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Kansas Association of Community Foundations
Kansas Association of Community Foundations (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,275,080 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($27,986,554). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Kansas Association of Community Foundations does
Mission
The mission of the Kansas Association of Community Foundations is to leverage the resources of community foundations in the State of Kansas to strengthen and promote community philanthropy and to inspire action that will improve the quality of life in Kansas communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National Conference - The Association hosted a national conference for growing community foundations. Over 425 participants from 34 states, representing over 160 community foundations learned from over 70 speakers on growing community foundations, leadership, finance, administration, technology, public policy and advocacy. Sessions are recorded and made available in our on-line resource library
$236,999 spent$175,724 earned by the program45% of program spendingExpress Training - the Association operates Express Training which is a 15-module on-line series on starting and growing community foundations including asset development, grant program design, fiduciary and leadership. During 2025, the program helped 46 community foundations, including 18 KACF members.
$14,992 spent$24,700 earned by the program3% of program spendingAdministration of grants on behalf of the Patterson Family Foundation for the benefit of community foundations in Kansas.Conducted a statewide survey of member foundations to collect data on staff compensation and benefits. The survey gathered salary and benefit information by staff position and also analyzed results by the asset size of each participating community foundation. The findings provide valuable benchmarking data to help foundations make informed decisions related to staffing, retention, and organizational planning.This program category also includes other general programs not specifically listed above.
$276,765 spent$100,050 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $528,756.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $2.6M to $9.5M (+269%).
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.
36% of Kansas Association of Community Foundations’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Chief executive
Christy Tustin
Executive Director
Board chair
Eric Hozempa
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $75k → $9.5M.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 Kansas Association of Community Foundations’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
Kansas Association of Community Foundations leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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: 2020 67% · 2021 56% · 2022 98% · 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
33% of Kansas Association of Community Foundations's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 60% 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
Kansas Association of Community Foundations draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Kansas Association of Community Foundations runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Kansas Association of Community Foundations
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kansas Association of Community Foundations: 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 Kansas Association of Community Foundations?
- Kansas Association of Community Foundations (Kansas) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,275,080 to it, the largest being THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($27,986,554). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kansas Association of Community Foundations have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $31,275,080 in grants to Kansas Association of Community Foundations, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kansas Association of Community Foundations?
- THE PATTERSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $27,986,554 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kansas Association of Community Foundations 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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