· Private foundation
Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Rainbows United | $25,000 |
| Kansas Health Foundation | $25,000 |
| Camber Childrens Mental Health | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- BCBenedictine Collegegraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +33%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
89 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Tulsa Habitat for Humanity Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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