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Bonavia Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$460kEducation$176kHuman Services$32kScience & Tech$18kEnvironment$17kFood & Nutrition$15kYouth Development$14kRecreation & Sports$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION$50,000
THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC$50,000
PBS KANSAS$16,000
WSU SCHOOL OF DANCE$10,000
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD$5,000
WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY$5,000
RADIO KANSAS$2,500
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$2,000
OPERA KANSAS$500
WICHITA CHAMBER CHORALE$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%EMBERHOPE INC: $3k → 9%WICHITA CHILDRENS HOME: $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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$699k · 21 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
13

Total granted

$699k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+63%

Still filing today

57%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 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 ServicesEnvironmentHealthOther
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
    4× · 2018–2025 · $109k · revenue +18%
  • OP
    ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD
    5× · 2017–2025 · $20k · revenue +348%
  • BI
    BOTANICA INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • FRACTURED ATLAS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +71%
  • MT
    MUSIC THEATRE WICHITAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +66%
  • CO
    CENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
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
Kansas City Ballet Association

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

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
Arkansas Repertory Theatre

To produce a diverse body of theatrical work of the highest artistic standards. with a focus on dramatic storytelling that illuminates the human journey, the theatre entertains, engages and challenges local and regional audiences of all…

Arts & Culture
4
Wichita Falls Ballet Theatre Inc

Ballet productions presented to the public in the wichita falls area for their enjoyement and to promote the performing arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Wichita Falls Backdoor Players Inc

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

Arts & Culture
6
Oklahoma Repertory Theatre Group Inc

Okc rep produces live theater that builds community, creates conversation, and inspires us all.

Arts & Culture
7
Wichita Children's Theatre Inc

To provide educational programs to children in the community with regard to performing arts.

Arts & Culture
8
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.

Arts & Culture
9
Wichita Downtown Development Corporation

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

Community Improvement
10
Opera Omaha Inc

Enriching the quality of life in the community by creating professional opera and music theater, which uniquely combine the visual and performing arts to express humanity's deepest emotions and highest aspirations.

Arts & Culture
11
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
12
Forum Theatre Company Wichita Inc

The mission of forum theatre is to provide affordable entertainment for the community.

Arts & Culture
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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC: $108,835 · OtherINDEPENDENT SCHOOL INCWSU SCHOOL OF DANCE: $53,000 · OtherWSU SCHOOL OF DANCEKS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERV: $48,000 · OtherKS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVTALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATIO: $40,000 · OtherTALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATIOCENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITY: $29,500 · OtherCENTRAL OREGON COMMUNITYTHE SALVATION ARMY: $27,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYKS FOOD BANK: $15,285 · OtherWICHITA SEDGWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL: $12,250 · Other+9 more: $18,300 · OtherTALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION: $169,965 · Arts & CultureTALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATIONKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $64,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICEWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $37,500 · Arts & CultureWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETYORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD: $19,800 · Arts & CultureORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD+8 more: $43,200 · Arts & Culture+8 moreWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,250 · EducationPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,750 · EducationFriends University: $4,200 · EducationBOTANICA INC: $17,000 · EnvironmentEMBERHOPE INC: $2,700 · Human ServicesTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1,382 · Human ServicesWICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC: $100 · Health
Other$352,670Arts & Culture$334,465Education$31,200Environment$17,000Human Services$4,082Health$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION: $169,965 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetINDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC: $108,835 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $64,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $37,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD: $19,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOTANICA INC: $17,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $16,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $10,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND: $7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWichita Art Museum Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends University: $4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMBERHOPE INC: $2,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET WICHITA INC: $2,600 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAMAFILM INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $1,382 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVESTER ARTS: $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 TALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD ↗
  • Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN DOCUMENTARY FUND ↗
  • Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends University ↗
  • Who funds EMBERHOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLET WICHITA INC ↗
  • Who funds MAMAFILM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds OPERA KANSAS ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTER ARTS ↗

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.

Annie FoundationDwane L and Velma Lun…Wichita FoundationTextron Charitable Tr…Berry Foundation IncThe Fidelity Bank Fou…Lattner Family Founda…Garvey Kansas Foundat…The Sheppard Foundati…K T Wiedemann Foundat…Mosby Lincoln Foundat…Goebel Family-Star Lu…
Annie FoundationKS39× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Bonavia Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bonavia Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 36 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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