GRAND TOTAL WKCF GRANTS 2025 - $2,437,248.30

 

Urgent Needs Fund Grants ($7,000)

• Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas
• Finney County Childcare and Early Learning Network

"Our Community, Our Future" Grants ($46,000)

• Lakin Community Empowerment Group
• Linger Gig Lab
• Youth Hangout

1st Cycle (March) Grants ($67,241.96)

• Artesian Valley Health Systems
• Atletico Futbol Club
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fi. & Ke. Counties
• City of Garden City
• Core Community Ulysses
• Dudley Township Library
• Finney County Childcare & Early Learning Network
• Finney County Preservation Alliance
• Fowler Public Library
• Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo
• Garden City Arts
• Grace Place Pregnancy Care Center
• Grant County Extension Council
• Great Plains MakerSpace
• Greeley County Historical Society
• Magic's HOPE
• Mosaic
• Pride of Life
• Red Dog Children's Museum
• Satanta Community Foundation
• Scott County Historical Society
• Scott County Rest Home
• Seward County Historical Society
• Southwest Kansas Community Concerts
• Stanton County Community Foundation
• The Baker Arts Center
• USD #102 - Cimarron Elementary
• Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center

2nd Cycle (July) Grants ($65,843.17)

• American Red Cross
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fi. & Ke. Counties
• City of Ingalls
• Finney County Historical Society
• Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo
• Garden City Parks & Recreation
• Gray County Recreation
• Heritage Christian Academy
• Kearny County Hospital
• Real Men Real Leaders
• Russell Child Development Center
• Southwest Kansas Health Transport
• SparkWheel
• The Community, Inc. 
• The Kansas Food Bank
• USD #102 - Cimarron High School
• USD #102 - Cimarron Preschool
• Wichita County Health Center

3rd Cycle (November) Grants ($117,787.77)

• Cimarron Animal Action Team
• City of Ciimarron
• City of Leoti
• Finney County Humane Society
• Great Plains MakerSpace
• Greeley County Health Services
• Grow & Learn Childcare Center
• Hickock/HPEC Playgroup
• HirePaths
• Kearny County Historical Society
• Meade County Community Foundation
• Miles of Smiles
• Mosaic
• Red Dog Children's Museum
• Satanta Area Arts Council
• Scott County Historical Society
• Special Olympics KS
• Stevens County Housing Authority
• Syracuse Christian Academy
• The Stepping Stone Shelter
• Turning Point Church of the Nazarene
• Unified School Admin Leaders KS
• Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center
• YMCA of Southwest KS

Christmas Grants ($24,500)

• Beam Center
• Community Hall Senior Center
• Dominican Sisters - Ministry of Presence
• Elkhart Senior Center
• Finney County Senior Center
• Fowler Senior Citizens Inc.
• Grant County Senior Center
• Gray County Over 50 Center
• Hamilton County VIPS
• Hugoton Senior Center
• Kearny County Senior Center
• Liberal Senior Center
• Melven O. Kuder Senior Center
• Moscow Senior Citizen Center
• Pride of Life
• Rolla Senior Citizen Center
• Satanta Happy Agers
• Scott County VIPS
• Stanton County Senior Center
• The JOY Center
• Wichita County Senior Center
• Young at Heart

MatchDay Grants ($992,047.25)

• ABC Pregnancy Care Center
• Baker Arts Center
• Benincasa House
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fi. & Ke. Counties
• Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas
• Cerebral Palsy Research Foundation
• Chains Break
• 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 Lee Richardson Zoo
• Friends of Cimarron City Library
• Garden City Arts
• Garden City Community College Endowment Association
• Garden City Community Mexican Fiesta
• Garden City Downtown Vision
• Garden City Rotary Club
• Genesis Family Health
• Gray County Over 50 Center
• Great Plains MakerSpace
• High Plains Public Radio
• Humanities Kansas
• Kansas Children's Service League
• Kansas Legal Services
• Kansas Oral History Project
• Lakeside Camp
• Leave a Legacy Foundation
• Linger Gig Lab
• Little Leaders 
• Miles of Smiles
• Mosaic
• Project Hope
• Real Men Real Leaders
• Red Dog Children's Museum
• Russell Child Development Center
• Satanta Lions Club
• Shepherd of the Plains Foundation
• Special Olympics Kansas
• Spirit of the Plains, CASA
• St. Catherine Hospital Development Foundation
• The Community, Inc.
• Tumbleweed Festival
• Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center
• YMCA of Southwest Kansas

