· Private foundation
The Pete Henry Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $236k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER NW KS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $101,173 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $71,300 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $63,350 |
| COLBY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $34,950 |
| BREWSTER USD 314 | $28,000 |
| CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| FORT HAYS NORTHWEST TECH | $21,250 |
| NORTH CENTRAL KS TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $21,000 |
| WASHBURN UNIVERSITY | $10,200 |
| MAIN STREET ARTS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| WESTERN KANSAS CHILD ADVOCACY CENTE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-KEARNEY | $9,000 |
| KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| THOMAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| FORT WALLACE MUSEUM | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +9% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 14 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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
- MSMAIN STREET ART COUNCIL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +7%
- BCBenedictine College4× · 2021–2024 · $18k · revenue +54%
- TCTabor College5× · 2021–2025 · $17k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- BSBREWSTER SCHOOL - USD 314one grant, 2023 · $20k
- CRCOLBY ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2023 · $10k
- GCGRAINFIELD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +11%
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.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Founded by the norwegian evangelical lutheran church in 1861, luther college is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution. luther welcomes students of all backgrounds to engage in a way of learning that moves beyond immediate…
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
Midamerica nazarene university (mnu) is a transformative university that nurtures christlike community, pursues academic excellence, and cultivates a passion to serve. (continued on schedule o)mnu is a comprehensive liberal arts university…
Cornell college offers an innovative and rigorous learning community where faculty and staff collaborate with students to develop the intellectual curiosity, creativity and moral courage necessary for a lifetime of learning and engaged…
Wisconsin lutheran college is a private, four-year liberal arts college.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concordia University and the most unlike its peers is Grainfield Community Development Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 68 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 114 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 GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET ART COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds Tabor College ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Creighton University ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRAINFIELD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CHRISTIAN COLLEGE 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: Kansas Independent College Association · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Jellison Benevolent Society Inc · Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · David and Mary P Rush Educational Trust Co Donald Hoffman Trustee · Earl Bane Foundation · Dane G Hansen 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 Pete Henry 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.
- Seton Hall University — 0% of income from government
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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