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Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation at a glance

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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.

$304k
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$32k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$483kEducation$470kRecreation & Sports$426kReligion$303kPublic Safety & Disaster$291kArts & Culture$262kYouth Development$232kHealth$183kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $202k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST TEE OF SALINE CO KS INC$32,000
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$30,000
SALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$16,000
KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$15,000
YMCA$15,000
SALINA ART CENTER$15,000
EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC$14,000
SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES$13,000
SALINE CO DEPT OF SENIOR CITIZENS$12,000
KSU FOUNDATION$10,000
BETHANY COLLEGE$10,000
CORONADO AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$9,000
Individual grant recipient$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOC OF CENTRAL: $8k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOC OF CENTRAL: $8k → 13%MARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $8k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOC OF CENTRAL: $8k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOC OF CENTRAL: $8k → 13%DVACK: $7k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS: $7k → 13%HOSPICE OF SALINA INC: $5k → 13%HOSPICE OF SALINA INC: $5k → 13%HOSPICE OF SALINA INC: $5k → 13%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOC OF CENTRAL: $4k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 13%SALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION: $2k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 83%.

Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$3.1M · 65 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
10

Total granted

$3.1M
$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
0%

Still filing today

37%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • CK
    CENTRAL KANSAS YOUTH GOLF INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $281k · revenue +16% · 50% of their budget
  • KW
    KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +74%
  • BC
    BETHANY COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • FT
    FIRST TEE OF SALINA CO KS INC
    one grant, 2024 · $48k
  • SC
    SALINA COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SENIOR CITIZENS
    one grant, 2024 · $12k
  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
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.

1
Salina Regional Health Center Inc

To provide quality health care services in a healing and spiritual environment

Health
2
Salina Community Economic Development Organization Inc

Promote and support economic development

Community Improvement
3
Salina Christian Academy Inc

Christian education

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4
South Central Community Foundation

To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
5
Sunlight Children's Services Inc

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

—
6
Saline Area Social Service Inc

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.

—
7
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
8
Salina Area Chamber of Commerceinc

To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.

Community Improvement
9
Saline County Medical Foundation

Support services for saline memorial hospital.

Unclassified
10
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
11
Salina Emergency Aidfood Bank Inc

Provide aid to those in need through rent and utility assistance. also, assist those experiencing hunger and food insecurity through the distribution of groceries.

—
12
Salina Grace Foundation

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Health Education Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 84 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
19/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $294,000 · OtherFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHEMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC: $254,000 · OtherEMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INCSALVATION ARMY: $112,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYYMCA SUSTAINING FUND: $105,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $81,000 · OtherSALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $73,000 · OtherSALINA CHRISTMAS FUND: $70,000 · Other+58 more: $1,070,500 · Other+58 moreKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · EducationKANSAS WESLEY…BETHANY COLLEGE: $100,000 · EducationBETHANY COLLE…KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE …SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationSALINA HEALTH…SPARKWHEEL INC: $14,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationCENTRAL KANSAS YOUTH GOLF INC: $281,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL KA…+1 more: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsSALINA ART CENTER INC: $135,000 · Arts & CultureSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $95,000 · Arts & CultureSALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureASHBY HOUSE LTD: $58,000 · Housing & ShelterSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $52,500 · Housing & ShelterDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesHospice of Salina Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesSALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesSUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $63,000 · Health
Other$2,059,500Education$379,000Recreation & Sports$287,000Arts & Culture$254,000Housing & Shelter$110,500Human Services$92,000Health$63,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTRAL KANSAS YOUTH GOLF INC: $281,000 over 7y, 50% of budgetSALINA ART CENTER INC: $135,000 over 9y, 4.1% of budgetKANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $105,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY COLLEGE: $100,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION: $95,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSALINA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $73,000 over 9y, 5.5% of budgetSUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC: $63,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetSALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetASHBY HOUSE LTD: $58,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetSALINA RESCUE MISSION INC: $52,500 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL KANSAS INC: $50,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY AND PARENTING SERVICE INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSALINA HELP FOR HOUSING: $40,000 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetSALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES INC: $24,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetKANSAS ASSOCIATION OF CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL AGENCIES: $21,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Salina Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $15,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Salina Community Foundation: $14,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE CHLOE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING JR CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSALINA CROSSROADS MARATHON: $6,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSALINA CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPRAIRIELAND MARKET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Smoot Charitable Foun…Earl Bane FoundationGreater Salina Commun…Mike Berkley Family F…Salina Regional Healt…McCune & Middlekauff …Morrison Foundation T…Milton I and Frances …Anderson Family Found…Mildred and Rolland M…Salina Area United Wa…Zimmerman Family Foun…
Smoot Charitable FoundationKS60.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 84 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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