· Private foundation
Bruce G Cochener 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $86k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Seattle Repertory Theater | $85,000 |
| Duke University | $60,000 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | $50,000 |
| Spruce Street School | $50,000 |
| Assistance League of Wichita | $26,000 |
| Seattle Academy of the Arts | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| PBS Kansas | $16,096 |
| Wichita Community Foundation | $13,578 |
| Wichita Collegiate School | $12,500 |
| KVC Foundation-Camber Mental Health | $12,000 |
| Music Theatre of Wichita | $11,500 |
| Discovery Childrens Museum | $10,000 |
| Child Advocacy Center | $10,000 |
| Wichita State University Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 24 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- FHFred Hutchinson Cancer Center4× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +209%
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $180k · revenue +27%
SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE3× · 2020–2025 · $178k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SRSeatlle Reperatory Theaterone grant, 2022 · $93k
- CHCAIRN HEALTH INCone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue 0%
- MTMusic Theatreone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
At wichita habitat for humanity, we believe everyone deserves the strength, stability, and independence that comes with a safe, affordable home. we partner with hardworking individuals and families in our community, empowering them to…
On behalf of the university of kansas school of medicine-wichita, wcgme administers the graduate medical education program for resident physicians in the city of wichita, kansas. wcgme's involvement in graduate medical education in wichita…
Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
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.
Hunter health (the center) operates three healthcare centers in wichita, ks. the center provides a broad range of health services to a largely medically underserved population. the us dept. of health and human services (dhhs) and indian…
The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.
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.
To decrease pet homelessness, increase pet retention and improve the quality of life for pets through education and supportive services for families in need.
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita and the most unlike its peers is Cma Pto. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 199 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 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Spruce Street School ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WIREGRASS UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARKEY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS WAY INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ICT FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAIRN HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds HOPENET INC ↗
- Who funds WSU Tech Foundation ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS WICHITA 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: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Wichita Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Ima Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Belin 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 Bruce G Cochener Foundation 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.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% 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.
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