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Tower Mental Health Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$65k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$483kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kCrime & Legal$60kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$65,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT TEAM MIDWEST$65,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JOHNSON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH: $11k → 5%SOUTH CENTRAL MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING CENTER: $2k → 8%JEFFERSON COUNTY ALLIANCE OF SERVICE COUNCILS INC: $10k → 8%KANZA MENTAL HEALTH AND GUIDANCE CENTER: $2k → 9%PRAIRIE VIEW: $4k → 9%THE GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $2k → 10%ELIZABETH LAYTON CENTER: $2k → 10%COMPASS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $18k → 12%IROQUOIS CENTER FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 13%CENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $35k → 13%SUMNER MENTAL HEALTH: $5k → 13%COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $70k → 14%HIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 14%SOUTHWEST GUIDANCE CENTER: $2k → 14%CENTER FOR COUNSELING & CONSULTATION: $2k → 14%KANZA MENTAL HEALTH: $23k → 14%FOUR COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC: $12k → 15%HEADQUARTERS INC: $30k → 15%KANSAS LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER: $60k → 15%LABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH: $9k → 15%GREENWOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 15%COMCARE OF SEDGEWICK COUNTY: $2k → 16%SOUTHEAST KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $45k → 16%WYANDOTTE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $2k → 16%CROSSWINDS COUNSELING & WELLNESS: $13k → 16%SPRING RIVER MENTAL HEALTH: $10k → 16%CRAWFORD COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH: $8k → 18%PAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH: $15k → 20%JOHNSON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 5%PRAIRIE VIEW INC: $2k → 9%COMPASS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: $2k → 12%CENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $4k → 13%SUMNER MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 13%ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS: $53k → 14%FOUR COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH: $5k → 15%BERT NASH COMMUNITY MHC: $10k → 15%HORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 15%LABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: $2k → 15%SOUTHEAST KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 16%CROSSWINDS COUNSELING & WELLNESS: $2k → 16%SPRING RIVER MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS: $2k → 16%PAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH: $11k → 20%FIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT TEAM MIDWEST: $65k → 5%ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF KANSAS INC: $35k → 14%PAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE INC: $6k → 20%FAMILY SERVICE AND GUIDANCE CENTER: $8k → 14%STAND FOR YOUR SISTER: $3k → 20%TOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

32%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$197k · 10 repeat orgs$422k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
31

Total granted

$197k
$357k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+135%

Still filing today

90%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • SK
    Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center
    2× · 2018–2020 · $47k · revenue +715%
  • CK
    CENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER
    3× · 2018–2020 · $41k · revenue +146%
  • CB
    Compass Behavioral Health
    2× · 2017–2020 · $19k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • CB
    COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $70k · revenue ×64
  • KL
    KANSAS LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $60k
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS
    one grant, 2017 · $53k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Center for Mental Health

The center for mental health partners with people and communities to produce exceptional mental health and substance abuse services.

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2
Jefferson Community Counseling Cent Dba Discovery Behavioral Healthcare

Discovery behavioral healthcare is a community based health treatment center dedicated to providing state of the art services to foster recovery and resilience in an accessible, respective and caring environment.

Youth Development
3
Southern Iowa Mental Health Center

Mental health care to those in need

Health
4
Centennial Mental Health Center Inc

Our mission is to achieve excellence in the provision of behavioral health services that lead to optimal health and well being.

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5
High Plains Mental Health Center Endowment Association Inc

Ensure the availability of quality mental health services to consumers of high plains mental health center

Education
6
South Central Montana Regional Mental Health Center

The region iii mental health center is a registered non-profit 501(c)(3) corporation dedicated to the establishment, development and maintenance of high quality mental health and chemical dependency care in south central montana.

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7
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
8
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center

Make mental health healthier through treatment, training, education, and information.

Health
9
Southwest Colorado Mental Health Center Inc

To make a meaningful difference through healthcare innovation and caring for the whole person.

Health
10
Plains Area Mental Health Center I

To provide mental health services to the public

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11
North Central Mental Health Services Inc

To provide mental health and drug addiction services.

Health
12
North Central Missouri Mental Health Center

Nc mo mental health center delivers high quality trauma-informed behavioral health services in a caring and compassionate atmosphere that promotes dignity, builds on natural supports, encourages consumer choice, embraces cultural…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas and the most unlike its peers is First Responders Support Team Midwest 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Youth & Disciples…Community Foundations and G…Community Mental Health Cen…Kansas Policy Advocacy Orga…Kansas Child & Family Advoc…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr12%8%5–10yr17%4%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr16%46%35–55yr21%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%33%5–10yr17%1%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr16%41%35–55yr21%9%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
10%
763/7,961

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
24/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC — $70,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INCFIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT TEAM MIDWEST INC — $65,000 · HealthFIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT TEAM MIDWEST INCSoutheast Kansas Mental Health Center — $46,500 · HealthSoutheast Kansas Mental Health CenterASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF KANSAS INC — $35,000 · HealthASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF KANSAS…Compass Behavioral Health — $19,250 · HealthCompass Behavioral HealthFOUR COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $17,593 · HealthFOUR COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INCMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS — $14,123 · HealthLABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,700 · Health+14 more — $35,323 · Health+14 moreKANSAS LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTER — $60,000 · OtherKANSAS LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING CENTERASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS — $53,175 · OtherASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERSCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER — $40,500 · OtherCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTERHEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC — $30,000 · OtherHEADQUARTERS KANSAS INCPAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH — $26,054 · OtherPAWNEE MENTAL HEALTHKANZA MENTAL HEALTH — $22,750 · OtherKANZA MENTAL HEALTHJOHNSON COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH — $11,254 · Other+13 more — $61,140 · Other+13 moreTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Health$313,489Other$304,873Philanthropy$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT TEAM MIDWEST INC — $65,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetSoutheast Kansas Mental Health Center — $46,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCENTRAL KANSAS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER — $40,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS OF KANSAS INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetHEADQUARTERS KANSAS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetCompass Behavioral Health — $19,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR COUNTY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $17,593 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS — $14,123 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLABETTE CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTOPEKA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AND GUIDANCE CENTER OF TOPEKA INC — $9,927 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAWNEE MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrairie View Inc — $5,106 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREENWOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $3,790 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetKANZA MENTAL HEALTH AND GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COUNSELING & CONSULTATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRING RIVER MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDANCE CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH CENTRAL MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIroquois Center for Human Development Inc — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BERT NASH COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIZABETH LAYTON CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH PLAINS MENTAL HEALTH CENTER — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Association of Commun…Blue Cross and Blue S…Sunflower Foundation …Kansas Health Foundat…Greater Salina Commun…The Sunderland Founda…Commerce Bancshares F…Enterprise Holdings F…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas IncKS41.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Association of Community Mental Health Centers of Kansas Inc · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Kansas Health Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Tower Mental Health 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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