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Koch Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k521 grants · $984k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $192k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $355k
- $250k+2 grants · $760k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Youth Entrepreneurs Inc | $500,000 |
| Wichita State University Foundation | $260,000 |
| Koch Cultural Trust | $150,000 |
| Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History | $75,000 |
| Allen House Foundation | $70,000 |
| Bill of Rights Institute | $60,000 |
| Mark Arts | $45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Music Theatre of Wichita | $27,000 |
| Envision Foundation | $25,000 |
| Symphony in the Flint Hills | $20,000 |
| Wichita Art Museum | $20,000 |
| Pando Initiative | $15,000 |
| B Tan | $2,000 |
| K John | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
794 repeat relationships — 338 still active in FY2024, 456 since wound down; 189 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $368k 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
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +85%- KCKoch Cultural Trust7× · 2017–2024 · $890k · revenue +28% · 100% of their budget
- BOBill of Rights Institute5× · 2017–2024 · $732k · revenue +248%
Funded once
- PFPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +42%
- ALALLEN LAMBE HOUSE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $210k
- OUOTTAWA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +118%
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 preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Wesleyan university is dedicated to providing an education in liberal arts by building a diverse, energetic community of students, faculty, and staff who value independence of mind and generosity of spirit. see additional description in…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Coe college is a private, four-year co-educational liberal arts college.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lakhani Family Foundation Lakhani. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 1,250 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Koch Cultural Trust ↗
- Who funds Bill of Rights Institute ↗
- Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Allen House Foundation ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds THE PANDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends University ↗
- Who funds ENVISION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) ↗
- Who funds THE ELLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Depot Theater Company ↗
- Who funds MULBERRY ARTS 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: Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · The Walser Foundation · Servant Foundation · Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation · DeVore Foundation Inc · Annie Foundation · The Fidelity Bank 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 Koch Family Foundation 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.
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