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Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

$3.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
60
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Education$2.5MHuman Services$2.4MCommunity Improvement$1.8MPhilanthropy$1.7MYouth Development$882kReligion$721kArts & Culture$711kHealth$644kOther$0
02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 60 grants below total $3,241,835 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,701,968 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $460,133 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $788k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $851k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$18,120
Median grant
1
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wichita County Community Foundation Inc$1,534,909
Garden City Community College Endowment Association$162,712
Emmaus House$107,642
University of Kansas Endowment Association$100,000
Kansas Food Bank$100,000
Finney County United Way$77,969
Garden City Family YMCA$65,260
Community Congregational Church$63,505
Finney County Public Library$62,198
Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo$57,616
Shepherd of the Plains Foundation Inc$54,245
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney & Kearny Counties$49,304
Real Men Real Leaders Inc$43,805
Spirit of the Plains CASA$42,530
Lakeside Camp of the United Methodist Church$41,525
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%EMBERHOPE YOUTHVILLE: $8k → 9%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $23k → 12%Chains Break in Partnership with CRC: $21k → 10%Grow & Learn Childcare Center Inc: $37k → 11%Grow & Learn Childcare Center Inc: $13k → 11%TFI FAMILY SERVICES INC: $13k → 16%Garden City Family YMCA: $74k → 12%Garden City Family YMCA: $71k → 12%Garden City Family YMCA: $65k → 12%Garden City Family YMCA: $60k → 12%GARDEN CITY FAMILY YMCA: $58k → 12%RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $55k → 12%Real Men Real Leaders Inc: $55k → 12%Real Men Real Leaders Inc: $52k → 12%GARDEN CITY FAMILY YMCA: $50k → 12%Meals on Wheels: $49k → 12%Finney County Senior Center: $49k → 12%Garden City Family YMCA: $45k → 12%GARDEN CITY FAMILY YMCA: $44k → 12%Real Men Real Leaders Inc: $44k → 12%Russell Child Development Center: $32k → 12%Real Men Real Leaders: $31k → 12%Finney County Senior Center: $29k → 12%Finney County Senior Center: $25k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $25k → 12%REAL MEN REAL LEADERS: $24k → 12%Finney County Senior Center: $24k → 12%Kansas Children's Service League: $24k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $23k → 12%Finney County Senior Center: $23k → 12%RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $22k → 12%Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas: $19k → 12%Russell Child Development Center: $18k → 12%FINNEY COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $18k → 12%Finney County Childcare and Early Learning Network: $18k → 12%Russell Child Development Center: $17k → 12%Russell Child Development Center: $16k → 12%Kansas Children's Service League: $12k → 12%FINNEY COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $11k → 12%Meals on Wheels: $11k → 12%Meals on Wheels: $11k → 12%Real Men Real Leaders: $11k → 12%Russell Child Development Center: $11k → 12%Finney County Commission on Aging Inc: $10k → 12%Meals on Wheels: $10k → 12%Kansas Childrens Service League: $10k → 12%FINNEY COUNTY SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 12%Community Day Care Center DBA Little Leaders: $9k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.5M · 59 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
50

Total granted

$9.5M
$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

66%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureAnimalsOther

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

  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +93%
  • EH
    EMMAUS HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $769k · revenue +27% · 38% of their budget
  • GC
    GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $634k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • KC
    Kearny County Hospital
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • WC
    WICHITA COUNTY PARK & RECREATION
    one grant, 2018 · $22k
  • JC
    JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $21k

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.

1
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
2
Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation
Education
3
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
4
Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc
5
Kansas Cooperative Council

The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…

6
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
7
Konza Prairie Community Health Center Inc

Provide physician, dental and related healthcare services through clinics located in geary and riley county, kansas.

Health
8
Labette County Medical Center

We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.

Health
9
Kansas Association of Conservation Districts

Engage in educational, scientific, and governmental efforts to conserve, develop, and improve the use of land, soil, water, plants, animals, and other natural resources within the state of kansas

Community Improvement
10
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment
11
Children's Advocacy Centers of Kansas Inc

The children's advocacy center of kansas (cacks) is committed to securing appropriate resources for ensuring the healthy establishment and sustainability of kansas child advocacy centers and the kansas chapter. cacks is committed to…

Youth Development
12
Kansas City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League and the most unlike its peers is Ces Best. 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 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%8%<5yr13%17%5–10yr16%7%10–20yr13%15%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr24%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%14%<5yr13%17%5–10yr16%3%10–20yr13%7%20–35yr15%22%35–55yr24%37%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%3/124
the rest of the field
11%
309/2,932

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.

