Kansas · Community foundation
Western Kansas Community Foundation
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 60
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $3.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $18,120
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,534,909
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 61
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $51M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Western Kansas Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 56 | $3.2M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 61 | $1.7M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $1.3M | 26% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $1.0M | 50% |
| FY2017 | 26 | $463k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Education$2.5MHuman Services$2.4MCommunity Improvement$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.7MYouth Development$882kReligion$721kArts & Culture$711kHealth$644kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita County Community Foundation Inc | $1,534,909 | 1 | 81% |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $1,120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Emmaus House Inc | $768,974 | 8 | 38% |
| Garden City Community College Endowment Association | $633,800 | 8 | 15% |
| Finney County United Way Inc | $544,583 | 8 | 30% |
| Friends of the Finney County Public Library | $486,087 | 8 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Southwest Kansas Inc | $471,960 | 8 | 4% |
| Community Congregational Church | $448,615 | 8 | n/a |
| Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo Inc | $369,226 | 8 | 25% |
| Finney County Committee on Aging Inc | $285,712 | 8 | 6% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita County Community Foundation Inc | $1,534,909 | 1 | 81% |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $1,120,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Emmaus House Inc | $768,974 | 8 | 38% |
| Garden City Community College Endowment Association | $633,800 | 8 | 15% |
| Finney County United Way Inc | $544,583 | 8 | 30% |
| Friends of the Finney County Public Library | $486,087 | 8 | n/a |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Southwest Kansas Inc | $471,960 | 8 | 4% |
| Community Congregational Church | $448,615 | 8 | n/a |
| Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo Inc | $369,226 | 8 | 25% |
| Finney County Committee on Aging Inc | $285,712 | 8 | 6% |
| Shepherd of the Plains Foundation | $282,047 | 7 | 2% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc | $253,234 | 8 | 21% |
| Spirit of the Plains Casa Inc | $250,994 | 8 | 21% |
| Finney County Humane Society Inc | $221,301 | 8 | 7% |
| Real Men Real Leaders Inc | $217,291 | 6 | 28% |
| Salvation Army | $184,135 | 8 | n/a |
| The Russell Child Development Center Inc | $177,429 | 7 | 1% |
| Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland Inc | $170,169 | 8 | 1% |
| Usd 457 Garden City Public Schools | $163,648 | 7 | n/a |
| KANZA Society Inc | $152,975 | 8 | 2% |
| The Finney County Kansas Historical Society Inc | $149,137 | 7 | 9% |
| Commonspirit Kansas Inc | $137,227 | 7 | 0% |
| Wichita County Economic Development | $133,593 | 5 | 20% |
| United Methodist Western Kansas Mexican- American Ministries Inc | $113,248 | 5 | 0% |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $105,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Living Water Ranch | $104,180 | 2 | 22% |
| Garden City Arts Inc | $96,884 | 6 | 23% |
| Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas | $94,955 | 4 | 1% |
| Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc | $86,455 | 3 | 10% |
| Claude and Donalda Stauth Foundation | $85,000 | 8 | 17% |
| Community Inc | $83,992 | 3 | n/a |
| City of Leoti | $83,964 | 3 | n/a |
| Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center | $83,157 | 6 | 1% |
| Leave a Legacy Foundation | $66,579 | 6 | 48% |
| Family Crisis Services Inc | $62,702 | 5 | 2% |
| Garden City Leadership Foundation | $58,400 | 6 | n/a |
| Grow & Learn Childcare Center Inc | $55,760 | 3 | 5% |
| Mosaic | $55,146 | 5 | 0% |
| Youth Core Ministries Inc | $54,280 | 3 | 3% |
| Miles of Smiles Inc | $51,414 | 5 | 18% |
| Kansas Childrens Service League | $51,365 | 4 | 0% |
| Tumbleweed Festival Inc | $45,735 | 6 | 61% |
| Kansas Oral History Project | $41,670 | 2 | n/a |
| First United Methodist Church | $36,786 | 3 | n/a |
| Wichita County 4-H & Fair | $36,680 | 2 | n/a |
| City of Garden City | $35,336 | 3 | n/a |
| Garden City Presbyterian Church | $34,436 | 5 | n/a |
| Fort Hays State University | $32,250 | 2 | n/a |
| Friends of the Cimarron City Library Inc | $31,635 | 2 | n/a |
| Great Plains Makerspace | $28,302 | 4 | 23% |
| Wichita County Municipal Golf Course Inc | $27,059 | 2 | 20% |
| Kearny County Hospital | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Stepping Stone Shelter Inc | $23,750 | 2 | 9% |
| Community Day Care Center | $21,752 | 3 | 1% |
| Wichita County Park & Recreation | $21,628 | 1 | n/a |
| Chains Break | $21,275 | 1 | 36% |
| Johnson County Community College | $21,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Abc Pregnancy Care Center Inc | $20,878 | 2 | 6% |
| Bluejay Education Foundation | $20,200 | 1 | 32% |
| Lakin Community Empowerment Group | $20,000 | 1 | 44% |
| Wayne State University | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oklahoma State University | $19,893 | 2 | n/a |
| Magic's HOPE Animal Assisted Therapies & Learning | $19,867 | 3 | n/a |
| Plymouth Preschool Learning Center | $19,160 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita County Health Center | $18,634 | 3 | n/a |
