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Who funds housing in Kansas

Housing funding in Kansas is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Center of Hope Inc leads, and the money reaches 188 groups.

$87M
granted
188
organizations
56%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of housing in Kansas

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

1United Way of the Plains Inc$8M2Hutchinson Community Foundation$5M3Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation$5M4Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5M5Saint Francis Ministries Group Return$3M6The Sunderland Foundation$2M7Health Forward Foundation$2M8Habitat for Humanity International Inc$2M9Douglas County Community Foundation$2M10Farmhouse Foundation$2M

Housing organizations in Kansas that draw the most

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

178 other housing organizations$41M
Center of Hope Inc$9MChwc Inc$6MNew Beginnings Inc$6MWichita Habitat for Humanity Inc$6MTopeka Rescue Mission Inc$4MFamily Promise of Lawrence Inc$3MNew Hope Shelter Inc$3MSaint Francis Ministries Inc$3MTopeka Habitat for Humanity$3M

How to find housing funders in Kansas

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Kansas

    The funders giving the most to housing in Kansas are United Way of the Plains Inc, Hutchinson Community Foundation, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. A funder already writing housing checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the housing 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

    44% of housing money in Kansas comes from funders elsewhere, so national housing funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Kansas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a housing nonprofit in Kansas?
Start with the funders already giving to housing in Kansas, currently United Way of the Plains Inc, Hutchinson Community Foundation, Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Then look at who funds the housing organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Kansas from out of state.
Who is the largest housing funder in Kansas?
United Way of the Plains Inc gives the most to housing organizations in Kansas, $8M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to housing in Kansas?
$87M reached 188 housing organizations in Kansas, from 374 funders. 56% 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.

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 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.