· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $164k
- $250k+1 grant · $706k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BOSTON CREATIVE GROUP LLC | $706,048 |
| HIREPATHS | $89,440 |
| CITY OF WATERVILLE | $74,915 |
| Individual grant recipient | $48,951 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,324 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,898 |
| WABAUNSEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $24,980 |
| WABUNSEE COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION | $20,776 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,003 |
| DE SOTO ARTS COUNCIL | $14,571 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +42%
- KFKANSAS FFA FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2023 · $24k · revenue +322%
- DMDOWNTOWN MANHATTAN INC2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $277k
- WAWamego Area Chamber of Commerceone grant, 2020 · $70k
- GGGREATER GEARY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $54k
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.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
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…
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
The foundation enhances the quality of life for the kansas city region through tourism advocacy and workforce development.
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
The Foundation's mission is to enhance the life, culture and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Cultural center and community gathering place for the purpose of collecting, preserving, and exhibiting art. the museum enhances cultural life in kansas by providing access to the arts through exhibits and education.
To support members in farming
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 74 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.
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- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WABAUNSEE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- 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 ↗
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 · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Kansas Rural Communities Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Kansas Rural Communities Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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