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HUMANITIES KANSAS INC

HUMANITIES KANSAS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,948 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($356,143). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.7M
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$534k
Net assets
$1.5M
5/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Humanities Kansas Inc does

Mission

Humanities kansas connects kansans with stories, ideas, and each other to strengthen our communities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Competitive regrant programhumanities kansas, inc. Provides humanities grants to kansas non-profits that fund public programming for lectures, symposia, exhibitions and documentary and short films. Heritage grants are awarded for projects that preserve local history through research, oral histories, the digitization of photos and records, and for the care of collections.

    $363,426 spentof which $173,598 as grants$1,045 earned by the program
    59% of program spending
  2. Talk - talk about literature in kansastalk is comprised of several series of reading and discussion programs on topics of popular interest. These series of 3-4 books are developed around a central theme with the books providing insight into different perspectives on the topic. Grant awards are made to libraries and senior centers to cover the cost of the honorarium and travel of each scholar/discussion leader. The books for the series are delivered to the venue through a grant provided to the northwest kansas library system.

    $41,503 spentof which $19,825 as grants
    7% of program spending
  3. Speakers bureauspeakers bureau awards are provided for one hour programs on kansas, american and world history, as well as other topics of local or current interest. Each presentation is followed by discussion led by the scholar. The humanities kansas provides funding to museums, libraries, and non-profit organizations to cover the cost of the honorarium and travel of the scholar.

    $212,563 spentof which $101,535 as grants
    34% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $617,492.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($911k) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($834k)2019 Revenue 116 ($1.1M) Expenses 98 ($985k) Net assets 112 ($931k)2020 Revenue 169 ($1.5M) Expenses 141 ($1.4M) Net assets 126 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 179 ($1.6M) Expenses 175 ($1.8M) Net assets 126 ($1.1M)2022 Revenue 112 ($1.0M) Expenses 101 ($1.0M) Net assets 123 ($1.0M)2023 Revenue 137 ($1.2M) Expenses 114 ($1.1M) Net assets 139 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 138 ($1.3M) Expenses 129 ($1.3M) Net assets 145 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 187 ($1.7M) Expenses 105 ($1.1M) Net assets 182 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (187)Expenses (105)Net assets (182)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.3M to $1.5M (+16%).

$965k
$1.1M
$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$1.5M
$1.6M
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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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 87% · 2019 86% · 2020 93% · 2021 92% · 2022 89% · 2023 91% · 2024 88% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

76% of HUMANITIES KANSAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,395 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$89k
’18
$69k
’19
$125k
’20
−$126k
’21
$16k
’22
$109k
’23
−$34k
’24
$653k
’25
15
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

Julie Mulvihill

Executive director

Board chair

Sheila Philip

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1723201819232020
Joined·+10+3+3+4+7+0+3
No longer listed·4653333
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $37k → $61k.

3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 HUMANITIES KANSAS 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

HUMANITIES KANSAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

88% 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 HUMANITIES KANSAS INC.

67%
largest funder
81%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2019 63% · 2020 71% · 2021 78% · 2022 75% · 2023 58% — 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

43% of HUMANITIES KANSAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

HUMANITIES KANSAS INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 6 states in all.

NY
UT
MO
VA
KS
TX

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

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’22
’23
Kansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $44k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HUMANITIES KANSAS INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin38% · top quartile
Months of reserve14.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding HUMANITIES KANSAS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.8M on record.

Federal$8.8M
grants $8.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$8.8M

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.

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05Profile & 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 30%Fundraising 11%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds HUMANITIES KANSAS INC?
HUMANITIES KANSAS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,948 to it, the largest being FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS ($356,143). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HUMANITIES KANSAS INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $533,948 in grants to HUMANITIES KANSAS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HUMANITIES KANSAS INC?
FEDERATION OF STATE HUMANITIES COUNCILS is the largest funder on record, with $356,143 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HUMANITIES KANSAS 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 12 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