· Public charity
United Way of the Flint Hills Inc
To mobilize resources to identify and address human needs within the communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $165k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRANTS TO ORG-CASH | $61,766 |
| THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION | $24,098 |
| SOS | $22,500 |
| EMPORIA COMMUNITY DAYCARE | $20,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $17,000 |
| KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES | $17,000 |
| CAMP ALEXANDER | $12,000 |
| JAYHAWK AREA COUNCIL BSA | $12,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY | $10,500 |
| LITTLE HUSKIES CHILDCARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| BUILDING BLOCKS COMMUNITY CHILD CAR | $10,000 |
| CROSSWINDS COUNSELING | $10,000 |
| KANSAS CHILDREN SERVICE LEAGUE | $9,500 |
| EMPORIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $9,222 |
| HELP HOUSE OF OSAGE COUNTY | $8,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $349k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k 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
- ECEMPORIA COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +56%
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +190%- SISOS Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $211k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- GTGRANTS TO ORGANZIATIONS UNDER 5000one grant, 2023 · $61k
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.
Provides a voice for abused and neglected children who are under the legal protection of the court system
The children's advocacy center of kansas (cacks) is committed to securing appropriate resources for ensuring the healthy establishment and sustainability of kansas child advocacy centers and the kansas chapter. cacks is committed to…
Tri-county casa, inc. volunteers advocate for children in the 13th judicial district in butler, greenwood, and elk counties in kansas.
The mission of casa is to speak for the best interests of abused and neglected children in the courts. casa promotes and supports quality volunteer representation for children in order to provide each child a safe, permanent, nurturing…
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
Protecting children today for stronger families tomorrow.
Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children
Provide usda meals to qualified daycare centers
The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.
To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League and the most unlike its peers is Cradle to Career Literacy Center. 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 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 32 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 EMPORIA COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOS Inc ↗
- Who funds Building Blocks Community Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JAYHAWK AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC COUNCIL 197 ↗
- Who funds CHURCHES OF OSAGE COUNTY UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE FLINT HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALEXANDER OF EMPORIA LYON COUNTY KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Emporia Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ↗
- Who funds PLUMB PLACE INC DBA SOUTHWICK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Housing and Credit Counseling Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLE TO CAREER LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds MID-AMERICA NUTRITION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE EIGHTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds Little Huskies Childcare ↗
- Who funds CORNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOM HOUSE YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
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: 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
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 the Flint Hills 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.