GRAND TOTAL WKCF & AFFILIATE GRANTS 2023 - $1,734,275.52

Total WKCF Grants - $1,705,543.22

Urgent Needs Fund Grants ($16,985.75)

• Catholic Charities of SW KS
• Little Leaders of GCK
• Scott County Historical Society
• Turning Point Church of the Nazarene
• Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center

Operating Grants ($49,552.16)

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fi. & Ke. Counties
• Core Community Ulysses
• Grace Place Pregnancy Care Center
• Grow & Learn Childcare Center
• Kansas Children's Service League
• High Plains Public Radio
• Magic's HOPE
• Miles of Smiles
• Real Men Real Leaders
• Silver Sage Renaissance Festival
• The Community, Inc.
• Stepping Stone Shelter
• Tumbleweed Festival

1st Cycle (March) Grants ($42,940)

• Families Together
• Finney County Humane Society
• Real Men Real Leaders
• Catholic Charities
• Grace Place Pregnancy Care Center
• USD #507, Satanta
• St. Francis Family Services
• Garden City Arts
• Great Plains MakerSpace
• Ogallala Commons
• Western Kansas Community Foundation

2nd Cycle (July) Grants ($76,652.69)

• American Red Cross
• Atletico Liberal Futbol Club
• City of Montezuma
• Community Day Care Center
• Core Community Ulysses
• Finney County Historical Society
• Finney County Public Library
• GCCC Endowment Association
• Humanities Kansas
• Kansas Children's Service League
• Kansas Health Science Center
• Smoky Hills Public TV
• St. Catherine Hospice
• Turning Point Church of the Nazarene
• Wichita County Schools

3rd Cycle (November) Grants ($51,825.30)

• Chains Break
• Core Community Meade County
• Finney County Health Department
• Fowler Arts Council
• Greeley County Public Library
• Hamilton County Library
• Kismet Public Library Foundation
• Leoti EMS
• Miles of Smiles
• Noah's Ark Preschool
• Satanta Area Arts Council
• Silver Sage Renaissance Festival
• South Church of God
• SparkWheel
• Special Olympics Kansas
• Stepping Stone Shelter
• Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center

Christmas Grants ($22,500)

• Cimarron City Library
• Copeland Public Library
• Dudley Township Library
• Finney County Public Library
• Friends of Grant County Library
• Greeley County Public LIbrary
• Hamilton County Library
• Haskell Township Library
• Ingalls Public Library
• Kearny County Library
• Kismet Public Library Foundation
• Lane County Library
• Liberal Memorial Library
• Meade county Library
• Montezuma Township Library
• Morton County Library
• Plains Community Library
• Scott County Library
• Stanton County Public Library
• Stevens County Library
• Wichita County Library
• Dominican Sisters Minstry of Presence

MatchDay Grants ($703,932.38)

• Benincasa House
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fi. & Ke. Counties
• Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas
• Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation
• Emmaus House
• Family Crisis Services
• Finney County 4-H Foundation
• Finney County Historical Society
• Finney County Humane Society
• Finney County Preservation Alliance
• Finney County Public Library
• Finney County United Way
• Friends of Cimarron City Library
• Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo
• Garden City Arts
• Garden City Community College Endowment Assoc.
• Garden City Downtown Vision
• Garden City Family YMCA
• GC Community Mexican Fiesta
• Genesis Family Health
• Great Plains MakerSpace
• High Plains Public Radio
• Humanities Kansas
• Kansas Children's Service League
• Kansas Oral History Project
• Leave a Legacy Foundation
• Little Leaders of GCK
• Magic's HOPE 
• Miles of Smiles
• Mosaic
• Real Men Real Leaders
• Russell Child Development Center
• Shepherd of the Plains Foundation
• Special Olympics Kansas
• Spirit of the Plains, CASA
• St. Catherine Hospital Development Foundation
• The Community Inc.
• Tumbleweed Festival

Donor Advised Fund Grants ($393,600)

Clifford Family Fund

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Ed & Nelda Lewis Fund

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Eltrude Elliot Hall Fund

• Haskell Township Library
• Pride of LIfe

Erdene Corley Fund

• The distribution from this fund was directed to the pool of funds used for the Foundation's Community Grants and is represented in the cycle grant totals above.

