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· Private foundation
WALTER E & LUCY M ROUSH CHARITABLE TRUST
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$63k
Granted FY2025
3
Grants
1
Communities
$21k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Human Services$108kCivil Rights$71kHousing & Shelter$70kYouth Development$69kArts & Culture$15kOther$193k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
topeka
2020
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2021
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2022
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2023
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2024
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2025
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$21,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- DOORSTEP INC$21,000
- KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE$21,000
- CASA OF SHAWNEE COUNTY INC$21,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $108k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$442k · 7 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
6
Total granted
$442k
$84k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+28%
+10%
Still filing today
100%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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
- DIDOORSTEP INC7× · 2019–2025 · $119k · revenue +129%
- TRTOPEKA RESCUE MISSION4× · 2021–2024 · $70k · revenue +30%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA4× · 2020–2023 · $69k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SMSUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INCone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +10%
- UMUNITED METHODIST HOMES INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -49%
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS INCone grant, 2018 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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North Central Kansas Housing
Community Improvement
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Southeast Kansas Independent Living
Assist individuals with disabilities in learning to live independently; secure housing, transportation and financing for disabled customers; assist business in adhereing to the americans with disabilities act.
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The Wichita Children's Home
To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…
Human Services
4
Youth for Christ International of Topeka
Tyfc reaches young people everywhere, working together with the local churches and other like-minded partners to raise up lifelong followers of jesus who lead by their godliness in lifestyle, devotion to the word of god and prayer, passion…
Youth Development
5
Humanities Kansas Inc
Humanities kansas provides leadership, resources, and programs that promote the understanding of the history, traditions, and ideas that shape our lives and strengthen our sense of community.
Arts & Culture
6
Freedom House Ministries
House of Hope Kansas City is a Christian-based nonprofit organization that exists to rescue the next generation from hurt and trauma. We fulfill this mission by providing a 1) comprehensive , long-term residential therapeutic program for…
Education
7
Catholic Charities Inc
Operates homeless & domestic violence shelters, provides counseling, adult day services, food pantry.
Human Services
8
Hillcrest Ministries of Midamerica
The mission of hillcrest transitional housing is to be a transitional housing program that helps move homeless families and youth from homelessness to self-sufficiency, becoming self-supportingself-reliant contributors to society.
Human Services
9
Safehome Inc
Safehome provides shelter, advocacy, counseling, and education services to break the cycle of domestic violence.
Human Services
10
Friends of the Topeka and Shawnee
To establish closer relations between the topeka and shawnee county public library and the people it serves; to aid, promote, develop and advance the operation of the library; and to support and cooperate with the library in developing…
Education
11
Helping Hands Humane Society Inc
To provide shelter and care for abandoned animals in topeka and shawnee county, kansas.
Animals
12
Mercy Kansas Communities
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Topeka Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sunflower Music Festival Inc. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$193,450Human Services$107,550Civil Rights$71,000Housing & Shelter$70,250Youth Development$69,250Arts & Culture$15,000
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 DOORSTEP INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF SHAWNEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF TOPEKA ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LETS HELP INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds TOPEKA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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.
Topeka Community FoundationKS26.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Topeka Community Foundation · Schwartz Foundation · United Way of Kaw Valley Inc · Global Impact · Stormont-Vail Foundation · Blanche Bryden Foundation · Wmr Family Foundation 045351-000 · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation WALTER E & LUCY M ROUSH CHARITABLE TRUST 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 481079501 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SUNFLOWER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to Walter E & Lucy M Roush Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to Walter E & Lucy M Roush Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines