· Private foundation
The Mariah Fund Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $281k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Red Dog Children's Museum | $20,000 |
| Dodge City Sports Commission | $16,875 |
| Stauth Memorial Museum | $16,875 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Beef Empire Days | $11,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,250 |
| Kansas Teacher's Hall of Fame | $11,250 |
| Finney County Historical Society | $11,250 |
| Kearny County Economic Development | $11,250 |
| Red Dog Children's Museum | $11,250 |
| Friends of Buffalo Dunes | $11,250 |
| Ford County Historical Society | $11,250 |
| Dodge City Roundup Inc | $11,250 |
| Garden City Arts | $11,250 |
| Meade County Historical Society | $11,250 |
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 (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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
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 +23% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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…
How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 76 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.
- 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 Cimarron Golf Club Inc ↗
- Who funds GARDEN CITY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANITIES KANSAS 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: Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Western Kansas Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Mariah Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mariah Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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