Kansas · Nonprofit
ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,500 to it, the largest being ROBERT E AND PATRICIA SCHMIDT FOUNDATION ($133,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2021
- $120k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $149k
- Net assets
- $0
What Ellis County Development Corporation does
Mission
To develop a community convention center for use as a public facility operated in conjunction with fort hays state university to support community development and education, including use as a learning tool and training center for fort hays state university's tourism and hospitality managment/marketing/leadership curriculum and north central kansas technical college's culinary arts program; seek funding through federal, state, and foundation grants to create training programs and facilities to meet industry needs for skilled workers to train underemployed and unemployed individuals; serve as a catalyst to attract private investment to develop affordable housing; foster education research in areas of agriculture science, bioscience, and alternative energy; and develop programs consistent with the goal of preventing community deterioration.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Seek funding through federal, state, and foundation grants to create training programs and facilities to meet industry needs for skilled workers and to train underemployed and unemployed individuals.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.5M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $9k → $78k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’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
ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 97% — 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.
Where its funders are
96% of ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Organizations like ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
14%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: 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 ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $148,500 to it, the largest being ROBERT E AND PATRICIA SCHMIDT FOUNDATION ($133,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $148,500 in grants to ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- ROBERT E AND PATRICIA SCHMIDT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $133,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ELLIS COUNTY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 3 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing