Kansas · Public charity
United Way of Kaw Valley Inc
Mission: creating and cultivating an unbreakable network of support vision: healthy and resilient communities where all can thrive.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $3.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $28,520
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $781,662
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 54
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.9M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations United Way of Kaw Valley Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 36 | $3.5M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 41 | $3.7M | 5% |
| FY2023 | 53 | $4.2M | 30% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $3.6M | 3% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $4.1M | 5% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $4.4M | 8% |
| FY2019 | 54 | $4.5M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $3.9M | 20% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Erc Resource & Referral Inc D/B/A Child Care Aware of Eastern Kansas | $6,614,060 | 9 | 47% |
| The Topeka Public Schools Foundation | $4,577,404 | 9 | 91% |
| Tarc Inc | $4,326,650 | 9 | 4% |
| Community Action Inc | $3,649,876 | 9 | 11% |
| Shawnee County | $3,157,949 | 9 | n/a |
| Kansas Childrens Service League | $1,301,072 | 9 | 1% |
| Patterson Family Child Care Center | $1,022,989 | 9 | n/a |
| Usd 345 - Seaman | $946,264 | 7 | n/a |
| Young Women's Christian Association of Northeast Kansas | $933,124 | 9 | 7% |
| Sparkwheel Inc | $931,706 | 9 | 3% |
Show all 84 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($5k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of Kaw Valley Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Topeka Community Foundation · Stormont-Vail Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · United Way of Douglas County Inc · Blanche Bryden Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Wmr Family Foundation 045351-000 Co Wilmington Trust Company · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · Global Impact · Wichita Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of Kaw Valley Inc
- How much does United Way of Kaw Valley Inc give?
- United Way of Kaw Valley Inc reported 36 itemized grants totaling $3,496,564, out of $3,605,736 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 54 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United Way of Kaw Valley Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (42%), Health (25%), Education (22%).
- Who are United Way of Kaw Valley Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Erc Resource & Referral Inc D/B/A Child Care Aware of Eastern Kansas ($6.6M), The Topeka Public Schools Foundation ($4.6M), Tarc Inc ($4.3M).
- Does United Way of Kaw Valley Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of Kaw Valley Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Topeka Community Foundation, Stormont-Vail Foundation, Douglas County Community Foundation.
- Where is United Way of Kaw Valley Inc based?
- United Way of Kaw Valley Inc is based in KS.
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