Esther & Webb Smith-Bennett Fund

• Oma's Country Critters Sanctuary
• Wichita Fellowship Club

Finney County Farm Bureau Association - Donor Advised Fund

• West Plains Extension

Gary & Carolyn Salyer Fund

• Finney County Humane Society

Gerald & Phyllis Greene Fund

• KSU Foundation

Henry & Nellie Hall Fund

• Garden City Community College Endowment Association
• Garden City Family YMCA
• Spirit of the Plains, CASA
• Finney County Historical Society

Herman & Marjorie Cooper Fund

• Garden City Arts

James & Christina Becker Fund

• Meals on Wheels

Kent & Carol Nanninga Fund

• St. Dominic School
• Fiends of Lee Richardson Zoo
• Finney County Humane Society
• Meals on Wheels 

Lee Construction Fund

• Genesis Family Health
• Emmaus House

Luther & Ardis Fry Donor Advised Fund

• Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo
• Finney County Historical Society
• Finney county Humane society
• Benincasa
• Meals on Wheels
• High Plains Public Radio
• Miles of Smiles
• Mosaic
• Russell Child Development Center
• Stauth Memorial Museum

Matha Sherman Fund

• Garden City Piano Teacher's League
• Southwest Kansas Community Concerts

Matt Anderson Memorial Fund

• St. Dominic Catholic Church

Mildred Henselman Fund

• Community Congregational Church
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Finney County
• Emmaus House
• Finney County United Way
• Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo
• Finney County Senior Center
• Garden City Community College Endowment Association
• Salvation Army
• Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland

Phil & Sheryl Dick Fund

• Garden City Arts

Tony Englert Memorial Fund

• The Land Institute
• National Alliance of Mental Illness, KS

Unruh Family Fund

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Agency Fund Grants ($20,200)

Community Day Care Center Fund

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Emmaus House Fund

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Family Crisis Services Fund

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Finney County Community Health Coalition Fund

• Live Well Finney County

Finney County Historical Society Fund

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Finney County Humane Society Fund

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Finney County Public Library Fund

• Finney County Public Library

Finney County United Way Fund

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Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo Fund 

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Garden City Arts Fund

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Garden City Noon Lions Club Fund

• Garden City Noon Lions Club

Garden City Rotary Club Fund

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Garden City Public Schools Permanent Fund

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High Plains Public Radio

• High Plains Public Radio

Leadership Garden City Fund

• Leadership Garden City

Leave a Legacy Foundation

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Magic's HOPE Fund

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Miles of Smiles

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Real Men Real Leaders Fund

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Rotary Club of Garden City Fund

• Rotary Club of Garden City

Russell Child Development Center Fund

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Satanta Lions Club Fund

• Satanta Lions Club

Shepherd of the Plains Foundation Fund

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Spirit of the Plains, CASA Fund

• Spirit of the Plains, CASA

Sublette Public School Fund

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Designated Fund Grants ($100,445)

Anne Dew Brown Fund

• Wasatch Academy
• Lewis & Clark College
• Earlham College
• Friends Academy
• First Presbyterian Church
• Presbyterian Church, Garden City

Benincasa House Fund

• Benincasa 

Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center Fund

• Bernadine Sitts Intermediate Center

Berniece Fry Fund

• First United Methodist Church
• Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo
• Garden City Community College Endowment
• St. Catherine Hospital Development Foundation

Carl & Willynda Holmes Fund

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Cecil & Frances O'Brate Fund

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Dan & Chris Fankhauser Fund

• Spirit of the Plains, CASA

Dorothy M. and Louise Wampler - Finney County Public Library Fund

• Finney County Public Library

Dr. Stephen Meyers Fund

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Ellen H. Oswalt Fund

• Finney County Public Library

Garden City Family YMCA Fund

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Garden City Catholic Schools Alumni & Friends

• Garden City Catholic Schools

Jeanne B. Corley Hospice Fund

• St. Catherine Hospital Hospice

KHF Operating Fund

• La Communidad

Lawrence F. Zant and Marjorie R. Williams Memorial Fund

• Finney County Humane Society

Mosaic in Garden City

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Otis & Mary Lee Molz Fund

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Pat & Gene LeClerc Fund

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Patsy Ruddick Memorial Fund

• Finney County Historical Society
• Garden City Community College Endowment Association
• First United Methodist Church
• Emmaus House
• Finney County Public Library

Robert Whippo Memorial Fund

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Women of Purpose Fund

• Magic's HOPE
• Silver Sage Renissance Festival

 

Field of Interest Fund Grants

* Multiple Field of Interest Funds assist with the quarterly Community Grants which are included in the totals above, those funds are:

• Jeanne Beach Corley Fund for Arts and Culture
• Carl & Carolyn Myers Fund for Health
• Kansas Health Foundation Public Health Fund
• Dr. Max & Charlene Teare Fund for Health and Human Services
• Mary Lou Spanier Fund for Health
• WKCF Public Health Fund
• Lee and Joyce Stapleton Fund for Children's Programs
• Our Children, Our Future Fund for Children's Programs
• GC Sunrisers Kiwanis Fund for Education 
• Orville & Pauline Patterson Fund for Education
• Ralph & Marilyn Germann Fund for Education
• Kansas Health Foundation - Children's Fund
• Kansas Health Foundation - Haskell County Fund
• Haskell County Community Fund

 

Scholarship Funds ($36,150)

