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The Peoples Heartland Foundation

To establish and operate a charitable and educational organization for use by people to carry out their charitable and educational desires

$525k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$185k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$252kRecreation & Sports$148kArts & Culture$71kHuman Services$43kPublic Benefit$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$26kYouth Development$25kReligion$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $389,933, the rows itemized in this filing. The $524,998 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,065 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $286k
$12,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$185,490
SMITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$50,500
OSBORNE COUNTY FAIR BOARD$50,000
THE ROY & ELSIE BLYTHE FOUNDATION$25,485
PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE$22,979
KIOWA COUNTY WRESTLING CLUB$12,000
SMFB FOUNDATION$10,000
PRATT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$9,014
CORNELL BOTANIC GARDENS$8,900
USD 237 SMITH CENTER$8,565
VERNON FILLEY ART MUSEUM$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE HOPE CENTER: $11k → 18%FREEDOM GATES BOYS RANCH: $6k → 12%BREAD OF LIFE: $6k → 16%THE HOPE CENTER: $5k → 18%SUNPORCH OF SMITH COUNTY: $20k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$662k · 10 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
20

Total granted

$662k
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+9%

Still filing today

30%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsAnimalsReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TR
    THE ROY AND ELSIE BLYTHE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $62k · revenue +9%
  • PR
    PRATT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $19k · revenue +19%
  • TH
    The Hope Center Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • PC
    PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +137%
  • CT
    CENTER TOWNSHIP
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • SO
    SUNPORCH OF SMITH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +34%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
3
Pratt County Foodbank Inc

County food bank to assist with food needs of limited income families

Food & Nutrition
4
South Central Community Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
5
Christian Center of Park City

The christian center of park city (ccpc) is a christian, humanitarian community resource center that helps improve the lives of people and communities through meeting immediate and basic needs, serving as a leading networker of community…

Religion
6
Presbyterian Manors Inc

To provide quality active senior living and health care within a christian-based community through a continuum of service founded upon the values of respect, dignity, and independence.

Human Services
7
Pleasant Grove Food Pantry Inc

Pleasant Grove Food Pantry provides nutritious food to qualified residents of Pleasant Grove in southeast Dallas who are food insecure. Fighting food insecurity is the mission and intent of the organization. Services are provided by…

Food & Nutrition
8
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
9
The Pastors Pantry Targeting Senior Hunger

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
10
Food Bank of the State College Area Inc

To provide food security, directly and indirectly, to people in centre county.

Human Services
11
Ozark Food Pantry

Our Mission is to reach out to those in need in our area by providing healthy and nuritious 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
12
Presbyterian Village Inc

Our mission is to provide comprehensive continuing care for older adults that promotes health, security, spiritual well-being and happiness in a living environment that fosters personal dignity and independence with the help of qualified,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pratt Regional Medical Center Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Smfb Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $223,290 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSMITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $126,750 · OtherSMITH COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONUSD 237 SMITH CENTER: $67,465 · OtherUSD 237 SMITH CENTERPRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $56,596 · OtherPRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGEOSBORNE COUNTY FAIR BOARD: $50,000 · OtherOSBORNE COUNTY FAIR BOARDIndividual grant recipient: $37,383 · OtherCITY OF SMITH CENTER: $33,725 · Other+15 more: $164,434 · Other+15 morePRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 · EducationPRATT COMMUNITY C…FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationFORT HAYS STATE U…THE ROY AND ELSIE BLYTHE FOUNDATION: $62,117 · Recreation & SportsSUNPORCH OF SMITH CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Hope Center Inc: $16,250 · Human ServicesFREEDOM GATES BOYS RANCH INC: $6,250 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $6,250 · Human ServicesPRATT COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTwilight Theatre Inc: $6,250 · Arts & CultureSMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP: $5,334 · Arts & CulturePRATT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $19,414 · HealthPRATT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,000 · Animals
Other$759,643Education$170,000Recreation & Sports$62,117Human Services$48,750Arts & Culture$31,584Health$19,414Animals$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE ROY AND ELSIE BLYTHE FOUNDATION: $62,117 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSUNPORCH OF SMITH CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRATT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $19,414 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $16,250 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPRATT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetYOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSMFB FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwilight Theatre Inc: $6,250 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFREEDOM GATES BOYS RANCH INC: $6,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $6,250 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP: $5,334 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 PRATT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ROY AND ELSIE BLYTHE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUNPORCH OF SMITH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRATT COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRATT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds The Hope Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds PRATT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds SMFB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Twilight Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM GATES BOYS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD OF LIFE DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP ↗

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.

Greater Salina Community FoundationKS17.4× affinity6 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Peoples Heartland Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peoples Heartland Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Peoples Heartland Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Peoples Heartland Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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