· Private foundation
Evans Gordon W Charitable Tr
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSIC THEATRE OF WICHITA | $17,500 |
| MARK ARTS | $7,500 |
| EXPLORATION PLACE | $5,000 |
| WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY WICHITA | $5,000 |
| MUSIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $4,200 |
| WICHITA CHAMBER CHORALE | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2026, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- MTMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA4× · 2023–2026 · $61k · revenue +66%
- MAMARK ARTS INC4× · 2023–2026 · $25k · revenue +71%
- NUNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2018–2020 · $13k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CMChamber Music At The Barn Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue 0% · 85% of their budget
- WSWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY ULRICH MUSEUM OF ART WICHITA KSone grant, 2017 · $2k
- WSWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS WICHITA KSone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
MTS aims to ignite the lifelong love of performing arts and promote valuing creativity, community, and artistic excellence.
Mucical Theatre Works (MTW) is a theater academy and performance organization. WTW provides participatory experience for students to produce two full-scale musicals each year.
Making the arts accessible to all
Music theatre of connecticut, inc., was formed to foster and promote the growth and appreciation of theatre to the general public and to teach the appreciation of cultural and artistic values and benefits of theatre through production and…
The mission of Music Theatre of Wenatchee, a volunteer, non-profit organization incorporated under Washington state law, is to provide quality, live theatrical entertainment for the community from concept to performance, to provide…
The musical theater center's mission is to share the joy of children's theater with many diverse audiences. it strives to be a positive force in the community by providing exceptional musical theater stage productions made up entirely of…
To provide educational programs to children in the community with regard to performing arts.
Mission of MYA is to build a home with the power of music to enrich the lives of the students and their communities.
Musical performance & youth education
To provide cultural opportunities to under represented audiences in SW Idaho
The mission of the millwald theatre is to be a cultural hub that provides exceptional and accessible arts experiences including entertainment, education, and civic dialogue while promoting economic growth in our community.
To provide theater peforming arts opportunities in wichita, kansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Music Theatre 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.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 18 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 MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Chamber Music At The Barn Inc ↗
- Who funds FORUM THEATRE COMPANY WICHITA 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: K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Koch Family Foundation · Charitable Foundation Inc · Annie Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Evans Gordon W Charitable Tr 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.