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Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0186% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$178kArts & Culture$110kHealth$90kPhilanthropy$70kEducation$48kFood & Nutrition$47kScience & Tech$44kReligion$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $70k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$3,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER$11,500
EMPOWER$10,000
HUMANKIND MINISTRIES$10,000
UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC$8,000
HIS HELPING HANDS INC$5,000
ORPHEUM THEATRE$5,000
HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC$5,000
WICHITA POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION$5,000
MUSIC THEATRE OF WICHITA$4,400
THE WOMEN'S NETWORK$4,300
CAIRN HEALTH$4,000
Individual grant recipient$3,300
MUSIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP$3,000
KANSAS FOOD BANK$3,000
BREAD OF LIFE DISTRIBUTION CENTER$3,000
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 (FY17–25, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$700k · 32 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
7

Total granted

$700k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+85%

Still filing today

72%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • WF
    WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER
    8× · 2018–2025 · $72k · revenue +153%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +13%
  • EP
    EXPLORATION PLACE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • KH
    KVC HEALTH SYSTEM
    one grant, 2019 · $12k
  • WC
    WICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +179%
  • FP
    FIRST PRESBYTERIAN WICHITA FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -82%
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
Wichita Habitat for Humanity Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
2
Wichita Falls Faith Mission Inc

To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.

Religion
3
Wichitas Littlest Heroes

Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…

Human Services
4
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
5
Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc

To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.

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6
Kansas Food Bank Foundation Inc

To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.

Food & Nutrition
7
Wichita Eye Foundation

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.

Health
8
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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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
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
11
Wichita Adore Ministries

Bringing souls face to face with the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Christ and forming missionaries of the New Evangelization. The organization has realized this mission by providing music and production services for worship events.

Religion
12
Kansas Wesleyan University

Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita; the most unlike its peers is Chamber Music At the Barn 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

33 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. 33 of the 45 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
20/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIS HELPING HANDS INC: $42,000 · OtherHIS HELPING HANDS INCIndividual grant recipient: $41,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVIA CHRISTI HOSPITALS: $30,000 · OtherVIA CHRISTI HOSPITALSIndividual grant recipient: $28,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientORPHEUM THEATRE: $15,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $15,000 · OtherKVC HEALTH SYSTEM: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $11,000 · OtherKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $24,000 · OtherKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INCWICHITA POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION: $18,700 · OtherWICHITA POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION+10 more: $65,000 · Other+10 moreWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $72,000 · Human ServicesWICHITA FAMILY CRISI…BREAD OF LIFE DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE DISTRI…CHILD START INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesCHILD START INCSENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA: $12,100 · Human ServicesSENIOR SERVICES INC …KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $9,000 · Human ServicesKANSAS CHILDRENS SER…+3 more: $7,300 · Human ServicesEXPLORATION PLACE INC: $43,500 · Arts & CultureEXPLORATION PLACE …MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $35,600 · Arts & CultureMUSIC THEATRE WICH…THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE KANSAS AFRICAN…WICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWICHITA-SEDGWICK C…KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBLIC TELE…UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · HealthKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $18,000 · HealthEPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH: $12,000 · Health+2 more: $3,000 · HealthWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $20,000 · EducationWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationMUSIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC: $20,000 · ReligionFIRST PRESBYTERIAN WICHITA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Religion
Other$302,400Human Services$140,900Arts & Culture$124,100Philanthropy$70,000Health$53,000Education$51,000Religion$30,000

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 budgetWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $72,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $70,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEXPLORATION PLACE INC: $43,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHIS HELPING HANDS INC: $42,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $35,600 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC: $22,500 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetHOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $20,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWICHITA POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION: $18,700 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCHILD START INC: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA: $12,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH: $12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFIRST PRESBYTERIAN WICHITA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $10,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAIRN HEALTH INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChamber Music At The Barn Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC: $4,300 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOME TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPLY HYGIENE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds HIS HELPING HANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
  • Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD OF LIFE DISTRIBUTION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IS ALIVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHILD START INC ↗
  • Who funds KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
  • Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA ↗
  • Who funds EPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA-SEDGWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds FIRST PRESBYTERIAN WICHITA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CAIRN HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Chamber Music At The Barn Inc ↗
  • Who funds ORPHEUM THEATRE GROUP ↗
  • Who funds WICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS ↗

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.

Dwane L and Velma Lun…Wichita FoundationTextron Charitable Tr…Belin FoundationGoebel Family-Star Lu…Berry Foundation IncDaniel J Taylor Famil…Ima FoundationThe Fidelity Bank Fou…United Way of the Pla…Kansas Health Foundat…Bruce G Cochener Foun…
Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable FoundationKS41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Belin Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Berry Foundation Inc · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · Ima Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 45 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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