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United Way of the Flint Hills Inc

To mobilize resources to identify and address human needs within the communities. This is accomplished through annual campaigns in lyon, chase, osage, coffey, morris, greenwood, and wabaunsee counties in kansas to raise support for allocation to programs which meet those needs

$276k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
7%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$61,766
Organizations funded a year
15 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$601k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations United Way of the Flint Hills Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23
HealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving17$276k24%
FY202315$258k7%
FY202119$294k0%
FY202022$385k0%
FY201924$405k13%
FY201822$412k5%
FY201722$446kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.2MYouth Development$276kArts & Culture$252kPhilanthropy$189kCrime & Legal$155kHealth$154kHousing & Shelter$91kRecreation & Sports$78kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees
All grantees of United Way of the Flint Hills Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Emporia Community Day Care Center$262,22286%
The Dollywood Foundation$251,92180%
Salvation Army$236,2758n/a
SOS Inc$210,67582%
Building Blocks Community Child Care Inc$158,861815%
Kansas Legal Services Inc$142,90080%
Jayhawk Area Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc Council 197$102,79582%
Churches of Osage County United Inc$94,574823%
United Cerebral Palsy of Kansas Inc$90,40087%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Flint Hills Inc$88,100538%
Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland Inc$84,77580%
Kansas Childrens Service League$79,27580%
Camp Alexander of Emporia Lyon County Kansas Inc$78,225810%
Morris County Care and Share Inc$74,6506n/a
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas$56,25460%
Coffey Co Resource Council$51,7434n/a
Plumb Place Inc Dba Southwick House$46,538217%
Housing and Credit Counseling Inc$43,99861%
Sacred Heart Catholic Church$39,2005n/a
Cradle to Career Literacy Center$28,54263%
United States Catholic Conference$24,0003n/a
Sparkwheel Inc$20,00030%
American Red Cross Kansas Capital Area Chapter$18,5003n/a
The Kansas University Endowment Association$18,20040%
Mid-America Nutrition Program Inc$14,18221%
Casa of the Eighth Judicial District Inc$12,00025%
Little Huskies Childcare$10,00012%
Corner House Inc$7,50021%
Bloom House Youth Services Inc$6,50013%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($123k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

United Way of the Flint Hills Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmporia Community Day Care Center: $262,222 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetThe Dollywood Foundation: $251,921 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOS Inc: $210,675 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBuilding Blocks Community Child Care Inc: $158,861 over 8y, 15% of budgetKansas Legal Services Inc: $142,900 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJayhawk Area Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc Council 197: $102,795 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetChurches of Osage County United Inc: $94,574 over 8y, 23% of budgetUnited Cerebral Palsy of Kansas Inc: $90,400 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Flint Hills Inc: $88,100 over 5y, 38% of budgetGirl Scouts of Kansas Heartland Inc: $84,775 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKansas Childrens Service League: $79,275 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCamp Alexander of Emporia Lyon County Kansas Inc: $78,225 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetMental Health Center of East Central Kansas: $56,254 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPlumb Place Inc Dba Southwick House: $46,538 over 2y, 17% of budgetHousing and Credit Counseling Inc: $43,998 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCradle to Career Literacy Center: $28,542 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetSparkwheel Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $18,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMid-America Nutrition Program Inc: $14,182 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCasa of the Eighth Judicial District Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetLittle Huskies Childcare: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCorner House Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBloom House Youth Services Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Emporia Community FoundationKS26.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Emporia Community Foundation · Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · The Patterson Family Foundation · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Loretto a Langley Trust · The Trusler Foundation Inc · E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation · United Way of Reno County · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Ima Foundation · Bnsf Railway 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.

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About United Way of the Flint Hills Inc

How much does United Way of the Flint Hills Inc give?
United Way of the Flint Hills Inc reported 18 grants totaling $276,086 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does United Way of the Flint Hills Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (47%), Youth Development (11%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are United Way of the Flint Hills Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Emporia Community Day Care Center ($262k), The Dollywood Foundation ($252k), Salvation Army ($236k).
Does United Way of the Flint Hills Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Flint Hills Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Emporia Community Foundation, Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust, Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust.
Where is United Way of the Flint Hills Inc based?
United Way of the Flint Hills Inc is based in KS.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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