· Private foundation
Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 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 FY2021–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- $10k–50k12 grants · $283k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $392k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $66,666 |
| SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION | $55,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SALINA | $50,000 |
| SALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES | $50,000 |
| SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC | $40,000 |
| SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY (SALINA KS CORPS) | $30,000 |
| SALINA FAMILY HEALTHCARE CENTER | $25,000 |
| SALINA TENNIS ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE INC (KPTS CHANNEL 8) | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 9% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +4% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2026, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- STSTIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION6× · 2021–2026 · $382k · revenue +32%
- SCSALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION6× · 2021–2026 · $355k · revenue +91%
- SASALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC6× · 2021–2026 · $287k · revenue +495%
Funded once
- PMPRAIRIELAND MARKET INCone grant, 2025 · $50k
- SOSISTERS OF ST JOSEPHone grant, 2024 · $24k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SALINA ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
To encourage educational excellance by providing resources to enchance opportunities for the students and staff of salina's public schools.
Promote and support economic development
To advance the general welfare and prosperity of the salina area so its citizens and all areas of its business community shall prosper.
Library for benefit of public
To support and further the development, public awareness, and interest in the fine and performing arts and humanities in salina, kansas. to be a supporting organization to the city of salina, kansas, the arts and humanities commission and…
Committed to art, artists, and audiences in salina, kansas and across the region by providing innovative exhibitions, programs, and an interactive area for children of all ages.
Our mission is to save and preserve the historic salina temple building for use as a community resource center.
Salina Area Technical College will meet the employment needs of the region by providing a diverse community of learners with the technical and general education skills necessary for employment, personal growth and lifelong learning.
Serve persons with terminal illness and their families, using multidisciplinary team of medical and social service professionals, and provide community outreach by offering grief support groups and end of life education.
Provide child care and sponsor the child and adult care food program.
Enrichment programs and other projects aimed at enhancing the quality of education and educational opportunities for all students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salina Regional Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Prairieland Market Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA COMMUNITY THEATRE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA EDUCATIONAL AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SALINA BASEBALL ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds Salina Regional Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SMOKY HILLS PUBLIC TELEVISION CORP ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEGION POST 140 ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIELAND MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER ADULT DAY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA HEALTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SALINA TENNIS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA EMERGENCY AIDFOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SALINA CROSSROADS MARATHON ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SALINA 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: Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Earl Bane Foundation · Smoot Charitable Foundation · Milton I and Frances L Stiefel Foundation · McCune & Middlekauff Foundation · Verla Nesbitt Joscelyn Foundation · Morrison Foundation Trust · Salina Regional Health Foundation · Mildred and Rolland Middlekauff Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · Dane G Hansen 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 Jack a Wilson 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.
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.