· Private foundation
Camarena Adelante Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $473k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMPOWER | $191,200 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $115,000 |
| KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $113,600 |
| KANSAS HISPANIC EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT | $53,000 |
| PIZZA HUT FOUNDATION | $32,440 |
| Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Scho | $25,000 |
| BUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KU Endowment | $15,450 |
| NXTUS Inc | $11,000 |
| United Way of Greater Kansas City | $10,000 |
| Latino Corporate Directors Associat | $10,000 |
| Greater Kansas City Hispanic Herita | $10,000 |
| Holy savior Catholic academy | $5,000 |
| NEWMAN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Delta Dental of Kansas Foundation | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 98% of your 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- KBKANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $322k · revenue +55%
- PHPIZZA HUT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue +124%
- BCBUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- VMVAGABOND MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $25k
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +23%
- VCVIA CHRISTI FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +38%
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.
Kckcc foundation supports the overall mission of kckcc and its strategic goals and initiatives by managing and distributing student scholarships, building a broad network of engaged alumni, and securing philanthropic support of special…
The kansas hispanic educational & development foundation is organized to promote educational and leadership advancement in the hispanic community through encouraging education through endowments and scholarships, assisting hispanic…
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.
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.
The chamber of commerce of greater kansas city foundation's mission is to invest in solutions that empower current and future generations in the kansas city community. the foundation is organized and operated exclusively for exempt…
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
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.
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Newman University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 36 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 WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PIZZA HUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NXTUS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds VIA CHRISTI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER KANSAS CITY HISPANIC HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 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: Berry Foundation Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust · Belin Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Servant Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Camarena Adelante 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.
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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