Kansas · Private foundation
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.
- $304k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 40 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 41 | $304k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $341k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $364k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 40 | $321k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $316k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $369k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $378k | 2% |
| FY2018 | 44 | $406k | 5% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Kansas Youth Golf Inc | $281,000 | 7 | 50% |
| Salina Art Center Inc | $135,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $105,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Bethany College | $100,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Salina Community Theatre Association | $95,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Kansas State University Foundation | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Salina Education Foundation | $73,000 | 9 | 6% |
| Sunflower Adult Day Services Inc | $63,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Salina Health Education Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Ashby House Ltd | $58,000 | 9 | 2% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 53 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: 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
How this is measured
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About Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation
- How much does Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation give?
- Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $303,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (15%), Education (14%), Recreation & Sports (13%).
- Who are Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Central Kansas Youth Golf Inc ($281k), Salina Art Center Inc ($135k), Kansas Wesleyan University ($105k).
- Does Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Smoot Charitable Foundation, Earl Bane Foundation, Greater Salina Community Foundation.
- Where is Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation based?
- Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation is based in KS.
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