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Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $202k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST TEE OF SALINE CO KS INC | $32,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $30,000 |
| SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| SALINA ART CENTER | $15,000 |
| YMCA | $15,000 |
| KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC | $14,000 |
| SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES | $13,000 |
| SALINE CO DEPT OF SENIOR CITIZENS | $12,000 |
| CORONADO AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS | $10,000 |
| BETHANY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
| KSU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $9,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 17% of Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +55% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- CKCENTRAL KANSAS YOUTH GOLF INC7× · 2017–2023 · $281k · revenue +16% · 50% of their budget
- KWKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +74%
- BCBETHANY COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FTFIRST TEE OF SALINA CO KS INCone grant, 2024 · $48k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INCone grant, 2023 · $12k
- SCSALINA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SENIOR CITIZENSone grant, 2024 · $12k
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.
To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment
Promote and support economic development
Christian education
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To protect and nurture children at risk by developing, supporting, serving, and protecting the interests of children.
Saline area social service provides food, emergency aid, and support to those in need in the saline community. sass aims to build a stronger community of neighbors helping neighbors.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.
Support services for saline memorial hospital.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
Provide aid to those in need through rent and utility assistance. also, assist those experiencing hunger and food insecurity through the distribution of groceries.
Provide temporary shelter to homeless persons in saline county, kansas who do not have the resources or support system to obtain food and shelter on their own.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Health Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St John's Missionary Baptist Church. 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 37 years old; the field is 29. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 84 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 CENTRAL KANSAS YOUTH GOLF INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BETHANY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASHBY HOUSE LTD ↗
- Who funds SALINA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA HELP FOR HOUSING ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES ↗
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: Smoot Charitable Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Salina Regional Health Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · Salina Area United Way Inc · Zimmerman Family 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 Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation 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.
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