Kansas · Nonprofit
OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,478,346 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,008,449). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What Olathe Public Schools Foundation does
Mission
Connecting financial and volunteer resources to the olathe district schools to recognize and enhance educational excellence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Classroom grants: olathe students benefit when their teachers apply for opsf classroom grants. Their innovative ideas pave the way for learning excellence. Teachers identify ways they can help students learn and grow including projects utilizing diverse and dual-language books, materials to support hands-on science and engineering concepts, access to new visual arts materials, tools for students to conduct dna analysis and more.
$661,126 spentof which $661,126 as grants62% of program spendingStudent need: with 29% of students in olathe living at or below the poverty line, the Olathe Public Schools Foundation focuses significant efforts on supporting their unique needs. Through the following funds, the opsf ensures olathe every student has what they need to be in class ready to learn: student health emergency fund, wimmer student care fund, school supply program, homeless outreach fund, families in need (meals) fund, braden robertson student mental health fund, backsnack food program (weekend meals), muffin fund (school break meals); and college now (credit earned while still in high school) scholarships through the a.l.l. Fund.
$202,932 spentof which $93,267 as grants19% of program spendingCollege scholarships: the opsf facilitates the awarding of 125 named scholarships to graduating olathe senior students. The sources of funds for these scholarships run the gamut from endowed funds from estate gifts to annual support donations from alumni groups and grateful families.
$182,771 spentof which $182,771 as grants17% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$20,563 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,067,392.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.8M to $5.8M (+21%).
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.
94% of OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’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. 2 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
Cindy Vonfeldt
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell $303k → $139k.
13 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 82% · 2019 65% · 2020 54% · 2021 53% · 2022 33% · 2023 43% — 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
52% of OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
57% of OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Olathe Public Schools · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,478,346 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($1,008,449). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $2,478,346 in grants to OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,008,449 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLATHE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 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 42 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