· Private foundation
Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| FLINT HILLS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY 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 |
| CITY OF SCRANTON | $150,000 |
| EAST CENTRAL KANSAS ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY CORP | $150,000 |
| USD # 456 MARAIS DES CYGNES VALLEY | $129,498 |
| SOS INC | $110,000 |
| CITY OF CARBONDALE | $75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $60,000 |
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 (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 your grants land in higher-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 +6% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas and the most unlike its peers is Walter S & Evan C Jones Foundation. 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 46 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 56 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 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 EMPORIA RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds EMPORIA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST KANSAS LIBRARY FOUNDATION 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 CORNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
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: 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
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 Ws & Ec Jones Testamentary Trust 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.
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