· Public charity
The United Way of El Dorado Kansas Inc
United way of el dorado works to advance the common good by creating opportunities for a better life for all by improving the aspects of health, education and income stability.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $413,015 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $475,406 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,391 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $336k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EL DORADO SCHOOL | $36,277 |
| PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF BUTLER COUNTY | $30,000 |
| SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $29,000 |
| BUTLER COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE | $27,094 |
| TRI-COUNTY CASA | $19,816 |
| EUREKA VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $18,000 |
| RISE EL DORADO | $15,200 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $13,500 |
| RAINBOWS UNITED | $13,500 |
| BUTLER COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT 9 | $13,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,778 |
| SPARKWHEEL INC | $12,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- SCSUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $382k · revenue +140%
- TCTRI-COUNTY CASA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $193k · revenue +21%
- RERISE - EL DORADO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- EDEL DORADO HIGH SCHOOL BANDone grant, 2022 · $30k
- KOKANSAS OIL MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +227%
- EDEL DORADO HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Center for Independent Living Inc and the most unlike its peers is United Steelworkers International 00241. 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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 59 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 SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-COUNTY CASA INC ↗
- Who funds RISE - EL DORADO INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF BUTLER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID-KANSAS COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FISHING HAS NO BOUNDARIES INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA Foundation of Wichita Inc (2311-SO) ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
- Who funds KANSAS OIL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds United Steelworkers International 00241 ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds EL DORADO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
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: United Way of the Plains Inc · Central Kansas Community Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Edward Jones Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Servant Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 United Way of El Dorado Kansas 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.