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Who funds employment in Kansas

$44M reached 96 employment organizations in Kansas, from 183 funders, with no single one dominating.

$44M
granted
96
organizations
34%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of employment in Kansas

The funders giving the most to employment organizations in Kansas, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1L C Industries Foundation$5M2Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5M3Dallas County Association for the Blind Trust Fund$3M4Envision Dallas Lighthouse Foundation$2M5Kansas All-Star Scholars Fund Inc$2M6Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Inc$2M7Envision Foundation Inc$2M8Ascendium Education Solutions Inc$2M9Midwest Urban Strategies$1M10Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation$1M

Employment organizations in Kansas that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

86 other employment organizations$11M
Envision Foundation Inc$7MGoodwill Industries of Kansas Inc$6MDallas Lighthouse for the Blind Inc$6MWorkforce Alliance of South Central Kansas Inc$4MEnvision Industries Inc$2MInternational Institute for Women in Construction$2M

How to find employment funders in Kansas

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Kansas

    The funders giving the most to employment in Kansas are L C Industries Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Dallas County Association for the Blind Trust Fund. A funder already writing employment checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.

  3. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    66% of employment money in Kansas comes from funders elsewhere, so national employment funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Kansas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a employment nonprofit in Kansas?
Start with the funders already giving to employment in Kansas, currently L C Industries Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Dallas County Association for the Blind Trust Fund. Then look at who funds the employment organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Kansas from out of state.
Who is the largest employment funder in Kansas?
L C Industries Foundation gives the most to employment organizations in Kansas, $5M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to employment in Kansas?
$44M reached 96 employment organizations in Kansas, from 183 funders. 34% came from funders also based in Kansas.
How recent is this data?
It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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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 camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines
Giving abroad
which US foundations fund each country

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.