· 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.
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.
The 82 grants below total $5,849,628 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,955,738 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,106,110 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $700k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $3.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER OF HOPE INC | $415,294 |
| RAINBOWS UNITED INC | $366,697 |
| UNITED METHODIST OPEN DOOR | $285,629 |
| GREATER WICHITA YMCA | $275,441 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC | $260,598 |
| KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE INC | $249,348 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC | $244,527 |
| HUMANKIND MINISTRIES | $197,215 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA | $192,551 |
| WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME | $182,419 |
| THE PANDO INITATIVE INC | $176,450 |
| RISE UP FOR YOUTH INC | $168,350 |
| KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC | $163,848 |
| CEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF KANSAS | $160,282 |
| CENTRAL PLAINS HEALTHCARE PARTNERSHIP | $154,163 |
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, $26.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
108 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k 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
- RURAINBOWS UNITED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +27%
- TPTHE PANDO INITIATIVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +50% · 56% of their budget
- TWTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +99%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY INCone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +7%
- CCCULTURE CREATIONS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · 61% of their budget
- SISTARKEY INCgraduated8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +47%
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.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…
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.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
United way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita and the most unlike its peers is Armaan Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
202 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.
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 Center of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
- Who funds CAIRN HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds RISE UP FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD START INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA ↗
- Who funds STEPSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS SCHOOL FOR EFFECTIVE LEARNING IN ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE ALLIANCE OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AbilityPoint Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS AND WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Consumer Credit Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds DEAR NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds DESTINATION INNOVATION 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: 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
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 Plains 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.
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way Suncoast Inc — 1% of income from government
- Heart of Florida United Way Inc — 0% of income from government
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.