(KAIR)--26 Kansas nonprofit organizations will receive more than $4 million in Community Service Tax Credits, with one recipient based in Atchison County.

According to a a news release issued last week by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, the tax credits are “to improve and enhance fundraising efforts for education, healthcare, childcare, and housing projects.”

Among the 26 beneficiaries of the Community Service Tax Credit program, which Kelly, in the release, calls “an excellent tool [Kansas] can use to to support [the State’s] nonprofits and strengthen the essential services they provide to their communities,” is the Atchison County Community Schools Education Foundation.

According to the release from Kelly’s office, CSP funding is being awarded to the foundation for construction of an 8,400 square-foot, multi-purpose facility “to serve numerous needs present in [the Atchison County] community."

The CSP program provides a 70% tax credit to qualified donors in rural communities with a population less than 15,000 and a 50% tax credit in larger communities

. A highly competitive program, the release notes that awarded nonprofits “were chosen through a competitive, score-based selection process,” with the 26 funded projects selected from 55 requests.