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Annie Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$182kEducation$72kRecreation & Sports$25kReligion$18kHealth$11kEnvironment$7kFood & Nutrition$6kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$823k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC$25,000
THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM$5,000
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$5,000
PBS KANSAS$4,000
RADIO KANSAS$3,000
CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOC$2,000
BONATICA THE WICHITA GARDENS$900
WICHITA ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND INC$650
WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY$550
SECOND CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST$500
JUNIPER ARTS ACADEMY$500
WICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL$500
KMUW$420
CARTER'S KIDS 733 FOUNDATION$300
THE FORUM THEATRE COMPANY INC$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EMBERHOPE YOUTHVILLE: $250 → 9%CHESTNUT HILL BENEVOLENT ASSOC: $2k → 7%GRUMPY OLD MEN: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MO
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$254k · 39 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
54

Total granted

$254k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+23%

Still filing today

64%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesReligionAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IS
    INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +31%
  • BW
    BALLET WICHITA INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $21k · revenue +56%
  • WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • AU
    ADVENTURE UNLIMITEDgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +122%
  • AU
    ADVENTURE UNLIMITED FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • SD
    SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +423%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Association

To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county

Arts & Culture
2
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
3
Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc

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.

Education
4
Wichita Falls Backdoor Players Inc

To enrich, educate, and entertain the greater wichita falls area through the performing arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Historic Wichita Cowtown Inc

Old Cowtown Museum, 1865 W Museum Blvd. Wichita, KS 67203, is owned and operated by the City of Wichita and is supported by Historic Wichita Cowtown, Inc, a 501(c)(3) advisory board, in partnership with the City of Wichita. Old Cowtown…

Arts & Culture
6
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
7
Wichita Downtown Development Corporation

The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.

Community Improvement
8
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
9
Wichita County Heritage Society Dba Kell House Heritage Center

Inspire and educate the community to engage in preservation through the kell house heritage center.

Arts & Culture
10
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
11
Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc

To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.

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12
Wichita State University Alumni Association Inc

To create, maintain, and enhance relationships among wichita state university alumni, current and prospective students, faculty, staff, and friends in order to foster loyalty, interest, and support for the university and for one another.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ballet Wichita Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mamafilm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 103 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
37/56
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC: $42,213 · OtherINDEPENDENT SCHOOL INCKMUW: $27,485 · OtherKMUWRADIO KANSAS: $24,630 · OtherRADIO KANSASADVENTURE UNLIMITED FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherADVENTURE UNLIMITED FOUNDATIONRIORDAN CLINIC INC: $10,000 · OtherRIORDAN CLINIC INCSymphony in the Flint Hills Inc: $8,500 · Other+58 more: $53,139 · Other+58 moreBALLET WICHITA INC: $20,700 · Arts & CultureBALLET WICHITA INCFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,150 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $12,750 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATI…THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: $11,100 · Arts & CultureTHE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN M…HARVESTER ARTS: $5,550 · Arts & CultureHARVESTER ARTSSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUNDMid-America Arts Alliance: $3,585 · Arts & CultureMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $3,300 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $11,193 · Arts & Culture+15 moreADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,100 · EducationSTORYTIME VILLAGE INC: $3,950 · EducationFriends University: $2,500 · Education+4 more: $1,250 · EducationPEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · ReligionHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC: $1,000 · Religion+1 more: $150 · ReligionChestnut Hill Benevolent Association: $2,000 · Human ServicesGrumpy Old Men Inc: $1,200 · Human ServicesRAISE MY HEAD FOUNDATION: $850 · Human ServicesEMBERHOPE INC: $250 · Human ServicesBOTANICA INC: $3,250 · Environment
Other$180,967Arts & Culture$88,328Recreation & Sports$25,000Education$23,800Religion$12,150Human Services$4,300Environment$3,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC: $42,213 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetADVENTURE UNLIMITED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBALLET WICHITA INC: $20,700 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $15,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $12,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: $11,100 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRIORDAN CLINIC INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSymphony in the Flint Hills Inc: $8,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHARVESTER ARTS: $5,550 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSTORYTIME VILLAGE INC: $3,950 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF WICHITA INC: $3,811 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMid-America Arts Alliance: $3,585 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $3,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOTANICA INC: $3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD: $2,600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends University: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLONGYEAR FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChamber Music At The Barn Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION: $1,834 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWichita Art Museum Inc: $1,569 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAMAFILM INC: $1,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetGrumpy Old Men Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAISE MY HEAD FOUNDATION: $850 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIPER ARTS ACADEMY INC: $750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WICHITA ROTARY CHARITABLE FUND INC: $650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $550 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Principia Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL INC: $400 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cedars Camps Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORUM THEATRE COMPANY WICHITA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMBERHOPE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASSAGEWAYS LTD: $214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWichita African Union Inc: $150 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR PRAYERFUL LIVING: $150 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAROUSEL OF HAPPINESS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF KS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WICHITA INC ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIORDAN CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTER ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
  • Who funds STORYTIME VILLAGE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF WICHITA INC ↗
  • Who funds Mid-America Arts Alliance ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
  • Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD ↗
  • Who funds Friends University ↗
  • Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Chestnut Hill Benevolent Association ↗
  • Who funds Chamber Music At The Barn Inc ↗
  • Who funds TALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAMAFILM INC ↗
  • Who funds Grumpy Old Men Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Wichita FoundationBerry Foundation IncBonavia Family Charit…Dwane L and Velma Lun…Garvey Kansas Foundat…The Fidelity Bank Fou…Lattner Family Founda…Textron Charitable Tr…Kansas Health Foundat…The Sheppard Foundati…James W Garvey Family…Ima Foundation
Wichita FoundationKS45.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wichita Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Bonavia Family Charitable Trust · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Garvey Kansas Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Kansas Health Foundation · The Sheppard Foundation · James W Garvey Family Charitable Trust · Ima Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Annie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Annie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 103 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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