· Community foundation
Western Kansas Community Foundation
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Association8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +93%
- EHEMMAUS HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $769k · revenue +27% · 38% of their budget
- GCGARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $634k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- KCKearny County Hospitalone grant, 2019 · $25k
- WCWICHITA COUNTY PARK & RECREATIONone grant, 2018 · $22k
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $21k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
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…
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Provide physician, dental and related healthcare services through clinics located in geary and riley county, kansas.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
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
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
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…
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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 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.
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.
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.