How much did Western Kansas Community Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 43% of Western Kansas Community Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

transferwichita parkpark recreationsibley'sskilledsibleyunified district

2019

privateembracing god'sgod's callcall mosaicmosaic relentlesslyrelentlessly pursuespursues empower

2020

advised distributiondistribution specialendowmentlearningfoodmemberscancer

2021

foundationsscholarshipsurvivors domesticwichitasocialactivitiesnursing

2022

matchday distributionrosel scholarshipaward henryhenry nellienellie hallscholarship rockfry

2023

soberalcohollearningpersonscomeunderorganized welfare

2024

remainfoodsurvivorsmethodist churchestablishlearningsocial

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

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

States reached

$51M

Total assets

Largest grants

Wichita County Community Foundation Inc$1,534,909
Garden City Community College Endowment Association$162,712
Emmaus House$107,642
Kansas Food Bank$100,000
University of Kansas Endowment Association$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

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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 14%. 1% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$11M · 60 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 +43% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$501k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+24%

Still filing today

67%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

GC
GRANT COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
2× · 2017–2018 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
EH
Emmaus House
8× · 2017–2024 · $769k · revenue +5% · 38% of their budget
GC
Garden City Community College Endowment Association
8× · 2017–2024 · $634k · revenue +74%

Funded once

KC
KEARNY COUNTY HOSPITAL
one grant, 2019 · $25k
WC
WICHITA COUNTY PARK & RECREATION
one grant, 2018 · $22k
JC
Johnson County Community College Office of Financial Aid
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.

Kansas City University

Kcu is a community of professionals committed to excellence in the education of highly qualified students in osteopathic medicine, dental medicine and health professions.

Education

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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Heart of Kansas Family Health Care Inc

To provide health care to those who do not qualify for the medicaid program and do not have the financial resources to purchase insurance or health care services themselves.

Health

Central Christian College of Kansas

Educating students within a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college program

Education

Care Center of Kansas City

Swope ridge geriatric center is a not for-profit corporation whose mission is to provide a continuum of long term care services to our community. we are committed to delivering quality health care with compassion and caring for adult…

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University of Kansas Medical Alumni

Alumni association

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Community Health Center of Se Kansas

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health

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

North Central Kansas Housing

Community Improvement

Kansas Public Telecommunications Service

Kpts is your publicly owned television station that educates, engages, entertains and enriches kansans through quality programming and civic leadership.

Arts & Culture

Kansas State Historical Society Inc

To support and promote Kansas history education through the Kansas Historical Society.

Arts & Culture

Kansas Appleseed Center

We believe Kansans, working together, can build a state full of thriving, inclusive, and just communities. We're working for a future where:- All Kansans have the resources they need to support themselves and raise healthy families.- All…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney 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 19% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/126

the rest of the field

274/3,139

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.

05the grantee network

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

70/73

Grantees still filing

54/73

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,822,407Education$1,791,028Community Improvement$1,716,804Human Services$1,450,393Philanthropy$1,152,781Animals$600,527Health$246,854

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.

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 FoundationKS69.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Finnup Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Finney County United Way Inc · Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas · United Way of the Plains Inc · Wichita Foundation · Mary Jo Williams Charitable Trust · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Seward County United Fund · Kansas Association of Child Care · Hutchinson Community Foundation · Delta Dental of Kansas Inc

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 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

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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: Wichita County Community Foundation Inc.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~245 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.3× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 923847849 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 Wichita County Community Foundation 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 245 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Western Kansas Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Western Kansas Community Foundation 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.

Western Kansas Community Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Western Kansas Community Foundation?

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Western Kansas Community Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

73 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Western Kansas Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph