· Private foundation
The Mariah Fund Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Red Dog Children's Museum | $20,000 |
| Stauth Memorial Museum | $16,875 |
| Dodge City Sports Commission | $16,875 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Garden City Charity Classic | $11,250 |
| Boot Hill Museum | $11,250 |
| Cimarron Golf Club | $11,250 |
| Finney County Historical Society | $11,250 |
| Kearny County Economic Development | $11,250 |
| Ford County Historical Society | $11,250 |
| Dodge City Convention & Visitors Bureau | $11,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,250 |
| Meade County Historical Society | $11,250 |
| Beef Empire Days | $11,250 |
| Kansas Teacher's Hall of Fame | $11,250 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 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, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- BHBoot Hill Museum Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $572k · revenue +11%
- DCDODGE CITY ROUNDUP INC5× · 2019–2025 · $43k · revenue +42%
- BEBEEF EMPIRE DAYS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +129%
Funded once
- MSMain Street Dodge City Incone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $15k
- HCHodgeman County Eco-Devoone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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.
Holt co history
To restore and preserve historical structures and memorabilia
Historical museum and library. preservation of historical information and materials relating to barton county kansas.
Association to support kansas museums
Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge which will esstablish and illustrate the history of kittson county.
Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas
Preserve items of historical value and provide education for the people residing in lane and surrounding counties of western kansas.
To preserve and maintain the history of nemaha county kanas
The purpose of the society shall be to encourage interest in history and the history of Clay County Kansas The societys major function is to discover collect preserve and display historic records and material which may help to establish or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dodge City Area Arts Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ness County Bank Building 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.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 76 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 Boot Hill Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BUFFALO DUNES INC ↗
- Who funds DODGE CITY ROUNDUP INC ↗
- Who funds BEEF EMPIRE DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Depot Theater Company ↗
- Who funds Scott Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame Inc ↗
- Who funds Meade County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Main Street Dodge City Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FINNEY COUNTY KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Claude and Donalda Stauth Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAKER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Cimarron Golf Club Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES KANSAS 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: Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Western Kansas Community Foundation · 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 Mariah Fund 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.
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