· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $3,496,564 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,605,736 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $109,172 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $563k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC DBA | $781,662 |
| TARC | $553,887 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $538,500 |
| SHAWNEE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT | $389,384 |
| USD 501 - TOPEKA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $276,701 |
| KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE | $95,694 |
| PATTERSON FAMILY CHILD CARE CENTER | $88,002 |
| TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC | $72,644 |
| USD 345 - SEAMAN | $71,456 |
| SPARKWHEEL INC | $68,505 |
| USD 437 - AUBURN WASHBURN | $61,978 |
| SHAWNEE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FNDT | $54,497 |
| MIRROR INC | $50,239 |
| DOORSTEP INC | $40,120 |
| MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC | $39,551 |
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 (FY17–25, $16.4M) 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- ERERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC D/B/A CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS9× · 2017–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +75% · 47% of their budget
- TTThe Topeka Public Schools Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +55% · 91% of their budget
- TITARC INC9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TTTENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +106%
- VGVAN GO INCone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -11%
- LKLAWRENCE KANSAS PRIDE INCone grant, 2023 · $8k
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
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.
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
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
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Douglas County Child Development Assoc Dba Positive Bright Start. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 85 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 ERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC D/B/A CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS ↗
- Who funds The Topeka Public Schools Foundation ↗
- Who funds TARC INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Housing and Credit Counseling Inc ↗
- Who funds DOORSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA ↗
- Who funds SHAWNEE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LETS HELP INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICE AND GUIDANCE CENTER OF TOPEKA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF EASTERN KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds VALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI NATION ↗
- Who funds COUNTRYSIDE UNITED METHODIST PRESCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TDC LEARNING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds JAYHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC COUNCIL 197 ↗
- Who funds LIFEHOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COUNTY SERVICE ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON COUNTY MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE INCORPORATED ↗
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: 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
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 Kaw Valley 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.