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.

Western Kansas Community Foundation

Western Kansas Community Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Community foundation

Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

$3.7M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.5M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% 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

02FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 60 grants below total $3,241,835, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,701,968 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $460,133 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

States reached

$51M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$9.5M · 59 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Total granted

$9.5M

$467k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

+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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

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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

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc

Community Improvement

Kansas Insurance & Financial Services Education Foundation

Education

Kansas Business Hall of Fame Inc

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South Central Community Foundation

The Foundation's mission is to enhance the life, culture and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy

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

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…

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Kingdom Kids Childcare Center Inc

The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for charitable, educational, religious and scientific purposes as defined by its Articles of Incorporation including, without limitation, to provide Christian based training…

Human Services

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

Kansas Recovery Network

Health

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.

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Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy

Labette County Medical Center

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

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas Childrens Service League; 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.

04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 126 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/74

Grantees still filing

51/74

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$5,820,557Education$1,891,028Community Improvement$1,716,804Human Services$1,450,393Philanthropy$1,152,781Animals$600,527Health$253,704

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Western Kansas Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Kansas Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

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, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home