· Private foundation
1440 Ventures Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KU ENDOWMENT | $250,000 |
| ORPHEUM THEATRE | $250,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC | $10,000 |
| MIDWEST HISTORIC AND GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY INC | $6,600 |
| KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA INC | $2,000 |
| WICHITA ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA | $1,000 |
| USD 290 DERBY PARENTS AS TEACHERS | $1,000 |
| KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE INC | $1,000 |
| KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC | $1,000 |
| BOTANICA INC | $1,000 |
| STORYTIME VILLAGE INC | $1,000 |
| HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC | $1,000 |
| STEPSTONE | $1,000 |
| MCCORMICK SCHOOL MUSEUM INC | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +17%
- SISTEPSTONE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $7k · revenue +56%
- BIBOTANICA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- HHUMANKINDone grant, 2022 · $1k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS SEDGWICK CO KSone grant, 2022 · $1k
- MTMUSIC THEATRE WICHITAgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +35%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
Inspire and educate the community to engage in preservation through the kell house heritage center.
Wplf seeks private charitable support to create young readers, ensure digital inclusion, and provide equitable access to information. wplf's sole purpose is to create a margin of excellence at wichita public library.
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
To improve the quality of life for residents of wichita county, ks through community and economic development activities.
To provide educational programs to children in the community with regard to performing arts.
The wichita county community foundation is a nonprofit, non-sectarian organization dedicated to preserving local wealth so the communities in and around leoti and wichita county will forever remain attractive places to live, work and raise…
Engage community partners (including local governments, nonprofit organizations, and public institutions) to develop a community vision to address education, quality of life, infrastructure, workforce, and economic development and…
The organization is dedicated to promoting the humane treatment of animals and addressing the issues and problems related to overpopulation of domestic animals.
Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita and the most unlike its peers is Harvester Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCCORMICK SCHOOL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds STORYTIME VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds HARVESTER ARTS ↗
- Who funds WICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds Wichita Downtown Development Corporation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Berry Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Wichita Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Annie Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · DeVore Foundation Inc · Mosby Lincoln Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization 1440 Ventures Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.