Anna & May Rosel Scholarship Fund

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Anne Campbell Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Andrea Aguilar

Bernadine Sitts Scholarship Fund

• Avery Meng
• Kaitlin Saldana
• Ryann Warren

Bob Krug Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Logan Morren

Bud Ward Family Scholarship Fund

• Lizabeth Fellhoelter
• Daniel Williams

Cecil & Francis O'Brate Scholarship Fund

• Taylor Davis
• William Ast
• Bryce Birkholz
• Ryder Fisher
• Abby Gillen
• Abigail Lightner
• Brenden Ellis
• Hayden Cure
• James Dwyre
• Crystal Casas
• Abigail MacWhinnie

Charles Helfrich Memorial Scholarship Fund

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Chase Mitchel Webber Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Clarysa Webber

D & L Hewes Scholarship Fund

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Duane Nichols Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Paige Jones

Erdene Corley Scholarship Fund

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Garden City Wrestling Alumni Scholarship Fund

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Jan McLeland Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Sean Wagner

Katherine C. Jones Scholarship #1

• Paige Jones

Katherine C. Jones Scholarship #2 - Continuing Education

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K.O. & Ruth Powell Scholarship Fund

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Mallory Worf Hernandez Memorial Fund

• Anna Lobmeyer
• Kathy Vo

Tanner Dean Born Memorial Fund

• Paige Jones

Tonya Wright Memorial Fund

• Sean Wagner

Wilmer "Bill" & Dorthea Kline Educational Fund

• Kyle Doll
• Mia Wendt
• Cole Lehman

Non-Permanent Fund Grants ($190,759.94)

Buffalo Living Legacy 

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Cecil & Frances O'Brate Non-Permanent / Scholarship Fund

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O'Brate Scholarships

• Abigail MacWhinnie
• Sydney Minet
• Cole Teeter
• Samantha Wendel

Conestoga Energy Partners, LLC Scholarship Fund

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Earl & Dora Fry Fund

• University of Kansas Endowment Association

Eatinger Family Fund

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Fry Family Trust Fund

• High Plains Public Radio

GC Catholic Schools Alumni & Friends Association Fund

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Garden City High School Non-Permanent Fund

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Garden City Public Schools Foundation, Non-Permanent Fund

• USD #457 - Garden City Public Schools

Garret Doll Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Anahi Cervantes

Hero In You Fund

• Finney County United Way

Law Enforcement Explorers Program Fund

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Norbert "Kevin" Irsik Scholarship Fund

• Ciera Depenbusch
• Janelyn Nichols
• Estephania Anaya-Lopez
• Crystal Casas
• Anahi Cervantes

Ron Peek Memorial Scholarship Fund

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USD #216, Deerfield Scholarship Fund

• Amanda Borjas
• Erica Fuentes
• Shaylie Hill
• Brenda Houghton
• Addisyn Huband
• Brayden Huband
• Leslie Ramirez
• Paulina Salas
• Audrey Musil
• Alyssa Smith

Women of Purpose Non-Permanent Fund

• Kearny County Senior Center
• Finnup Foundation

WKCF Temporary Holding Fund

• The Community, Inc.
• Salvation Army
• Great Plains MakerSpace

Total Affiliate Grants ($)

Wichita County Community Foundation ($28,732.30)

Community Grant Awards ($15,212.30)

• Grow & Learn Childcare Center
• KSRE
• Wichita County Schools
• The Community Thrift Shoppe

Donor Advised Funds ($470)

Al Droste Memorial Fund

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Community First Fund

• Wichita County Community Foundation

Designated Funds ($8,350)

City of Leoti Fund

• City of Leoti

Herndon Trust #1 Fund

• Christ Covenant Youth - GAP

Joann's Fund

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Wichita County 4-H & Fair Fund

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Wichita County Economic Development Fund

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Wichita County Health Center Fund

• Wichita County Health Center

Wichita County Municipal Golf Course

• Wichita County Municipal Golf Course

Agency Funds ($)

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Field of Interest Funds ($)

Heart Strings to Purse Strings Fund

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* Multiple Field of Interest Funds assist with the WCCF Community Grants which are included in the totals above, those funds are:

Happy One of Leoti, KHF Wichita County Health Fund, and the Whole Health Fund

 

Scholarship Funds ($1,500)

Herndon Trust #2 Scholarship Fund

• Elise Whalen

Jim & Judy Biel Memorial Fund

• Gretchen Ridder

WCCF Scholarship Fund

• Sheldon Whalen

Non-Permanent Funds ($3,200)

Heart Strings to Purse Strings Fund

• Wichita County Economic Development
• Wichita County Parks & Rec

Tyler M. Graff Memorial Park Fund

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WCCF Non-Permanent Operating Fund

• Jim & Judy Biel Memorial
• Wichita County Economic Development

Wichita County Track Fund

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(Page updated on 4/11/25)