Kansas · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Education in Kansas

Imperigo has identified 468 funders that made 4,041 grants totaling $707.6M to 359 education organizations in Kansas, with a median grant of $20K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Education Funding in Kansas

Total granted $707.6M
Funders 468
Grants 4,041
Organizations funded 359

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Midamerica Nazerene University Foundation
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $17.9M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$50.5M
2. Fundamental Literacy Foundation
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $12.7M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$14.3M
3. Greater Salina Community Foundation
77 grants to 22 organizations · largest $4.3M · through 2024 · 14.0% of their giving
$20.4M
4. Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $19.5M · through 2024 · 10.2% of their giving
$24.1M
5. Kansas Health Foundation
37 grants to 22 organizations · largest $6.0M · through 2024 · 16.4% of their giving
$10.7M
6. Foundation for Engineering at Kansas State University Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.7M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$8.5M
7. Rice County Community Foundation Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $7.9M · through 2020 · 78.8% of their giving
$7.9M
8. Kansas Wesleyan University Foundation
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.5M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$7.6M
9. Greater Kansas City Community Foundation
101 grants to 69 organizations · largest $24.8M · through 2024 · 3.1% of their giving
$49.3M
10. The Kansas University Endowment Association
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $20.3M · through 2024 · 3.1% of their giving
$45.8M
11. Douglas County Community Foundation
73 grants to 19 organizations · largest $1.8M · through 2024 · 23.8% of their giving
$6.8M
12. Greater Manhattan Community Foundation
105 grants to 26 organizations · largest $1.9M · through 2024 · 13.8% of their giving
$8.4M
13. Cray Medical Research Foundation
27 grants to 1 organization · largest $630K · through 2025 · 96.0% of their giving
$5.4M
14. Wichita Foundation
117 grants to 41 organizations · largest $462K · through 2024 · 15.7% of their giving
$5.6M
15. Marvin S Robinson Charitable Trust
14 grants to 4 organizations · largest $1.8M · through 2025 · 56.1% of their giving
$4.2M
16. Bethany College Trust
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $1.8M · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$3.7M
17. Donnelly College Real Estate Holdings
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $645K · through 2024 · 96.1% of their giving
$3.4M
18. Government Employees Health Association Inc
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $1.5M · through 2024 · 41.8% of their giving
$3.1M
19. Jack Goldstein Charitable Trust
6 grants to 2 organizations · largest $1.5M · through 2025 · 37.5% of their giving
$2.5M
20. Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City
10 grants to 2 organizations · largest $507K · through 2024 · 12.4% of their giving
$3.1M
21. 1998 Jack Goldstein Charitable Trust
10 grants to 3 organizations · largest $975K · through 2025 · 40.9% of their giving
$1.8M
22. Kansas Masonic Foundation Inc
11 grants to 3 organizations · largest $350K · through 2024 · 39.9% of their giving
$1.7M
23. Kansas Manufacturing Solutions Inc
8 grants to 2 organizations · largest $250K · through 2024 · 47.1% of their giving
$1.2M
24. Hutchinson Community Foundation
44 grants to 14 organizations · largest $693K · through 2024 · 8.6% of their giving
$2.6M
25. Western Kansas Community Foundation
21 grants to 7 organizations · largest $200K · through 2024 · 14.5% of their giving
$1.5M

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to education work in Kansas, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 20 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering education work, with an address in Kansas. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable education funding in Kansas, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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