Kansas · Nonprofit
Kansas Leadership Center
Kansas Leadership Center (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,508,938 to it, the largest being Kansas Health Foundation ($21,910,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $9.2M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $13M
What Kansas Leadership Center does
Mission
To transform civic life in kansas and beyond by creating a culture where everyday people exercise leadership and engage others to make progress on their toughest challenges.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Civic leadership - to strengthen the civic culture of kansas so that everyday people are better equipped to progress the common challenges they face. Kansas Leadership Center (klc) hosts regular discussions on civic leadership challenges and encourages kansans to take active part in civic life. Klc's civic engagement work has resulted in numerous partnerships with organizations and coalitions who seek assistance in the creation of trustworthy and inclusive processes for engaging communities around tough civic issues and the distribution of empowering civic information to specific audiences within the community. Additionally, this curriculum is taught to organizations, teams and individuals through a three-program sequence called the klc path. Klc provides development grants to civically oriented organizations in kansas, partners with local leadership programs in kansas and offers customized trainings for organizations and their employees.
$2,920,018 spent$1,449,708 earned by the program62% of program spendingKnowledge transfer - klc press's growing catalog features 11 leadership books, including comienza contigo, its first book in spanish, and when everyone leads, from best-selling business publisher bard press. The journal, a nationally recognized, award-winning magazine, highlights civic leadership issues in kansas and beyond through in-depth reporting, investigative journalism and innovative visual content additionally, third floor research is an applied research center operated through a partnership between the Kansas Leadership Center and kansas state university's staley school of leadership studies. Research focuses on the impact of leadership training and contributes to global learnings in the field of leadership and adaptive change processes. Research findings address individual development, organizational impact, and community capacity.
$965,967 spent$86,552 earned by the program21% of program spendingImpact and development - to grow klc's internal measurement, evaluation, research and learning capabilties in order to demonstrate impact within organizations and communities. Additionally, to focus internally with issues of inclusion and racial equity. Lastly, to grow klc's communications capabilities in terms of messaging and interpersonal connections with organizational and community stakeholders that develop long lasting partnerships.
$820,380 spent$1,800 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,706,365.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.3M to $16M (+210%).
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: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of Kansas Leadership Center’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Chief executive
Valencia Monk- Morgan
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100k → $650k.
2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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: $1.1M from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Kansas Leadership Center raised.
From the IRS filings of Kansas Leadership Center’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 Leadership Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Leadership Center.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
95% of Kansas Leadership Center's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $323k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 Leadership Center runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,761 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,761 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Kansas Leadership Center
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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Kansas Leadership Center: 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 Leadership Center?
- Kansas Leadership Center (Kansas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,508,938 to it, the largest being Kansas Health Foundation ($21,910,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Kansas Leadership Center have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $23,508,938 in grants to Kansas Leadership Center, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Kansas Leadership Center?
- Kansas Health Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $21,910,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Kansas Leadership Center 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 8 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