Kansas · Public charity
United Way of the Plains Inc
To improve lives by harnessing the caring power of our community to advance the common good in south central kansas.
- $10.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 82
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 85
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $5.8M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $415,294
- Organizations funded a year
- 55 to 89
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $23M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations United Way of the Plains Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $341k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 82 | $5.8M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 85 | $6.8M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 89 | $7.8M | 38% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $8.1M | 24% |
| FY2020 | 57 | $8.8M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $10M | 4% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $11M | 13% |
| FY2017 | 62 | $11M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center of Hope Inc | $5,831,992 | 8 | 38% |
| Rainbows United Inc | $5,775,597 | 8 | 9% |
| The Pando Initiative Inc | $4,022,049 | 8 | 56% |
| Salvation Army | $3,373,920 | 8 | n/a |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $3,303,843 | 8 | 9% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $3,146,894 | 8 | 7% |
| United Methodist Open Door | $3,032,913 | 8 | 19% |
| Boys & Girls Club of South Central Kansas Inc | $2,964,088 | 8 | 41% |
| Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation of Kansas Inc | $2,946,355 | 8 | 8% |
| The Young Men's Christian Association of Wichita Kansas (2311) | $2,177,236 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 163 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
United Way of the Plains Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 132 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Wichita Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Simply Hygiene Inc · Berry Foundation Inc · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Ima Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Belin Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation
How this is measured
About United Way of the Plains Inc
- How much does United Way of the Plains Inc give?
- United Way of the Plains Inc reported 82 itemized grants totaling $5,849,628, out of $9,955,738 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 55 and 89 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does United Way of the Plains Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Health (19%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are United Way of the Plains Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Center of Hope Inc ($5.8M), Rainbows United Inc ($5.8M), The Pando Initiative Inc ($4.0M).
- Does United Way of the Plains Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United Way of the Plains Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wichita Foundation, Kansas Health Foundation, Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation.
- Where is United Way of the Plains Inc based?
- United Way of the Plains Inc is based in KS.
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