· Community foundation
Thomas County Community Foundation Inc
To endow funds to improve the quality of life for all citizens of thomas county.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF COLBY | $245,210 |
| GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,795 |
| COLBYTHOMAS COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC | $11,165 |
| PIONEER MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $10,750 |
| GENESIS THOMAS COUNTY INC | $8,750 |
| USD 315 COLBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $8,048 |
| USD 316 GOLDEN PLAINS SCHOOLS | $5,900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1071% since the first grant, against +130% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $271k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- U3USD 315 COLBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS4× · 2021–2024 · $66k
- IGIndividual grant recipient6× · 2017–2022 · $51k
- PMPIONEER MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue ×12
Funded once
- TTTHE TALENT INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $206k
- TCTHOMAS COUNTY FAIR BOARDone grant, 2019 · $25k
- CRCOLBY ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Thomas County Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas County Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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