Kansas · Nonprofit
FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC
FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,974 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ($32,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $369k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $156k
- Net assets
- $590k
What Friends of the Great Plains Nature Center Inc does
Mission
Support of the great plains nature center and educational events.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The friends support the educational mission of the gpnc by funding 3 naturalist positions and providing program material. During the fiscal year, 1,213 educational programs were delivered, 3,051 persons checked out educational materials for classroom or site visits, and new materials were designed and procured to assist classroom teachers in nature and science education. A total of 43,889 individuals visited the center or attended one of our off-site programs.
$227,790 spentof which $1,225 as grants$333,311 earned by the program83% of program spendingGift shop: we provide program-related educational materials as well as gift and toy resources related to the natural history of the great plains.
$32,000 spent$33,222 earned by the program12% of program spendingVolunteer activities: 245 volunteers provided 6,195 hours of staffing for special events and for educational administrative assistance. They also assisted with pre-k programming, development of interpretive materials and educational publications, trial maintenance, and caring for program animals.
$14,643 spent$196 earned by the program5% of program spendingAll other accomplishments: walk with wildlife: visitors can see native great plains animals in an open setting among plants of the prairie. There were 820 individual participants. Outdoor kansas kids: a one-day event for families with 18 hands-on stations and 199 participants. Aquatic education: from january through october 2025, gpnc taught 26 aquatic programs, teaching 61 adults and 483 students about everything from water quality in our ecosystems to benthic macroinvertebrates (bmi), all in chisholm creek park.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $274,433.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $455k to $615k (+35%).
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: 2020 66% · 2021 80% · 2022 45% · 2023 57% · 2024 55% · 2025 60%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $100 → $52k.
5 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC’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
FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
84% 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 FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 71% · 2022 81% · 2023 41% — 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
25% of FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.
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
52% of FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states 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.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 6 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,433 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC?
- FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC (Kansas) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,974 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ($32,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $155,974 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC?
- UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 13 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