Kansas · 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.
- $675k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2026
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 18
- FY2021 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 2
- Total assets, FY2026
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 28% of the organizations Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $163k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 18 | $675k | 17% |
| FY2025 | 18 | $622k | 28% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $607k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $689k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $657k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $580k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts Foundation | $382,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Salina Community Theatre Association | $355,123 | 6 | 7% |
| Salina Regional Health Foundation | $324,600 | 6 | 3% |
| Salina Area United Way Inc | $287,000 | 6 | 13% |
| Friends of the River Foundation | $230,000 | 4 | 49% |
| Salina Educational Automotive Museum of America Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 11% |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $175,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Salina Baseball Enterprises Inc | $150,000 | 2 | 48% |
| Salina Regional Health Center Inc | $120,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $95,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust
- How much does Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust give?
- Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust reported 18 grants totaling $674,666 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 18 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
- What does Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Health (18%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts Foundation ($382k), Salina Community Theatre Association ($355k), Salina Regional Health Foundation ($325k).
- Does Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust 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 Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mike Berkley Family Foundation Inc, Greater Salina Community Foundation, Earl Bane Foundation.
- Where is Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust based?
- Jack a Wilson Charitable Trust is based in KS.
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