· Private foundation
Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $653k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.1M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KU ENDOWMENT ASSN | $500,000 |
| WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER LTD | $250,000 |
| FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC | $214,286 |
| EMPOWER EVERGREEN INC | $125,000 |
| FIRST TEE-GREATER WICHITA | $125,000 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| STARKEY INC | $100,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA | $100,000 |
| HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC INC | $100,000 |
| NEWTON HEALTHCARE CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| FREEDOM HOOVES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $100,000 |
| THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | $100,000 |
| KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE | $100,000 |
| KANSAS HEALTH SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
70 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 15 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $972k 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
- PFPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +179% · 41% of their budget
- SCSEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2018–2022 · $2.0M · revenue +75%
- CACHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY6× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +379% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- EEMPOWERone grant, 2023 · $250k
- CPCEREBRAL PALSY RESEARCH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $250k
- FUFriends Universityone grant, 2022 · $200k · revenue +4%
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.
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 kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
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…
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita 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.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 131 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 SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas Health Science University Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds KVC HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE 42 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds STARKEY INC ↗
- Who funds Bike Walk Wichita Inc ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH ↗
- Who funds CAMP WOOD YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds GRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED BEHAVIORAL TECHNOLOGIES INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOOVES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ELKS TRAINING CENTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC ↗
- Who funds EMBERHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER EVERGREEN 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: Wichita Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Ima Foundation · Belin Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable 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 Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable 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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