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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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$782k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$15MHealth$9.1MEducation$8.0MHousing & Shelter$1.5MYouth Development$926kFood & Nutrition$618kPhilanthropy$198kCrime & Legal$176kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $3,496,564, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,605,736 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $109,172 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $334k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $563k
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.5M
$28,520
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $244k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $194k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $162k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $154k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $128k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $117k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $112k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $96k → 16%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $94k → 16%POSITIVE BRIGHT START: $25k → 15%POSITIVE BRIGHT START: $23k → 15%LET'S HELP INC: $67k → 14%LET'S HELP: $65k → 14%LET'S HELP INC: $58k → 14%LET'S HELP INC: $58k → 14%LET'S HELP: $45k → 14%LET'S HELP: $36k → 14%LET'S HELP INC: $36k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $539k → 14%TARC: $554k → 14%TARC: $554k → 14%TARC: $553k → 14%TARC: $540k → 14%TARC INC: $536k → 14%TARC: $529k → 14%TARC INC: $528k → 14%TARC INC: $440k → 14%TARC: $94k → 14%FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES INC: $36k → 14%CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS: $846k → 14%CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS: $794k → 14%CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS: $785k → 14%ERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC DBA: $782k → 14%CHILD CARE AWARE: $753k → 14%ERCRESOURCE & REFERRAL INC DBACHILD CARE AWARE: $737k → 14%CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS: $735k → 14%ERCRESOURCE & REFERRAL INC DBACHILD CARE AWARE: $603k → 14%ERCRESOURCE & REFERRAL INC DBACHILD CARE AWARE: $579k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $486k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $428k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $379k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $373k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $370k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $366k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $358k → 14%COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $350k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $40k → 14%MIDLAND CARE CONNECTION: $33k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$36M · 64 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
18

Total granted

$36M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+33%

Still filing today

72%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ER
    ERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC D/B/A CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +75% · 47% of their budget
  • TT
    The Topeka Public Schools Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +55% · 91% of their budget
  • TI
    TARC INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TT
    TENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +106%
  • VG
    VAN GO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -11%
  • LK
    LAWRENCE KANSAS PRIDE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
2
Interfaith Housing and Community Service

To assist low-income homeowners of south central kansas to repair/rehabilitate their homes; to assist qualified low-income residents of south central kansas to purchase homes or to build low-cost homes for these residents; and to provide…

Community Improvement
3
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health
4
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
5
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment
6
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
7
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
8
Dui Victims Center of Kansas Inc

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

Education
9
Atchison Community Health Clinic Inc

Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.

Health
10
Webster City Day Care

Child day care center

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11
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
12
Kansas Action for Children Inc

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

63 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. 63 of the 85 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/63
Grantees still filing
45/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC D/B/A CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS: $6,614,060 · Human ServicesERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC D/B/A CHILD CARE AWARE …TARC INC: $4,326,650 · Human ServicesTARC INCCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $3,649,876 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION INCKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $1,301,072 · Human ServicesKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE+5 more: $538,849 · Human ServicesThe Topeka Public Schools Foundation: $4,577,404 · OtherThe Topeka Public Schools FoundationSHAWNEE COUNTY: $3,157,949 · OtherSHAWNEE COUNTYPATTERSON FAMILY CHILD CARE CENTER: $1,022,989 · OtherPATTERSON FAMILY CHILD CARE CENTERUSD 345 - SEAMAN: $946,264 · OtherUSD 345 - SEAMANYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS: $933,124 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST …USD 437 - AUBURN WASHBURN: $765,204 · OtherHousing and Credit Counseling Inc: $625,846 · Other+51 more: $3,572,180 · Other+51 moreSPARKWHEEL INC: $931,706 · EducationCOMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $50,554 · EducationEarly Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc: $38,112 · Education+2 more: $13,931 · EducationSHAWNEE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $374,702 · HealthFAMILY SERVICE AND GUIDANCE CENTER OF TOPEKA INC: $292,751 · HealthPOSITIVE CONNECTIONS INC: $134,262 · HealthGRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC: $77,866 · Health+1 more: $18,955 · HealthTOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC: $766,091 · Housing & ShelterTHA Inc: $57,928 · Housing & ShelterLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $33,529 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $17,862 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA: $408,792 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI NATION: $221,470 · Youth DevelopmentHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $356,438 · Food & NutritionLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $34,870 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$16,430,507Other$15,600,960Education$1,034,303Health$898,536Housing & Shelter$875,410Youth Development$630,262Food & Nutrition$391,308

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetERC RESOURCE & REFERRAL INC D/B/A CHILD CARE AWARE OF EASTERN KANSAS: $6,614,060 over 9y, 47% of budgetThe Topeka Public Schools Foundation: $4,577,404 over 9y, 91% of budgetTARC INC: $4,326,650 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION INC: $3,649,876 over 9y, 11% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $1,301,072 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS: $933,124 over 9y, 7.0% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $931,706 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetTOPEKA RESCUE MISSION INC: $766,091 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetHousing and Credit Counseling Inc: $625,846 over 7y, 15% of budgetDOORSTEP INC: $438,292 over 9y, 14% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA: $408,792 over 9y, 10% of budgetSHAWNEE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION INC: $374,702 over 9y, 16% of budgetLETS HELP INC: $365,039 over 7y, 14% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $356,438 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NORTHEAST KANSAS INC: $330,989 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE AND GUIDANCE CENTER OF TOPEKA INC: $292,751 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF EASTERN KANSAS INC: $274,445 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetVALEO BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CARE INC: $264,277 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI NATION: $221,470 over 2y, 27% of budgetCOUNTRYSIDE UNITED METHODIST PRESCHOOL INC: $193,943 over 4y, 33% of budgetTDC LEARNING CENTERS: $143,578 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DOUGLAS COUNTY INC: $140,931 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetPOSITIVE CONNECTIONS INC: $134,262 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetMARIAN CLINIC INC: $122,165 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetJAYHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC COUNCIL 197: $117,259 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetLIFEHOUSE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTERINC: $109,279 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetKANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $103,228 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMIRROR INC: $99,861 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC: $97,624 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetELIZABETH BALLARD COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $92,836 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetGRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC: $77,866 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEFFERSON COUNTY SERVICE ORGANIZATION INC: $74,453 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetMIDLAND CARE CONNECTION INC: $72,955 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJACKSON COUNTY MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE INCORPORATED: $65,642 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHA Inc: $57,928 over 3y, 14% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KANSAS INC: $50,764 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $50,554 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFlorence Crittenton Services of Topeka Inc: $48,052 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetDouglas County Child Development Assoc DBA Positive Bright Start: $47,534 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEarly Childhood Collective of Douglas County Inc: $38,112 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $34,870 over 3y, 14% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC: $33,529 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJUST FOOD OF DOUGLAS COUNTY KS INC: $26,427 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES COUNCIL INC: $22,816 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INC: $18,955 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTENANTS TO HOMEOWNERS INC: $17,862 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKANSAS CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY CENTER INC: $14,132 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVAN GO INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Topeka Community FoundationKS76.7× affinity35 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization United Way of Kaw Valley Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Kaw Valley Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    34report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 85 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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