· Private foundation
The Trusler Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $152k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLUMB PLACE | $50,000 |
| OLPE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT | $50,000 |
| EMPOIRA MAIN STREET | $50,000 |
| STRONG CITY PRESERVATION ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| EMPORIA SENIOR CENTER | $31,585 |
| CHASE COUNTY OLD SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT | $22,908 |
| USD 252 | $17,500 |
| SYMPHONY IN THE FLINT HILLS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ECKAN | $10,000 |
| CROSSWINDS COUNSELING & WELLNESS | $10,000 |
| EMPORIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,618 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE FLINT HILLS INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 61% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Trusler Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k 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
- NYNLC YOUTH ASSOCIATION3× · 2017–2023 · $93k · revenue +47% · 25% of their budget
- EAEMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $92k · revenue +68% · 30% of their budget
- HDHETLINGER DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES I3× · 2020–2024 · $84k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- NRNEWMAN REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k
- EAEMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAUone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +24%
- OLOLPE LIONS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
To combat economic and physical deterioration of Plains KS through charitable social welfare activities and economic development projects that encourage job development and population stability.
Provide low income, multi family housing under sec. 8 of the national housing act.
To create a positive environment for business success in the junction city ks area.
To encourage and support economic development in lincoln county, kansas.
Promote the Pittsburg, Kansas business community.
Provide affordable housing to low-income families
The center provides day care to community children between the ages of two weeks to 6 years from 6:30 am to 6:00 pm monday through friday.
To maintain real estate for the economic development of atchison county, kansas. to provide resources and assistance for continued economic development in atchison county, kansas.
Preserve historic buildings
Preservation of historical records and artifacts of morton county, kansas
Designed to provide high quality value-added consulting services, administrative support, and low-cost flexible facilities for start-up and growth-oriented companies that will result in positive business activity and job creation in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emporia Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Verdigris Valley Community 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 39 years old; the field is 34. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 52 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 Emporia Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL EMPORIA AREA ↗
- Who funds NLC YOUTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HETLINGER DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds CAMP WOOD YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds DRINKWATER & SCHRIVER MILL INC ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds The Pioneer Bluffs Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE FLINT HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds Olpe Community Improvement Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds PLUMB PLACE INC DBA SOUTHWICK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Emporia Senior Center Inc ↗
- Who funds VERDIGRIS VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COFFEY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LYON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALEXANDER OF EMPORIA LYON COUNTY KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING 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: Emporia Community Foundation · Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust · E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation · Jane & Bernard Reeble Foundation · Emil Babinger Charitable Trust · Loretto a Langley Trust · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · The Sunderland Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Turnbull Foundation Trust · United Way of the Flint Hills Inc · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
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 Trusler Foundation 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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