Foundation is a collection of separate funds and resources given by caring citizens who have chosen to make their community a better place to work and live, now and in the future. The sole purpose is to make the…
Provide a vehicle by which individuals, families, businesses, and organizations can financially support the needs of their communities. solicit funds and educate potential donors about the advantages of giving for both the donor and their…
Foster and support amateur sports competition
To support members in farming
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Ffa Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Volland Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 70 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 Wabaunsee County Fair Association ↗
- Who funds Nemaha Valley Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RECOVERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NO STONE UNTURNED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CARE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF DICKINSON COUNTY 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 · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Kansas Rural Communities 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.
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