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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.

$364k
Granted FY2023
25
Grants FY2023
24
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 24
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
6
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationInternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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
FY202324$364k8%
FY202224$194k4%
FY202123$55k0%
FY202024$19k8%
FY201924$20k21%
FY201820$24k20%
FY201719$22kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$161kEducation$123kHuman Services$95kInternational$52kCrime & Legal$48kScience & Tech$47kFood & Nutrition$38kPhilanthropy$20kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
IA
CO
MO
KS
DC
OK
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($267k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWichita Art Museum Inc: $52,800 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWichita State University Foundation: $51,700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetExploration Place Inc: $46,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetKansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc: $37,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Pando Initiative Inc: $37,400 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetGraceland University: $37,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wichita Children's Home: $34,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMark Arts Inc: $28,272 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of the Plains Inc: $19,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPhillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc: $16,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Academy Incorporated: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKansas Public Telecommunications Service: $3,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Wichita Kansas (2311): $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWichita Public Library Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMusic Theatre Wichita: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts Partners Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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 18.

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.

Berry Foundation IncKS28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation

How much does Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation give?
Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $364,205 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 24 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (18%), Human Services (14%).
Who are Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Wichita Art Museum Inc ($53k), Wichita State University Foundation ($52k), Exploration Place Inc ($47k).
Does Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berry Foundation Inc, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353, DeVore Foundation Inc.
Where is Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation based?
Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation 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 33 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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