· Private foundation
Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+7 grants · $4.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WALTER S & EVAN C JONES FOUNDATION | $1,425,000 |
| EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,250,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH CTR OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS | $507,573 |
| EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| FLINT HILLS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PLUMB PLACE | $333,333 |
| CITY OF OLPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $250,000 |
| NORTHEAST KANSAS LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $166,667 |
| EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP | $150,000 |
| CITY OF SCRANTON | $150,000 |
| USD # 456 MARAIS DES CYGNES VALLEY | $129,498 |
| SOS INC | $110,000 |
| CITY OF CARBONDALE | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MHMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS5× · 2020–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +95%
- ECEAST CENTRAL KANSAS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $745k · revenue +36%
- CICAREARC INC2× · 2022–2023 · $400k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- U2USD # 251 - NORTH LYON COUNTYone grant, 2022 · $278k
- EREMPORIA RESCUE MISSION INCone grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -83% · 26% of their budget
- U4USD # 420 - OSAGE CITYone grant, 2023 · $150k
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.
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.
Provide low income, multi family housing under sec. 8 of the national housing act.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
To provide fundraising & administrative assistance to casa organizations throughout the state of kansas
Providing innovative research, message guidance, communication training, communication expertise,and collaborative strategies to aligned organizations to grow their capacity and improve collaborationand coordination among partner groups in…
Encap provides high-impact programs to help people get ahead.
Helping people move from poverty towards prosperity.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
Designed to provide high quality value-added consulting services, administrative support, and low-cost flexible facilities for start-up and growth-oriented companies that will result in positive business activity and job creation in…
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Walter S & Evan C Jones Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ↗
- Who funds EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FLINT HILLS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE FLINT HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds CAREARC INC ↗
- Who funds HETLINGER DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds Emporia Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLUMB PLACE INC DBA SOUTHWICK HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST KANSAS LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds IMAGINARIUM INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP ALEXANDER OF EMPORIA LYON COUNTY KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF THE FLINT HILLS I ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Emporia Community Foundation · Lewis Humphreys Charitable Trust · The Trusler Foundation Inc · Jane & Bernard Reeble Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · United Way of the Flint Hills Inc · Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans · Loretto a Langley Trust · E L and Z Irene Hopkins Private Foundation · Douglas County Community Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Ima Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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