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.

United Way of the Flint Hills Inc

United Way of the Flint Hills Inc at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

United Way of the Flint Hills Inc

To mobilize resources to identify and address human needs within the communities.

$276k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$62k

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 2024.

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

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k6 grants · $49k
$10k–50k11 grants · $165k
$50k–250k1 grant · $62k

$10,500

Median grant

States reached

$601k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GRANTS TO ORG-CASH	$61,766
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION	$24,098
SOS	$22,500
EMPORIA COMMUNITY DAYCARE	$20,000
KANSAS LEGAL SERVICES	$17,000
SALVATION ARMY	$17,000
CAMP ALEXANDER	$12,000
JAYHAWK AREA COUNCIL BSA	$12,000
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY	$10,500
BUILDING BLOCKS COMMUNITY CHILD CAR	$10,000
CROSSWINDS COUNSELING	$10,000
LITTLE HUSKIES CHILDCARE CENTER	$10,000
KANSAS CHILDREN SERVICE LEAGUE	$9,500
EMPORIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$9,222
HELP HOUSE OF OSAGE COUNTY	$8,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 26 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$61k

Still filing today

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

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EMPORIA COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $262k · revenue +56%
THE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $252k · revenue +190%
SI
SOS Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $211k · revenue +18%

Funded once

GT
GRANTS TO ORGANZIATIONS UNDER 5000
one grant, 2023 · $61k

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.

Central Kansas Court Appointed Special Advocates

Provides a voice for abused and neglected children who are under the legal protection of the court system

Civil Rights

Tri-County Casa Inc

Tri-county casa, inc. volunteers advocate for children in the 13th judicial district in butler, greenwood, and elk counties in kansas.

Civil Rights

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

First Judicial District Casa Association

Protecting children today for stronger families tomorrow.

Civil Rights

Casa of Southwest Oklahoma Inc

Court Advocate for Abused and Neglected Children

Crime & Legal

Quality Care Services Inc

Provide usda meals to qualified daycare centers

Food & Nutrition

Sunlight Children's Services Inc

To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.

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Housing Services of Kansas City Inc

The Housing Services of Kansas City, Inc is focused on creating and preserving affordable housing for low income kansas city residents.

Housing & Shelter

Kansas Children's Foundation

The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.

Health

Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture

Foster Kids Kc

The organization will provide benevolent support to children in need.

Human Services

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 Kansas Childrens Service League; 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.

04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 32 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

22/25

Grantees still filing

15/25

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,893,339Human Services$349,210Youth Development$84,775Philanthropy$66,239Health$63,754Housing & Shelter$46,538Education$38,200

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

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home