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Who funds public benefit in Kansas

One funder dominates the giving, Kansas Health Foundation, at 34% of the total.

$96M
granted
94
organizations
74%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of public benefit in Kansas

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

1Kansas Health Foundation$33M2Julia Koch Family Philanthropy Fund$28M3Hutchinson Community Foundation$6M4The Patterson Family Foundation$3M5Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$3M6Health Forward Foundation$2M7The Pew Charitable Trusts$2M8The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation$1M9Serveminnesota$1M10Trustees of Tufts College$1M

Public benefit organizations in Kansas that draw the most

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

David Koch Jr Foundation$28MKansas Leadership Center$24MNational Lead for America Inc$9MKansas Health Institute$8M
84 other public benefit organizations$7M
Kansas Fairgrounds Foundation$7MThe Eisenhower Foundation$6M

How to find public benefit funders in Kansas

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Kansas

    The funders giving the most to public benefit in Kansas are Kansas Health Foundation, Julia Koch Family Philanthropy Fund, Hutchinson Community Foundation. A funder already writing public benefit checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 2
    See who funds organizations like yours

    Open the public benefit 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

    26% of public benefit money in Kansas comes from funders elsewhere, so national public benefit funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Kansas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a public benefit nonprofit in Kansas?
Start with the funders already giving to public benefit in Kansas, currently Kansas Health Foundation, Julia Koch Family Philanthropy Fund, Hutchinson Community Foundation. Then look at who funds the public benefit organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Kansas from out of state.
Who is the largest public benefit funder in Kansas?
Kansas Health Foundation gives the most to public benefit organizations in Kansas, $33M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to public benefit in Kansas?
$96M reached 94 public benefit organizations in Kansas, from 354 funders. 74% 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.