Kansas · Nonprofit
MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION
MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,626 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($167,826). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $21M
What Meadowlark Hills Foundation does
Mission
The Meadowlark Hills Foundation is organized for the inviolable charitable purposes of: soliciting, receiving, acquiring, holding, maintaining, investing and reinvesting money and/or other property, and from time to time disbursing the same and/or income therefrom to, or for the benefit of, manhattan retirement foundation, inc. To be used exclusively for the charitable purposes of manhattan retirement foundation, inc. Also, it assists in the financing of the facility in furtherance of the organization's charitable purposes and missions.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A not-for-profit charitable organization, the foundation is dedicated to the continued growth and excellence of meadowlark, by providing opportunities for private giving to further the person-centered mission of meadowlark hills retirement community. Through the generosity of our residents, their loved ones, and members of the local community, meadowlark creates the irreplaceable feeling of home. These supporters, like us, feel that this supportive, welcoming environment is one of the utmost priorities for our community and our future.the foundation's work allows the meadowlark hills campus to keep up with changing technologies and modern amenities.
$524,962 spentof which $524,962 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $524,962.
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 $14M to $18M (+25%).
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.
33% of MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION’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 9 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
Lonnie Baker
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Gavin Schmidt
Member / chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $25k → $7k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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: $773k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Greater Manhattan Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION’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
MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 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
92% of MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $17k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $193k 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
MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION 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 MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Manhattan Retirement Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION?
- MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,626 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($167,826). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $209,626 in grants to MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $167,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEADOWLARK HILLS FOUNDATION 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 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