Kansas · Nonprofit
KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE
KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE (Kansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,308,125 to it, the largest being AMERICA WORKS USA ($16,671,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $420k
What Kansas Values Institute does
Mission
To promote traditional kansas values through research and analysis and information projects that reach the public and opinion leaders.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Public education and advocacy-the institute undertook several issue advocacy and public education projects in 2024. The methods used for reaching opinion leaders and the public included grassroots outreach, targeted issue awareness efforts, social media and work with print/broadcast media. Some of the policy topics covered included the need for medicaid expansion and the continued impact to local communities and hospitals, a strong public education system and the importance of the merit selection system for ensuring fair and impartial courts. The organization also addressed a number of public fiscal issues, including: responsible tax policy, keeping jobs in kansas and the need for responsible budgeting. The total expenses allocable for these activities were approximately $2,300,616. There was no revenue associated with these activities.
$2,300,616 spent89% of program spendingResearch-the institute undertook limited research and public opinion polling on the publics attitute toward a number of public interest issues such as: the need for increased education funding, the state of kansas economy and the economic impact of specific budget and tax policies on kansans. The organization also researched the importance of infrastructure investment for roads and bridges, the importance of the merit selection system for ensuring fair and impartial courts and the need for medicaid expansion and how it impacts local communities and hospitals. The research supported the public education and advocacy activities noted above. The total expenses allocable for the research activities were approximately $270,140. There was no revenue associated with these activities.
$270,140 spent11% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,570,756.
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 2019 to 2020, from $273k to $919k (+237%).
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.
100% of KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% 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.
Board chair
Dan Watkins
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $50k → $14M.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 VALUES INSTITUTE’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 VALUES INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 VALUES INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 64% · 2019 58% · 2020 57% · 2021 55% · 2022 78% · 2023 97% — 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
29% of KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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 VALUES INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Kansas, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M 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 VALUES INSTITUTE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE: 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 VALUES INSTITUTE?
- KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE (Kansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,308,125 to it, the largest being AMERICA WORKS USA ($16,671,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $20,308,125 in grants to KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE?
- AMERICA WORKS USA is the largest funder on record, with $16,671,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like KANSAS VALUES INSTITUTE 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 19 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