How much did THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

hungerinsecuritynutritious foodnutrition

2021

fosterstudentsfort hayslivesyoung mensmitheducation

2022

equipment

2023

smithpratteducation

2024

wrestlingmatspratt

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $6k
$10k–50k10 grants · $173k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$12M

Total assets

Largest grants

SMITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$60,000
CITY OF PRATT$27,800
USD 237 SMITH CENTER$24,359
PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE$23,407
THE ROY & ELSIE BLYTHE FOUNDATION$23,287
CENTER TOWNSHIP$20,000
LEBANON FIRE DEPARTMENT$11,562
CITY OF SMITH CENTER$11,285
CORNELL BOTANIC GARDENS$10,533
PRATT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$10,400
MEDICINE LODGE WRESTLING CLUB$10,000
CITY OF KENSINGTON$5,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$331k · 8 repeat orgs$386k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$331k

$330k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%

+75%

Still filing today

25%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsReligionRecreation & SportsOther

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

SC
SMITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
3× · 2021–2024 · $76k
U2
USD 237 SMITH CENTER
4× · 2021–2024 · $59k
CO
CITY OF PRATT
2× · 2023–2024 · $38k

Funded once

PC
PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +61%
FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +105%
SO
SUNPORCH OF SMITH COUNTYgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +1239%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Christian Food Bank of Hopkins County

Provide food for the needy

Food & Nutrition

Mcpherson County Food Bank Inc

To prvide food for needy people in mcpherson county kansas

Food & Nutrition

The Pastors Pantry

The pastor's pantry (targeting senior hunger)(the organization) was established to promote and maintain a food pantry for senior adults who are financially unable to obtain adequate food, and to provide food on an emergency basis to…

Health

The Hope Center of Pratt Ks

Provide emergency assistance including medications, utilities, rent, lodging, and transportation to needy people of the pratt ks area.

Human Services

Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…

Food & Nutrition

Ozark Food Pantry

Our mission is to reach out to those in need in our area by providing healthy and nutritious food and other necessities to families and individuals who cannot afford them. in addition, the pantry refers families to other agencies which can…

Food & Nutrition

Harvest Hope Food Bank

Harvest hope is south carolina's largest food bank, providing over 25 million meals on average to neighbors in need across the midlands, pee dee and upstate.

Food & Nutrition

Project Hope Food Bank Inc

Providing affordable and healthy food to food pantries and feeding programs that serve those at risk of hunger in west central arkansas.

Food & Nutrition

South Texas Food Bank

To alleviate hunger in the imediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…

Community Improvement

South Plains Food Bank Inc

The South Plains Food Bank, Inc. is a humanitarian resource responsible for securing, growing, processing, and distributing food to charitable organizations and persons in need. South Plains Food Bank, Inc. also strives to provide…

Food & Nutrition

God's Pantry Food Bank Inc

The mission of god's pantry food bank is reducing hunger by working together to feed kentucky communities. god's pantry food bank envisions a nourished life for every kentuckian.

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Ozarks Food Harvest Inc

Ozarks food harvest warehouses and distributes food products to 352 active member agencies in 28 counties.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Hays State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Twilight Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/15

Grantees still filing

11/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$402,109Education$170,000Human Services$48,750Recreation & Sports$36,632Arts & Culture$31,584Animals$15,000Religion$12,500

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.

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.

Greater Salina Community FoundationKS15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 organisation THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PRATT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 480905672 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PRATT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 13% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to The Peoples Heartland Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Peoples Heartland Foundation?

More from the funding graph

THE PEOPLES HEARTLAND FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Peoples Heartland Foundation?

More from the funding graph