· Public charity
United Way of Ellis County Inc
To raise money to be redistributed to local non-profit agencies.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES OF NWK | $63,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $40,000 |
| FIRST CALL FOR HELP OF ELLIS | $36,320 |
| CANCER COUNCIL OF ELLIS CO | $28,800 |
| CASA OF THE HIGH PLAINS | $20,000 |
| WESTERN KS ASSOC ON CONCERNS | $18,000 |
| OPTIONS DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIL | $15,000 |
| WESTERN KS CHILD ADVOCACY CEN | $12,000 |
| HAYS SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| STEM HARVEST | $7,500 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF KS | $7,000 |
| CENTER FOR LIFE EXPERIENCE I | $7,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,250 |
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, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- COCASA OF THE HIGH PLAINS8× · 2017–2024 · $153k · revenue +5% · 32% of their budget
- ODOPTIONS DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +78%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC7× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- KWKVC WHEATLAND HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $10k
- AOARC OF THE CENTRAL PLAINSone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Child development
To provide residential and rehabilitation care for men and women having difficulties with alcohol and drug dependence.
Provide care for terminally ill patients
To provide support and services to those affected by a current pregnancy, problems from past pregnancy choices and those pressured to be sexually active.
Pregnancy counseling and training
Religious teaching
Offer nutritional, health, social, recreational, and educational programs that promote lifelong independence.
Maintain and support the cassville senior center
Activities for area senior citizens
Provide counseling
Provide low cost nutritional meals for senior citizens
Operation of a senior citizen center
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stem Harvest Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 20 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 HAYS AREA CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE HIGH PLAINS ↗
- Who funds OPTIONS DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HAYS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEM HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LIFE EXPERIENCE 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: Robert E and Patricia Schmidt Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · 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 United Way of Ellis County 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.