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GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,580,807 to it, the largest being Greater Salina Community Foundation ($28,065,213). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$25M
Funders on record
17
Grants received
$32M
Net assets
$90M
11/17 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programGREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$28M

Recipients

166

Contributions on record

$32M

Donors on record

17

Payments out are 0.89x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.

01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($2.1M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 131 ($5.9M) Expenses 138 ($2.9M) Net assets 104 ($18M)2019 Revenue 120 ($5.4M) Expenses 136 ($2.8M) Net assets 128 ($22M)2020 Revenue 130 ($5.8M) Expenses 133 ($2.8M) Net assets 147 ($26M)2021 Revenue 473 ($21M) Expenses 136 ($2.8M) Net assets 250 ($43M)2022 Revenue 704 ($32M) Expenses 908 ($19M) Net assets 293 ($51M)2023 Revenue 389 ($17M) Expenses 222 ($4.6M) Net assets 382 ($66M)2024 Revenue 568 ($25M) Expenses 280 ($5.8M) Net assets 520 ($90M)
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Revenue (568)Expenses (280)Net assets (520)

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 $71M to $95M (+33%).

$18M
$20M
$24M
$28M
$47M
$54M
$71M
$95M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.4M
’17
$3.0M
’18
$2.5M
’19
$3.1M
’20
$18M
’21
$13M
’22
$13M
’23
$20M
’24
40
months of
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.

Chief executive

Darci Schields

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1312111212101012
Joined·+1+2+1+0+1+0+3
No longer listed·2300301
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $80k → $2.9M.

8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY 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.

Where its funders are

93% of GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.2M that is directly attributable, 82% of it comes from Kansas funders.

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KS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’20
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’22
’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

03Its place in the field
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

59% of spending goes to programs.

Program 59%Management 35%Fundraising 5%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

69%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 6 related entities

  • Grow Gove County Investments LLC · disregarded
  • Gnwkcf Land LLC · disregarded
  • Gnwkcf B & L LLC · disregarded
  • Sccf Properties LLC · disregarded
  • Bird City Century II Development Foundation · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,580,807 to it, the largest being Greater Salina Community Foundation ($28,065,213). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $31,580,807 in grants to GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
Greater Salina Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $28,065,213 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY 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 17 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