Kansas OpenGov

Name

Kansas OpenGov

Legal name

Kansas Policy Institute

Website

https://kansasopengov.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Transparency Software

NAICS

Web Search Portals, Libraries, Archives, and Other Information Services (519)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Transparency Portals & Open Data Reporting (EDADAIAN)

Keywords

• Government spending transparency
• Public finance data
• Tax dollar tracking
• Government accountability
• Public sector databanks

Headquarters

HQ city

Wichita

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Kansas OpenGov is a free public transparency platform that provides Kansas citizens with access to categorized reports showing how state, county, city, and school district tax dollars are spent. The platform operates four databanks (State, County, City, School) that collectively aggregate hundreds of spending reports across all levels of Kansas government, enabling citizens to review and evaluate government expenditure data independently.

Product overview

Kansas OpenGov is a transparency platform operated by the Kansas Policy Institute that provides a unified databank system with four categorized reporting products: State Databank, County Databank, City Databank, and School Databank. These four databanks collectively provide access to hundreds of reports showing how tax dollars are spent across different levels of Kansas government, allowing citizens to view and analyze categorized expenditure reports.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• State Databank A databank providing access to reports showing how Kansas state tax dollars are spent. Geared toward Kansas citizens and taxpayers who want to review state-level government expenditures.
• County Databank A databank providing access to reports showing how Kansas county tax dollars are spent. Designed for Kansas citizens and taxpayers interested in reviewing county-level government expenditures.
• City Databank A databank providing access to reports showing how Kansas city tax dollars are spent. Targeted at Kansas citizens and taxpayers who want to review city-level government expenditures.
• School Databank A databank providing access to reports showing how Kansas school district tax dollars are spent. Aimed at Kansas citizens, parents, and taxpayers who want to review school district-level expenditures.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Ballotpedia: A widely used nonprofit civic-information platform covering elections, government, and public finance; provides overlapping citizen-facing transparency functionality but with broader editorial scope and a far larger resource base than Kansas OpenGov.
• Good Jobs First: A national nonprofit accountability organization operating Subsidy Tracker and other transparency databases that overlap with Kansas OpenGov's tax-dollar-tracking mission, but at a multi-state, more analytically sophisticated level.
• USAspending.gov: The official federal government source for federal spending data; a broad incumbent that addresses the federal layer of the same transparency problem Kansas OpenGov addresses at the Kansas state and local level.
• OpenTheBooks: A larger, nationally scoped government transparency platform that aggregates federal, state, and local spending data — offering overlapping functionality to Kansas OpenGov but at a much broader geographic and analytical scale.

Direct peers

• Transparent California: A nonprofit transparency site that aggregates California government salary and spending data for public access, mirroring Kansas OpenGov's free, multi-jurisdictional public-data approach at the state level.
• SeeThroughNY: Operated by the Empire Center for New York State Policy, SeeThroughNY provides New York-specific government spending transparency in a single web portal — the closest direct analogue to Kansas OpenGov's model of a state-level think-tank-run fiscal transparency site.

Regional players

• Illinois Policy Institute: An Illinois-based State Policy Network affiliate think tank that conducts comparable fiscal accountability and government-transparency work for its state, structurally analogous to Kansas OpenGov's Kansas Policy Institute parent.
• Mackinac Center for Public Policy: Michigan's largest state-level free-market think tank and a State Policy Network affiliate; while not a single-purpose transparency portal, it conducts comparable fiscal accountability research and oversight work parallel to Kansas OpenGov's mission.
• Show-Me Institute: A Missouri-based State Policy Network affiliate that operates comparable transparency and fiscal accountability research for its own state, structurally similar to Kansas OpenGov's nonprofit-think-tank transparency model but serving a different geography.

Others

• Kansas Policy Institute: The parent nonprofit that operates Kansas OpenGov; included because it is the organizational umbrella and primary funding source, and is itself a State Policy Network affiliate comparable to other state-level free-market think tanks.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/KsPolicy
• Facebookfacebook.com/KansasPolicyInstitute

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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