Kansas · Nonprofit
Great Plains Development Inc
Great Plains Development Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,050 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $315k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $188k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Great Plains Development Inc does
Mission
Under the oversight of its 28 county membership and 10 member Board of Directors, GPDI provides professional leadership and technical assistance in financing, loan packaging and business planning to individuals, businesses and government agencies for the purpose of stimulating economic development and job creation in our 28 county area. Our resources also include programs that assist our cities and counties with grant writing and certified administration for community improvement, housing and urgent need projects. Many of its services and grants require a charitable not-for-profit status.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Economic Development Administration programs, including servicing of six revolving loans under the Economic Development Administration revolving loan program. These loans provide for working capital, inventory, equipment, machinery and other fixed assets in 22 eligible counties.
$150,325 spent$74,551 earned by the program48% of program spendingCommunity Development Block Grant program - assistance with grant applications and certified administration for Community Development Block Grants. During the current year, there was no administration for new projects.
$78,953 spent$5,429 earned by the program25% of program spendingNetwork Kansas GrowKS programs - The Network Kansas GrowKS funds represent pass through funding for making loans. Counties received grant funding to make the loans and are outsourcing the loan administration to Great Plains. GPDI receives the packaging, closing and any direct expenses incurred. As payments are received on the loans, GPDI keeps $40 of the interest paid plus any late fees and/or service fees.
$0 spent$31,629 earned by the program0% of program spendingAssistance with grant applications, administration, and servicing of loans under the SBA, RBEG, Kansas tax credit, Start Up Kansas/E-Community, Hospitality Industry Relief Emergency, Network Kansas loan programs.
$83,054 spent$169,482 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,332.
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. 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.1M to $1.8M (−13%).
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.
9% of Great Plains Development Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $2k → $150k.
From the IRS filings of Great Plains Development 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 Plains Development Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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: 2019 88% · 2020 74% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
0% of Great Plains Development Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 0% 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
Great Plains Development Inc draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 3 states in all.
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.
Against its field
Great Plains Development Inc holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,175 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,175 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Great Plains Development Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $648k on record.
- Department of Commerce$648k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Great Plains Development 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.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Great Plains Development Inc: 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 Great Plains Development Inc?
- Great Plains Development Inc (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $188,050 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($150,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Great Plains Development Inc have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $188,050 in grants to Great Plains Development Inc.
- Who is the largest funder of Great Plains Development Inc?
- THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Great Plains Development 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 8 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