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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,158 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($201,694). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$425k
Revenue FY2025
8
Funders on record
$350k
Grants received
$655k
Net assets
4/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 85%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($175k) Expenses 100 ($25k) Net assets 100 ($326k)2018 Revenue 172 ($301k) Expenses 1075 ($271k) Net assets 115 ($374k)2019 Revenue 282 ($495k) Expenses 1613 ($406k) Net assets 144 ($468k)2020 Revenue 339 ($594k) Expenses 1588 ($400k) Net assets 195 ($637k)2021 Revenue 244 ($427k) Expenses 1560 ($393k) Net assets 231 ($754k)2022 Revenue 92 ($162k) Expenses 1116 ($281k) Net assets 202 ($658k)2023 Revenue 164 ($288k) Expenses 637 ($161k) Net assets 236 ($768k)2024 Revenue 95 ($167k) Expenses 1208 ($304k) Net assets 211 ($686k)2025 Revenue 243 ($425k) Expenses 1883 ($474k) Net assets 201 ($655k)
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Revenue (243)Expenses (1883)Net assets (201)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$150k
17
$30k
18
$88k
19
$194k
20
$34k
21
$119k
22
$128k
23
$137k
24
$49k
25
4.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $81k.

Left out of every figure on this page: $1.9M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest American Civil Liberties Union Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS raised.

From the IRS filings of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

58%
largest funder
95%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 91% · 2022 73% · 2023 93%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

60% of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 4 states in all.

NY
NE
MO
KS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Kansas

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 30%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Kansas · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS?
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $350,158 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($201,694). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $350,158 in grants to AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS?
THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $201,694 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KANSAS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 8funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing