Kansas · Private foundation
Bonavia Family Charitable Trust
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.
- $141k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Bonavia Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $141k | 22% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $76k | 38% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $70k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $55k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $69k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $95k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $59k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $114k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tallgrass Film Association | $169,965 | 6 | 8% |
| Independent School Inc | $108,835 | 4 | 1% |
| Kansas Public Telecommunications Service | $64,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wichita Symphony Society | $37,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Orpheum Performing Arts Centre Ltd | $19,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Botanica Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wichita State University Foundation | $16,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc | $10,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Music Theatre Wichita | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tallgrass Film Association | $169,965 | 6 | 8% |
| Independent School Inc | $108,835 | 4 | 1% |
| Kansas Public Telecommunications Service | $64,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wichita Symphony Society | $37,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Orpheum Performing Arts Centre Ltd | $19,800 | 5 | 0% |
| Botanica Inc | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wichita State University Foundation | $16,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc | $10,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Music Theatre Wichita | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southern Documentary Fund | $7,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Wichita Art Museum Inc | $7,500 | 2 | 0% |
| The Kansas African American Museum Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends University | $4,200 | 3 | 0% |
| Emberhope Inc | $2,700 | 1 | 0% |
| Ballet Wichita Inc | $2,600 | 1 | 1% |
| Mamafilm Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $1,382 | 1 | 0% |
| Fisch Bowl Inc | $700 | 2 | n/a |
| Opera Kansas | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita Chamber-Chorale Inc | $250 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Harvester Arts | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($241k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bonavia Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Annie Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Berry Foundation Inc · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Garvey Kansas Foundation · The Sheppard Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Mosby Lincoln Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust
How this is measured
About Bonavia Family Charitable Trust
- How much does Bonavia Family Charitable Trust give?
- Bonavia Family Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $141,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bonavia Family Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (62%), Education (24%), Human Services (4%).
- Who are Bonavia Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tallgrass Film Association ($170k), Independent School Inc ($109k), Kansas Public Telecommunications Service ($64k).
- Does Bonavia Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bonavia Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bonavia Family Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Annie Foundation, Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation, Wichita Foundation.
- Where is Bonavia Family Charitable Trust based?
- Bonavia Family Charitable Trust is based in KS.
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