· Private foundation
Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WICHITA SALVATION ARMY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WICHITA ART MUSEUM | $30,000 |
| EXPLORATION PLACE | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| MUSIC THEATER OF ICT | $25,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| GRACELAND UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| PANDO INITIATIVE | $20,000 |
| WICHITA CHILDRENS HOME | $20,000 |
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| ULRICH MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MARK ARTS | $10,272 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
25 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- WAWichita Art Museum Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $53k · revenue +69%
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +85%- EPEXPLORATION PLACE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- WFWSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
- MTMUSIC THEATRE WICHITAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +89%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +46%
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.
The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.
To assist local boards of education and related educational entities in their responsibilities to assure a quality public education for all students.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
The wichita foundation invests in people and ideas to spark change, and envisions a place where all wichitans thrive and belong. as community conveners, the foundation leads with courage, grows equitable relationships, ignites philanthropy…
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…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Park university's mission is to transform lives through accessible, student-centered, quality higher education.
The mission of whitefield academy is to support parents by providing students with a top-tier academic foundation in a joyful, christ-centered community of classical learning.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 54 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 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.
19 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. 19 of the 33 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 Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
- Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ARTS PARTNERS 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 · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · DeVore Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Servant Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Lusk Foundation · Koch Family Foundation · Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family 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.