· Private foundation
James W Garvey Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $250k+1 grant · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL | $750,000 |
| KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE | $15,480 |
| THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| WE TREAT KIDS RIGHT | $6,000 |
| FRIENDS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,168 |
| MUSIC THEATRE OF WICHITA | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,000 |
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $1,500 |
| STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY | $1,500 |
| BREAKTHROUGH EPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES | $1,000 |
| WICHITA FRIENDS SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| PRAIRIE VIEW INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against -74% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ISINDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $824k · revenue +31%
- WSWICHITA SWIM CLUB9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +45%
- KPKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE9× · 2017–2025 · $96k · revenue +135%
Funded once
PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -75%
LONGYEAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -74%- DPDISCOVERY PLACE PRESCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.
The independence school inspires students to become independent, intellectually curious individuals who possess an exceptional spirit for learning, leadership and citizenship.
The mission of Wichita Christian School is to provide a quality education in a Christian environment that inspires hearts, minds, and souls for successful living.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
Editorial projects in education, inc. (epe) was established to raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in american education through a variety of targeted products and media.…
The Kinkaid School provides instruction to approx. 1,480 students from pre-K through grade 12.
The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES) blends the best elements of foreign higher education with American University requirements and encourages students to explore the unique elements of foreign countries.…
Since 1902, Franklin University has been a pioneer in meeting the needs of adult students who have the ambition to continue their education in combination with other responsibilities, receiving its status as a tax exempt organization in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Entrepreneurs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trees for Life Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 52 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 INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MOMS AGAINST FLUORIDATION DBA NATIONAL CLEAN WATER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WICHITA SWIM CLUB ↗
- Who funds KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds We Treat Kids Right ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds The Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Economic Education Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FRIENDS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds Prairie View Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS FOR LIBERTY INC ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds Americans for Prosperity Foundation ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds HEAVEN SENT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
- Who funds LONGYEAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Young Voices ↗
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: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Annie Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Wichita Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · The Walser Foundation · Ima Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Mosby Lincoln 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 James W Garvey Family 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.