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Topeka Community Foundation
The TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION works to improve the quality of life in the topeka region through an active partnership with donors and others who wish to bring positive change through charitable giving.
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 136 grants below total $6,110,409 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,620,212 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $509,803 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 $10k24 grants · $176k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.6M
- $50k–250k28 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BERT NASH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER | $525,000 |
| MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION | $500,000 |
| WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $304,400 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FREE STATE CAPITOL INC | $300,000 |
| WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC | $225,200 |
| KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER | $202,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $173,200 |
| CITY OF TOPEKA | $154,172 |
| ALLIANCE FOR A HEALTHY KANSAS | $150,000 |
| CAPPER FOUNDATION | $140,422 |
| TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION | $128,726 |
| PROJECT TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOOD DRIVE | $125,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE TOPEKA ZOO | $116,823 |
| GREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION | $110,000 |
| YMCA | $103,500 |
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, $3.2M) 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 +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
187 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 23 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $940k 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
- WUWASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +262%
- TRTOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $942k · revenue +30%
- KCKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $838k · revenue +542%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2017 · $376k · revenue +4%
- AAALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · $332k
- OHOAK HILL SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue -14%
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.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
Reduce the impact an impaired driving crash has on victims, survivors and their families, and increase awareness of the traumatic human consequences of the choice to drive impaired
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Advocates for Better Care Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation. 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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
222 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. 222 of the 313 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 WASHBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MANHATTAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds SENT INC ↗
- Who funds 2030 Foundation of Topeka Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER TOPEKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds CAPPER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BERT NASH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MID AMERICA ASSISTANCE COALITION ↗
- Who funds VALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT TOPEKA FOOD DRIVE ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ADVOCATES FOR BETTER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE TOPEKA ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA CIVIC THEATRE & ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER TOPEKA PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST KANSAS ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRASH MOUNTAIN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSCONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DOORSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HOMES 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: United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Stormont-Vail Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Douglas County Community Foundation · Blanche Bryden Foundation · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Wmr Family Foundation 045351-000 Co Wilmington Trust Company · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Bnsf Railway 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 Topeka Community 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.