· Public charity
United Way of Ellis County Inc
To raise money to be redistributed to local non-profit agencies.
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.
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 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
Religious teaching
Pregnancy counseling and training
Offer nutritional, health, social, recreational, and educational programs that promote lifelong independence.
Maintain and support the cassville senior center
Support services for local seniors
Provide counseling
Provide low cost nutritional meals for senior citizens
Operation of a senior citizen center
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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.
- 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization United Way of Ellis County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Ellis County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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