Kansas · Nonprofit
KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE
KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE (Kansas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,347,954 to it, the largest being Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation ($2,070,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $5.3M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Kansas Childrens Service League does
Mission
To protect and promote the well-being of children.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Early childhood education: in 1977, kcsl established its leadership as an expert in early childhood learning with the administration and management of head start in 10 western kansas counties (finney, grant, gray, haskell, kearny, seward, scott, stanton, stevens, and wichita). Our presence includes an array of early learning programs that includes head start, early head start, and kansas early head start. If kansans are to continue to prosper in the future, we need to make sure that all children have the opportunity to develop intellectually, socially, and emotionally. Current science emphasizes that brain development during the early years of life is particularly critical, creating the foundation upon which future growth depends. When young children experience prolonged stress, their early brain development is jeoparidized. However, early brain development thrives when parents, families, and communities nurture young children through loving care, interaction and stimulation. Kcsl head start and early head start provide comprehensive services in english, spanish and burmese to children and the families in these ten western kansas counties. Families with the highest risk are…
$6,442,193 spentof which $8,145 as grants$84,200 earned by the program39% of program spendingHealthy families: in 1996, kcsl began its healthy families services. In 2023, the program provided services to 809 kansas families across 45 kansas counties. Kcsl's healthy families services are nationally accredited by healthy families america (hfa). Program goals for healthy families include preventing child abuse and neglect; enhancing child health and development and promoting positive parenting. These goals are accomplished by initiating services prenatally or at birth to at-risk parents; using voluntary and positive outreach approaches in engagement of family service intensive home visitation focused on supporting the parent as well as supporting the parent-child interaction and child development; and utilizing only standardized and evidence-based tools to systematically evaluate program outcomes and effectiveness. Healthy families services can be provided until a child reaches age 5 or until they begin school.
$5,582,290 spentof which $54,748 as grants$612,265 earned by the program34% of program spendingParent support: these programs which consist of crisis nursery, kinship navigator, circle of parents, fatherhood, parent leadership and 1-800-children build a statewide array of services that are aimed at preventing child abuse and supporting families. Crisis nursery and kinship offer case management for families and caregivers and connect them to resources neded to improve parent and child functioning. Circle of parents, fatherhood and parent leadership offer education, support and leadership opportunities to caregivers to increase family functioning, increase social connections and increase knowlede of parenting nurturing and attachment skills. These programs in 2022 worked with 970 families and 2,155 children. The 1-800-children program offers a 24/7 helpline that is a nonjudgemental support to assist families in finding resources anywhere in the 105 counties in kansas. There were 1,078 calls made to the helpline by kansas residents in 2023.
$1,556,516 spentof which $41,287 as grants$1,006,367 earned by the program10% of program spendingOther various programs including adoptive services, juvenile intake and assessment, outpatient mental health, prevention services, and pass-through services.
$2,747,819 spentof which $6,702 as grants$554,294 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,328,818.
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 $10M to $11M (+10%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 66% · 2019 68% · 2020 70% · 2021 73% · 2022 82% · 2023 80% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $485k → $787k.
9 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.7M from 9 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest United Way of the Plains Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE raised.
From the IRS filings of KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 funders by total. 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 CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 39% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
31% 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 KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 48% · 2019 17% · 2020 44% · 2021 47% · 2022 37% · 2023 38% — 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
50% of KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
78% of KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $602k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 27 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $55.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$55.3M
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 KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Kcsl Foundation · exempt
- The Wichita Child Guidance Center Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE?
- KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE (Kansas) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,347,954 to it, the largest being Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation ($2,070,000). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $5,347,954 in grants to KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE?
- Mark & Bette Morris Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,070,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 53 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