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Stormont-Vail Foundation

Topeka, KS · EIN 48-0980926. Reported 97 grants totalling $4,678,952 to 46 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

46organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$4,678,952granted, 2020-2024
54%of grantees funded again the next year
73%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Stormont-Vail Foundation, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E22I) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 73% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 54% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $15,625; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $2,023,622. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
31 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
49 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
4 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant
$250,000 Or More
3 grants

26 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $1,345,760 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Stormont-Vail Healthcare IncTopeka, KS$3,414,228642024
Kansas Board of Regents ScholarshipsTopeka, KS$162,243332022
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka IncTopeka, KS$112,100552024
Midland Care Connection IncTopeka, KS$80,000332023
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas a CorporationEmporia, KS$67,000552024
Geary County Food Pantry IncJunction City, KS$50,000112023
Topeka North Outreach IncTopeka, KS$50,000442023
Washburn Institute of TechnologyTopeka, KS$42,836222022
Tha IncTopeka, KS$42,000442024
Race Against Breast Cancer IncTopeka, KS$40,250442023
Shawnee County Medical Society Foundation IncTopeka, KS$39,000552024
Stormont-Vail Healthcare AuxiliaryTopeka, KS$37,500332024
Marian Clinic Inc Dba Marian Dental Clinic Scl HealthTopeka, KS$34,500332022
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Ne Kansas IncTopeka, KS$33,680332022
The Young Women Christian Association of Topeka KansasTopeka, KS$31,000332023
University of KansasKansas City, KS$30,900332022
Astra Mental Health and Recovery IncTopeka, KS$30,000332023
Sunflower State Games IncTopeka, KS$26,300222021
Ckf Addiction Treatment IncSalina, KS$25,000112023
Harvesters-the Community Food NetworkKansas City, MO$25,000112021
Kaw Valley Public Access Defibrillator FoundationMeriden, KS$25,000112021
North Topeka Arts District IncTopeka, KS$23,375112021
Doorstep IncTopeka, KS$23,000112021
Tarc IncTopeka, KS$22,500332024
Boy Scouts of AmericaTopeka, KS$21,250332023
Community Resources Council of Shawnee County Kansas IncTopeka, KS$20,000222023
United Way of Kaw Valley IncTopeka, KS$17,500222024
Astra Mental Health and Recovery FoundationTopeka, KS$15,000112024
Junior Achievement of Kansas IncTopeka, KS$15,000112024
Pawnee Mental Health Service IncManhattan, KS$12,000222022
Kansas Childrens Service LeagueWichita, KS$10,000112021
Kansas Dental Charitable FoundationTopeka, KS$10,000112022
March of Dimes IncArlington, VA$10,000112023
Sheltered Living IncTopeka, KS$10,000112024
Topeka Rescue Mission IncTopeka, KS$10,000112021
Capper FoundationTopeka, KS$7,500112024
Parks for All FoundationTopeka, KS$7,500112020
The Topeka Public Schools FoundationTopeka, KS$5,500112023
Delta Phi Chapter Omega Psi Phi FraternityJunction City, KS$5,290112023
Boys & Girls Club of Manhattan IncManhattan, KS$5,000112020
Boys and Girls Club of TopekaTopeka, KS$5,000112020
Florence Crittenton Services of Topeka IncTopeka, KS$5,000112020
Friends of the Wamego Public LibraryWamego, KS$5,000112020
Shawnee County Suicide Prevention CoalitionTopeka, KS$5,000112020
Topeka Justice Unity and Ministry Project IncTopeka, KS$5,000112020
Topeka Lulac Multipurpose Senior Center IncTopeka, KS$5,000112020

22 of 46 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 23 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 30 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Human Services
9 orgs
Health Care
5 orgs
Mental Health
3 orgs
Housing & Shelter
2 orgs
Recreation & Sports
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Religion
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202023$270,500$5,900
202126$1,345,760$15,500
202217$476,119$10,000
202319$2,248,162$10,000
202412$338,411$10,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

99% of its giving went to organizations in Kansas. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

Kansas
$4.6M
Missouri
$25K
Virginia
$10K

Down to the city

Topeka, KS
$4.4M
Emporia, KS
$67K
Junction City, KS
$55K
Kansas City, KS
$31K
Salina, KS
$25K
Kansas City, MO
$25K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Topeka Community Foundation28 shared recipientsUnited Way of Kaw Valley Inc17 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc15 shared recipientsGlobal Impact12 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund10 shared recipientsLewis Humphreys Charitable Trust8 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Kansas.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Stormont-Vail Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 11 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 1 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1500 Sw 10TH Avenue, Topeka, KS, 66604.

EIN 48-0980926 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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