Kansas · Nonprofit
NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE
NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,495 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $80k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $21k
- Net assets
- $196k
What Northwest Kansas Foundation for Hope does
Mission
The organization is organized exclusively for charitable purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3). The corporation shall award grants to help offset expenses for cancer patients in the nine county area of northwest kansas - cheyenne, decatur, gove, logan, rawlins, sheridan, sherman, thomas and wallace counties. All funds, whether income or principal, and whether acquired by gift or contribution or otherwise, shall be devoted to said purpose.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
It is the foundation's goal to help offset patient expenses for local families afflicted with cancer. Northwest Kansas Foundation for Hope supports families in cheyenne, decatur, gove, logan, rawlins, sheridan, sherman, thomas and wallace counties.
$75,464 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $75,464.
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 $53k to $108k (+105%).
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.
90% of NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $83 → $10k.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% 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 NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE’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
NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
93% 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 NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
93% of NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Kansas, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE
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.
Public support
54%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE?
- NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE (Kansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,495 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($10,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $21,495 in grants to NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTHWEST KANSAS FOUNDATION FOR HOPE 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 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