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Dondlinger Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

Dondlinger Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$36k
Granted FY2026still arriving
6
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Religion$24kEducation$20kYouth Development$10kScience & Tech$6kHealth$4kCivil Rights$3k
02FY2026 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$428k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GUADALUPE CLINIC$10,000
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA$10,000
MARK ARTS$7,500
VAGABOND MISSION$5,000
SISTERS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY$2,000
CASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC$1,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%ST VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC CHURCH: $1k → 8%NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%NEWMAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%SISTERS OF THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY: $2k → 16%ERIN IS HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 16%GUADALUPE CLINIC: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA: $10k → 16%CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA: $7k → 16%CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA: $5k → 16%HOLY FAMILY SPECIAL NEEDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 16%VAGABOND MISSIONS: $10k → 16%VAGABOND MISSION: $5k → 16%EXPLORATION PLACE: $5k → 16%VAGABOND MISSION: $5k → 16%VAGABOND MISSION: $5k → 16%EXPLORATION PLACE: $500 → 16%CASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC: $2k → 16%KANSANS FOR LIFE: $3k → 16%CASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC: $1k → 16%MARK ARTS: $8k → 16%URBAN PREPAPATORY ACADEMY: $3k → 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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62k · 5 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2026, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$62k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+2%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEducationReligionOther
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

  • CD
    CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA
    3× · 2024–2026 · $22k
  • NU
    NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +10%
  • VM
    VAGABOND MISSION
    3× · 2024–2026 · $15k

Funded once

  • VM
    VAGABOND MISSIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • HF
    Holy Family Special Needs Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +4%
  • UP
    URBAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY WICHITA
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -25%
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
Chesterton Academy of St Philip Neri

Inspired by Saint Pope John Paul II, we take as our motto Cultura Vitae, the culture of life, as our students triumph over the materialism and despair that pervades our culture in order to have life and have it abundantly. We do this with…

Education
2
University of Notre Dame du Lac

See Schedule O. See explanation for Form 990, Part I, Line 1 - Organization's Mission above.

Education
3
Kansas Life Fund Inc

Kansas Life Fund Inc. exists for the following exempt civic and educational purposes: (a) educating Kansas citizens about the public policy issues concerning the protection of human life; (b) building coalition networks to enhance…

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4
Wichita Montessori School Inc

We seek to provide a superior educational experience for children ages 3 to 11, utilizing the montessori methods of teaching and learning. we address the intellectual, emotional, physical and social growth of each child.

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5
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
6
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
7
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
8
Guadalupe Health Foundation

To support, assist and promote the interests and welfare of the programs and activities of the catholic diocese of wichita which provide health care services and health education to poor, distressed and underprivileged individuals.

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9
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
10
Historic Wichita Cowtown Inc

Old Cowtown Museum, 1865 W Museum Blvd. Wichita, KS 67203, is owned and operated by the City of Wichita and is supported by Historic Wichita Cowtown, Inc, a 501(c)(3) advisory board, in partnership with the City of Wichita. Old Cowtown…

Arts & Culture
11
Avila University

Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…

Education
12
Marian University

To be a great catholic university dedicated to excellence in learning, achieved by teaching, research, & scholarly activities in franciscan & liberal arts tradition.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Family Special Needs Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA: $22,000 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITAVAGABOND MISSION: $15,000 · OtherVAGABOND MISSIONGuadalupe Clinic Inc: $10,000 · OtherGuadalupe Clinic IncVAGABOND MISSIONS: $10,000 · OtherVAGABOND MISSIONSHoly Family Special Needs Foundation: $3,000 · OtherKansans For Life Inc: $2,500 · Other+3 more: $4,000 · Other+3 moreNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $17,000 · EducationNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INCURBAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY WICHITA: $3,000 · EducationURBAN PREPARATORY ACAD…MARK ARTS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureMARK ARTS INCEXPLORATION PLACE INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureEXPLORATION PL…CASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 · Religion
Other$66,500Education$20,000Arts & Culture$13,000Religion$2,500

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 budgetNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARK ARTS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEXPLORATION PLACE INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Family Special Needs Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY WICHITA: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASTING NETS MINISTRIES INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKansans For Life Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Textron Charitable Tr…Lattner Family Founda…
Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353RI15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Lattner Family Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 14 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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