| Finney County Childcare & Early Learning Network Inc | $18,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Usd #477 - Ingalls Public Schools | $17,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Ktwu | $17,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Garden City Recreation Commission | $16,929 | 2 | n/a |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $16,614 | 1 | 0% |
| Tri-Agency Intervention Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Stevens County Hospital DBA Pioneer Manor | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| High Plains Housing Development Corporation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Cimarron City Library | $14,515 | 1 | n/a |
| Tfi Family Services Inc | $13,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Perfect Fit Foundation of Swk | $12,500 | 1 | 8% |
| Ces Best | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Hope in the Valley Equine Rescue and Sanctuary Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Warriors for Youth Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Carter Tough Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| USD 217 Rolla School | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sublette Rotary Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oma's Country Critters Sanctuary Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| City of Lakin | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita County Fair Association | $9,480 | 1 | n/a |
| St Catherine Hospital Development Foundation | $9,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Syracuse Christian Academy | $8,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of Garden City Arts | $8,748 | 1 | n/a |
| Emberhope Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Tigers in Action Inc | $7,469 | 1 | 11% |
| The Southwestern College | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas State University | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas Athletics Inc | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pittsburg State University | $7,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Oklahoma City University | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Barclay College | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The University of Charleston Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wichita Women's Initiative Network Inc | $7,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Satanta Aging Program Inc | $6,994 | 1 | 3% |
| Red Dog Childrens Museum | $6,790 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita Fellowship Club Inc | $6,520 | 1 | 2% |
| Scott County Historical Society Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 5% |
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Morton County Public Library | $6,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Methodist Camp Lakeside | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Meade County Recreation | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Garden City Church of the Nazarene | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Thrift Shoppe Inc | $5,850 | 1 | n/a |
| Bernadine Sitts Intermidiate Center | $5,800 | 1 | n/a |
| Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital Auxiliary | $5,784 | 1 | n/a |
| Fields Memorial Wesleyan Church | $5,700 | 1 | n/a |
| Silver Sage Renaissance Festival | $5,677 | 1 | n/a |
| Smoky Hills Public Television Corp | $5,600 | 1 | 0% |
| Grace Place Pregnancy Care Center Inc | $5,520 | 1 | 4% |
| Garden City Ministerial Alliance | $5,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas Association of Community Foundations | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lucy Webb Hayes National Training School for Deaconesses & Missionaries | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Western Kansas Low Vision Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Southwest Kansas Community Concerts Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas Society for Children With Challenges | $5,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Bethany College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bethany Home Association of Lindsborg Kansas | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Western Kansas Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 67.
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.
Finnup FoundationKS64× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Finnup Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · Finney County United Way Inc · Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust · Baughman Foundation · Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas Foundation Inc · Cooper Clark Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAY · Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans
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.
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About Western Kansas Community Foundation
- How much does Western Kansas Community Foundation give?
- Western Kansas Community Foundation reported 60 itemized grants totaling $3,241,835, out of $3,701,968 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 61 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Western Kansas Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Human Services (19%), Community Improvement (14%).
- Who are Western Kansas Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Wichita County Community Foundation Inc ($1.5M), The Kansas University Endowment Association ($1.1M), Emmaus House Inc ($769k).
- Does Western Kansas Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Western Kansas Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Finnup Foundation, Kansas Health Foundation, Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas.
- Where is Western Kansas Community Foundation based?
- Western Kansas Community Foundation is based in KS.
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More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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