Donor Advised Fund Grants ($549,710)

Clifford Family Fund

• ABC Pregnancy Care Center
• Friend of Lee Richardson Zoo

Ed & Nelda Lewis Fund

• YMCA of Southwest Kansas

Eltrude Elliot Hall Fund

• Sublette United Methodist Church

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

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Finney County Farm Bureau Association - Donor Advised Fund

• Kansas Food Bank
• Red Dog Children's Museum

Gary & Carolyn Salyer Fund

• Finney County Humane Society

Gerald & Phyllis Greene Fund

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Henry & Nellie Hall Fund

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

Herman & Marjorie Cooper Fund

• McPherson Opera House

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

• Emmaus House

Luther & Ardis Fry Donor Advised Fund

• Benincasa
• Finney County Historical Society
• Finney County Humane Society
• Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo
• Genesis Family Health
• Kansas Food Bank
• Meals on Wheels
• Mosaic
• Real Men Real Leaders
• Russell Child Development Center

Matha Sherman Fund

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

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

• ABC Pregnancy Care Center
• Finney County United Way
• Turning Point Church of the Nazarene

Agency Fund Grants ($60,620)

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fi. & Ke. Counties Fund

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Fi. & Ke. Counties

Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas Fund

• Catholic Charities of Southwest Kansas

Cimarron City Library Fund

• Cimarron City Library

Community Day Care Center Fund

• Community Day Care Center

Emmaus House Fund

• Emmaus House

Family Crisis Services Fund

• Family Crisis Services

Finney County Community Health Coalition Fund

• Finney County Community Health Coalition

Finney County Historical Society Fund

• Finney County Historical Society

Finney County Humane Society Fund

• Finney County Humane Society

Finney County Public Library Fund

• Finney County Public Library

Finney County United Way Fund

• Finney County United Way

Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo Fund 

• Friends of Lee Richardson Zoo

Garden City Arts Fund

• Garden City Arts

Garden City Noon Lions Club Fund

• Garden City Noon Lions Club

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

• Leave a Legacy Foundation

Magic's HOPE Fund

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Miles of Smiles

• Miles of Smiles

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

• Russell Child Development Center

Satanta Lions Club Fund

• Satanta Lions Club

Shepherd of the Plains Foundation Fund

• Shepherd of the Plains Foundation

Special Olympics Kansas Fund

• Special Olympics Kansas

Spirit of the Plains, CASA Fund

• Spirit of the Plains, CASA

St. Catherine Hospital Development Foundation Fund

• St. Catherine Hospital Development Foundation

Sublette Public School Fund

• Sublette Public Schools Foundation

 

Designated Fund Grants ($244,188.15)

Anne Dew Brown Fund

• Wasatch Academy
• Lewis & Clark College
• Earlham College
• Friends Academy
• First Presbyterian Church
• Presbyterian Church, Garden City
• Western Kansas Community Foundation

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

• USD #483

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

• St. Catherine Hospital Development Foundation

Ellen H. Oswalt Fund

• Finney County Public Library

Garden City Family YMCA Fund

• YMCA of Southwest Kansas

Garden City Catholic Schools Alumni & Friends

• St. Dominic School

Humanities Kansas Fund

• Humanities Kansas

Jeanne B. Corley Hospice Fund

• St. Catherine Hospital Hospice

KHF Operating Fund

• The Community, Inc.

