· Private foundation
Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $478k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bishop Carroll Catholic High School | $83,496 |
| League 42 | $76,500 |
| Catholic Diocese of Wichita | $54,832 |
| Embrace | $50,494 |
| Wichita State University | $46,177 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $39,497 |
| Beyond the Call | $32,500 |
| Star Family Cares | $30,000 |
| Ability Point | $30,000 |
| Newman University | $28,000 |
| Via Christi Foundation | $27,500 |
| Camber Childrens Mental Health | $25,000 |
| Kansas Health Foundation | $25,000 |
| Wichita Area Sexual Assault | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $641k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 91% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
71 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $538k 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
- EPEXPLORATION PLACE INC2× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +95%
- SFSTARKEY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $299k · revenue +139% · 37% of their budget
- NUNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2020–2025 · $128k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- URUNION RESCUE MISSION OF WICHITA INCone grant, 2021 · $100k
- WPWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $56k · revenue -66%
- OTOrpheum Theaterone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
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 provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
To promote and improve the quality of life by providing integrated healthcare services to the entire community in the name and spirit of Christ
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.
Provide women survivors of domestic abuse with educational and employment opportunities fostering healing and self-sufficiency.
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.
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ascension Via Christi Rehabilitation Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Belvin Literacy Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
89 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. 89 of the 211 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds STARKEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE 42 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMBERHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds AbilityPoint Inc ↗
- Who funds Benedictine College ↗
- Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND THE CALL INC ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds VIA CHRISTI FOUNDATION 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 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · United Way of the Plains Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Ima Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · Belin Foundation · The Walser 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 Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust 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.
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc — 0% of income from government
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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