Kansas · Nonprofit
HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION
HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,000 to it, the largest being Patterson Family Foundation ($157,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year. HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE 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 programHIGH PLAINS HERITAGE 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
$9k
Recipients
1
Contributions on record
$163k
Donors on record
2
Payments out are 0.06x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Patterson Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- South Central Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAYshared funders
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.
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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $153k → $5k.
From the IRS filings of HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE 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
HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Patterson Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchMO · backs 50 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- South Central Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchKS · backs 4 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- SEWARD COUNTY UNITED FUND dba SEWARD COUNTY UNITED WAYshared fundersKS · backs 9 organizations that share your funders
- Humanities Kansas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barton P & Mary D Cohen Charitable 2portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beach-Edwards Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dane G Hansen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Golden Belt Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edgar & Frances Reynolds Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emporia Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johnson-Wissing Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Trusler Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,000 to it, the largest being Patterson Family Foundation ($157,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year. HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE 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 HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $163,000 in grants to HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- Patterson Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $157,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGH PLAINS HERITAGE 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 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing