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Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$110k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2026
13
Organizations funded FY2025
31%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$16,965
Organizations funded a year
7 to 13
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$1.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 31% of the organizations Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving13$110k23%
FY202513$110k31%
FY20247$111k0%
FY202312$113k8%
FY202213$110k23%
FY202111$107k0%
FY202012$111k17%
FY201912$114k8%
83% 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$186kHealth$159kCommunity Improvement$159kPhilanthropy$159kEducation$39kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Delphos Lions Charities Inc$176,1341099%
Claude & Mabel Childs Charitable Trust$159,169999%
Kansas Wesleyan University$5,50060%
Kansas State University$4,5004n/a
College of the Ozarks$67010%
Central Christian College of Kansas$50010%
Butler Community College$5001n/a
Bethel College$50010%
Sterling College$50010%
Bethany College$50010%
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All grantees of Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Delphos Lions Charities Inc$176,1341099%
Claude & Mabel Childs Charitable Trust$159,169999%
Kansas Wesleyan University$5,50060%
Kansas State University$4,5004n/a
College of the Ozarks$67010%
Central Christian College of Kansas$50010%
Butler Community College$5001n/a
Bethel College$50010%
Sterling College$50010%
Bethany College$50010%
Austin College$3301n/a

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($782k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDelphos Lions Charities Inc: $176,134 over 10y, 99% of budgetClaude & Mabel Childs Charitable Trust: $159,169 over 9y, 99% of budgetKansas Wesleyan University: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Ozarks: $670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Christian College of Kansas: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethel College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSterling College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBethany College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Kansas Independent College AssociationKS15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kansas Independent College Association · The Pete Henry Foundation · Rose Spurrier Scholarship Fund · Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Earl Bane Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust

How much does Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust give?
Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $110,120 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Health (16%), Community Improvement (16%).
Who are Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Delphos Lions Charities Inc ($176k), Claude & Mabel Childs Charitable Trust ($159k), Kansas Wesleyan University ($6k).
Does Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kansas Independent College Association, The Pete Henry Foundation, Rose Spurrier Scholarship Fund.
Where is Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust based?
Dorothy and Lee Roy Parks Charitable Trust is based in KS.

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 29 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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