Kansas · Nonprofit
DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION
DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,987,898 to it, the largest being TOPEKA LODGING ASSOCIATION ($2,332,905). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Walter E & Lucy M Roush Charitable Trustshared funders
- Humanities Kansas Incportfolio match
- The Mariah Fund Incportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 59% · 2018 6% · 2019 38% · 2020 51% · 2021 39% · 2022 35% · 2023 40% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $398k → $350k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1.3M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Growth Organization of Topekashawnee Co). These are real filings, and they are not money DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION’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
DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% 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
91% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 78% · 2020 73% · 2021 90% · 2022 90% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
96% of DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 131 organizations that share them.
- Walter E & Lucy M Roush Charitable Trustshared fundersTX · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Humanities Kansas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mariah Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Heavy Constructors Association of the Grtr Kc Area Industry Advancement Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kansas Rural Communities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community National Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jeffris Family Foundation Ltdportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Minnesota Prairie Wind Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emporia Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dane G Hansen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Belt Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION
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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
58%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Downtown Topeka Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION?
- DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,987,898 to it, the largest being TOPEKA LODGING ASSOCIATION ($2,332,905). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $2,987,898 in grants to DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION?
- TOPEKA LODGING ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,332,905 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DOWNTOWN TOPEKA FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6funders 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