Lawrence F. Zant and Marjorie R. Williams Memorial Fund

• Finney County Humane Society

Mosaic in Garden City

• Mosaic

Otis & Mary Lee Molz Fund

• Garden City Community College Endowment Association

Pat & Gene LeClerc Fund

• Women of Purpose Fund

Patsy Ruddick Memorial Fund

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

Ray & Geraldine Mann Family Fund

• Alzheimer's Association of Central and Western Kansas
• Finney County United Way

Robert Whippo Memorial Fund

• Sangre De Cristo Vocal Arts Ensemble

Women of Purpose Fund

• Core Community Ulysses
• Grace Place Pregnancy Care Center
• Great Plains MakerSpace

 

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 ($131,270)

Anna & May Rosel Scholarship Fund

• Arabella Ashby
• Chloe Curl
• Baylor Deyoe
• Kerlyn Enamorado Diaz
• Addison Mathes
• Valentin Montes
• Elyzabeth Nunez
• Emily Nunez
• Brittany Raines
• Nayeli Romero
• Mika Schultz
• Samantha Scott
• Clarissa Sianuqui
• Natalya Sifuentes
• Oscar Soto
• Bryson Stejskal
• Sara Watson 
• Becca Yafa Wendt

Bernadine Sitts Scholarship Fund

• Lindsay Alarcon
• Justin Contreras
• Kelsey Kimbrel
• John Oswalt
• Michael Oswalt
• Riley Sekavec

Bob Krug Scholarship Fund

• Joshua Negron

Bud Ward Family Scholarship Fund

• Karli Krier
• Jonathan Temaat

Cecil & Francis O'Brate Scholarship Fund

• Robert Allen
• Breck Averhoff
• Kaylee Birkholz
• Lane Lightner
• Triniti McPhail-Pencis
• Langston Northern
• Abbie Reist
• Estrella Ruiz Arcos
• Remy Tate
• Codee Unruh
• Emma Wedel

Charles Helfrich Memorial Scholarship Fund

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Chase Mitchel Webber Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Cale Enns

D & L Hewes Scholarship Fund

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Duane Nichols Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Kaden Hardy

Erdene Corley Scholarship Fund

• Garden City Community College Endowment Association

Garden City Wrestling Alumni Scholarship Fund

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Jan McLeland Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Morgan Pendergraft

Katherine C. Jones Scholarship #1

• Halle Jones

Katherine C. Jones Scholarship #2 - Continuing Education

• Kendall Brungardt

K.O. & Ruth Powell Scholarship Fund

• Garden City Community College Endowment Association

Mallory Worf Hernandez Memorial Fund

• Crystal Trevino

Tanner Dean Born Memorial Fund

• Ashlynn Bradley
• Halle Jones
• Jayln VanPelt

Tonya Wright Memorial Fund

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Wilmer "Bill" & Dorthea Kline Educational Fund

• Baylor Deyoe
• Luke Janzen
• Bryson Stejskal
• Kami Whipple

Non-Permanent Fund Grants ($131,040)

Buffalo Living Legacy 

• USD #457 - Garden City Public Schools

Cecil & Frances O'Brate Non-Permanent Scholarship Fund

• Emma Wedel

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

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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

Garrett Doll Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Avery Just

Law Enforcement Explorers Program Fund

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Norbert "Kevin" Irsik Scholarship Fund

• Estephania Anaya-Lopez
• Kiera Buchholz
• Crystal Casas
• Katie Heiman
• Luke Janzen

Ron Peek Memorial Scholarship Fund

• Ashlynn Bradley
• Kaleb Reagle

USD #216, Deerfield Scholarship Fund

• Amara Browning
• Ashley Weiberg

Women of Purpose Non-Permanent Fund

• Scott Community High School - FFA
• Holcomb High School FFA

WKCF Temporary Holding Fund

• YMCA of Southwest Kansas

(Page updated on 8/27/26)