· Private foundation
Berry Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $390k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sedgwick County Zoo | $250,000 |
| Music Theatre Wichita | $230,000 |
| Quivira Council BSA | $126,000 |
| Heartspring | $125,000 |
| Hunter Health | $125,000 |
| Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County | $125,000 |
| The Orpheum Theatre | $125,000 |
| Eastminster Presbyterian Church | $80,000 |
| United Way of the Plains | $55,000 |
| HumanKind | $50,000 |
| Friends University | $40,000 |
| AED FOUNDATION | $37,000 |
| Texas Equusearch | $35,000 |
| Pittsburg State University Foundation | $25,000 |
| WSU Foundation | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 103 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k 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 INC9× · 2017–2025 · $393k · revenue +13%
- FUFriends University9× · 2017–2025 · $289k · revenue +43%
- TAThe AED Foundation Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +450%
Funded once
- SNSOCE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0% · 26% of their budget
- SCSEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $53k · revenue +67%
- CCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF AURORA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +225%
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
To engage in grant making to medical educational organizations and related charitable activities in the area of eye disease and vision disorder, and the care and treatment thereof.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Via Christi Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ima Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
171 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. 171 of the 333 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds The AED Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds DOC'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE GUNNISON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds SUSANS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPENET INC ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN HOMES & FAMILY SVCS ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS WAY INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
- Who funds KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
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: Wichita Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · United Way of the Plains Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Kansas Health Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Ima Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · Belin Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation
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 Berry 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.
- Autism Society of America Inc — 8% of income from government
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.