Community Foundation

DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is a Community Foundation headquartered in LAWRENCE, KS. Financial data from the 2024 filing: $21.1M revenue, $11.5M expenses, $117.3M total assets. 27 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $9.1M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 481209687 LAWRENCE, KS Community Foundations NTEE: T31 Latest filing: 2024
Total Revenue$21.1M
Total Expenses$11.5M
Total Assets$117.3M
Grant Records27
Funding Total$9.1M
Filing Years2019–2024

Mission

TO ENRICH THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE COMMUNITIES OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS BY BUILDING PHILANTHROPIC RESOURCES AND RELATIONSHIPS, PROVIDING ATTRACTIVE OPTIONS FOR DONORS TO MAKE PHILANTHROPIC CONTRIBUTIONS, AND BEING A CATALYST FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE LIVES OF THE CITIZENS.

Where $100 goes at Douglas County Community Foundation

How Douglas County Community Foundation divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 7 years.

$97 Programs the work itself
$3 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $97 for programs

$97
Grants from the foundation provide additional funding for a wide variety of douglas county non-profit organizations
All program spending
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2024. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Sample Grants Received

2025
SUPPORT FOR THE COMMUNITY SERVED BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
$9,658
2024
SUPPORT FOR THE COMMUNITY SERVED BY THE DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.
$7,417,018
2024
PUBLIC, SOCIETAL BENEFIT
$113,027
2024
For grant recipient's exempt purposes
$18,985
2024
Tribal Health Summit
$16,000

Showing up to 5 of 27 total records — full history available with membership.

Officers & Directors

DIRECTOR Barb Heeb
DIRECTOR Becki Dick
DIRECTOR Bob Fairchild
EXECUTIVE DI Chip Blaser
DIRECTOR Cindy Maude
DIRECTOR Dan Simons

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

General Support
$8,759,391 16 grants
Health & Medicine
$146,000 4 grants
Arts & Culture
$83,250 4 grants
Economic Development
$81,314 2 grants
Unspecified
$26,000 1 grant

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2024 $21.1M $11.5M $117.3M
2023 $21.3M $8.7M $100.7M
2022 $9.9M $5.6M $79.3M
2020 $8.6M $4.9M $70.8M
2019 $10.1M $5.8M $63.3M

Between 2019 and 2024, reported annual revenue grew from $10.1M to $21.1M (+109%), with total assets most recently reported at $117.3M.

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