04the grantee network

73 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 73 of the 126 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
51/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EMMAUS HOUSE INC — $768,974 · OtherEMMAUS HOUSE INCFINNEY COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $544,583 · OtherFINNEY COUNTY UNITED WAY INCFRIENDS OF THE FINNEY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $486,087 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FINNEY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYCOMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $448,615 · OtherCOMMUNITY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHShepherd of the Plains Foundation — $282,047 · OtherBig Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc — $253,234 · OtherSPIRIT OF THE PLAINS CASA INC — $250,994 · Other+76 more — $2,786,023 · Other+76 moreThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $1,120,000 · EducationThe Kansas Unive…GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION — $633,800 · EducationGARDEN CITY COMM…+10 more — $137,228 · Education+10 moreWICHITA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,534,909 · Community ImprovementWICHITA COUNTY …WICHITA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $133,593 · Community ImprovementWICHITA COUNTY …+2 more — $48,302 · Community ImprovementYoung Men's Christian Association of Southwest Kansas Inc — $471,960 · Human ServicesYoung Men's …FINNEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC — $285,712 · Human ServicesFINNEY COUNT…REAL MEN REAL LEADERS INC — $217,291 · Human ServicesREAL MEN REA…THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $177,429 · Human ServicesTHE RUSSELL …Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas — $94,955 · Human ServicesCatholic Cha…GROW & LEARN CHILDCARE CENTER INC — $55,760 · Human ServicesKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE — $51,365 · Human Services+7 more — $95,921 · Human Services+7 moreGRANT COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,062,980 · PhilanthropyGRANT COUN…Western Kansas Community Foundation — $84,801 · PhilanthropyWestern Ka…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF LEE RICHARDSON ZOO INC — $369,226 · AnimalsFINNEY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $221,301 · Animals+1 more — $10,000 · AnimalsCOMMONSPIRIT KANSAS INC — $137,227 · HealthLEAVE A LEGACY FOUNDATION — $66,579 · HealthABC PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC — $20,878 · HealthPERFECT FIT FOUNDATION OF SWK — $12,500 · Health+3 more — $16,520 · Health
Other$5,820,557Education$1,891,028Community Improvement$1,716,804Human Services$1,450,393Philanthropy$1,152,781Animals$600,527Health$253,704

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWICHITA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,534,909 over 1y, 81% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association — $1,120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEMMAUS HOUSE INC — $768,974 over 8y, 38% of budgetGARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION — $633,800 over 8y, 15% of budgetFINNEY COUNTY UNITED WAY INC — $544,583 over 8y, 30% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Southwest Kansas Inc — $471,960 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF LEE RICHARDSON ZOO INC — $369,226 over 8y, 25% of budgetFINNEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC — $285,712 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetShepherd of the Plains Foundation — $282,047 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc — $253,234 over 8y, 21% of budgetSPIRIT OF THE PLAINS CASA INC — $250,994 over 8y, 21% of budgetFINNEY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $221,301 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetREAL MEN REAL LEADERS INC — $217,291 over 6y, 28% of budgetTHE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $177,429 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC — $170,169 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetKANZA Society Inc — $152,975 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetTHE FINNEY COUNTY KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $149,137 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetCOMMONSPIRIT KANSAS INC — $137,227 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT — $133,593 over 5y, 20% of budgetUNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC — $113,248 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING WATER RANCH — $104,180 over 2y, 22% of budgetGARDEN CITY ARTS INC — $96,884 over 6y, 23% of budgetCatholic Charities of Southwest Kansas — $94,955 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetSanta Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc — $86,455 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetClaude and Donalda Stauth Foundation — $85,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetWestern Kansas Community Foundation — $84,801 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWestern Kansas Child Advocacy Center — $83,157 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLEAVE A LEGACY FOUNDATION — $66,579 over 6y, 48% of budgetFAMILY CRISIS SERVICES INC — $62,702 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetGROW & LEARN CHILDCARE CENTER INC — $55,760 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetMOSAIC — $55,146 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH CORE MINISTRIES INC — $54,280 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetMILES OF SMILES INC — $51,414 over 5y, 18% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE — $51,365 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTUMBLEWEED FESTIVAL INC — $45,735 over 6y, 61% of budgetGREAT PLAINS MAKERSPACE — $28,302 over 4y, 23% of budgetWichita County Municipal Golf Course Inc — $27,059 over 2y, 20% of budgetSTEPPING STONE SHELTER INC — $23,750 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER — $21,752 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetChains Break — $21,275 over 1y, 36% of budgetABC PREGNANCY CARE CENTER INC — $20,878 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBluejay Education Foundation — $20,200 over 1y, 32% of budgetLAKIN COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT GROUP — $20,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $16,614 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRI-AGENCY INTERVENTION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTFI FAMILY SERVICES INC — $13,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPERFECT FIT FOUNDATION OF SWK — $12,500 over 1y, 8.0% of budget
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 WICHITA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association
  • Who funds GRANT COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
  • Who funds EMMAUS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds FINNEY COUNTY UNITED WAY INC
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Southwest Kansas Inc
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LEE RICHARDSON ZOO INC
  • Who funds FINNEY COUNTY COMMITTEE ON AGING INC
  • Who funds Shepherd of the Plains Foundation
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney and Kearny Counties Inc
  • Who funds SPIRIT OF THE PLAINS CASA INC
  • Who funds FINNEY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds REAL MEN REAL LEADERS INC
  • Who funds THE RUSSELL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC
  • Who funds KANZA Society Inc
  • Who funds THE FINNEY COUNTY KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds COMMONSPIRIT KANSAS INC
  • Who funds WICHITA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST WESTERN KANSAS MEXICAN- AMERICAN MINISTRIES INC
  • Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC
  • Who funds LIVING WATER RANCH
  • Who funds GARDEN CITY ARTS INC
  • Who funds Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas
  • Who funds Santa Fe Trail Council Boy Scouts of America Inc
  • Who funds Claude and Donalda Stauth Foundation
  • Who funds Western Kansas Community Foundation
  • Who funds Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center
  • Who funds LEAVE A LEGACY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FAMILY CRISIS SERVICES INC
  • Who funds GROW & LEARN CHILDCARE CENTER INC
  • Who funds MOSAIC

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.

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

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 Western Kansas Community 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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