Kansas · Nonprofit
GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC
GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,926 to it, the largest being Dorothy M Morrison Foundation ($306,114). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $521k
- Net assets
- $75k
What Great Bend Foundation Inc does
Mission
The purpose of the organization is to receive gifts and contributions for the purchase and maintenance of public buildings and monuments for the city of great bend.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Funds for the maintenance of great bend city parks and public areas
$65,977 spentof which $65,977 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $65,977.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2024 to 2025, from $120k to $75k (−38%).
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.
98% of GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $17k → $22k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 GREAT BEND FOUNDATION 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
GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
32% 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 GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 65% · 2019 92% · 2020 100% · 2021 56% · 2022 100% · 2023 66% — 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
100% of GREAT BEND FOUNDATION 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. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,647 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC
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.
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC?
- GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC (Kansas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,926 to it, the largest being Dorothy M Morrison Foundation ($306,114). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $520,926 in grants to GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREAT BEND FOUNDATION INC?
- Dorothy M Morrison Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $306,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREAT BEND FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 5 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing