· Private foundation
DeVore Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $351k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Exploration Place | $100,000 |
| Music Theatre Wichita | $35,000 |
| Kansas Health Science Center | $30,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $30,000 |
| Hunter Health Clinic | $30,000 |
| Wichita Art Museum | $25,000 |
| Botanica - The Wichita Gardens | $25,000 |
| The Orpheum Theatre | $25,000 |
| Starkey Inc | $25,000 |
| United Way of the Plains | $20,000 |
| Historic Wichita Cowtown Inc | $20,000 |
| Sedgwick County Zoo | $20,000 |
| Rainbows United | $18,000 |
| Greater Wichita YMCA | $15,000 |
| City of Wichita | $13,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $157k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k 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
- HHHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC5× · 2020–2024 · $155k · revenue +123%
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +17%
- WAWichita Art Museum Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $20k
- CECity-Wichita Excellence in Pub Svcone grant, 2020 · $11k
- WPWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -29%
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.
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
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.
The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.
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.
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.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
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…
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…
The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.
The wichita swim club is dedicated to competitive swimming, serving swimmers from all over the wichita and south central kansas area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita and the most unlike its peers is Kansas Sheriffs Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 63 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 77 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 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Kansas Health Science University Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Wichita Cowtown Inc ↗
- Who funds KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds STARKEY INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Eisenhower Foundation ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WICHITA METRO CRIME COMMISSION 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 · Wichita Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Ima Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Intrust Bank Charitable Tr · Belin Foundation · Bruce G Cochener 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 DeVore Foundation Inc 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.