Kansas · Private foundation
Lair Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $872k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Lair Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $872k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $1.4M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $765k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $750k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $767k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $463k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $664k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $462k | 37% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita State University Foundation | $1,898,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Wichita Family Crisis Center | $620,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Boys & Girls Club of South Central Kansas Inc | $610,850 | 7 | 6% |
| Rainbows United Inc | $495,140 | 8 | 1% |
| Newspring Church | $495,000 | 4 | n/a |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $166,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters Inc | $116,750 | 5 | 1% |
| Wichita Habitat for Humanity Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Special Operations Warrior Foundation | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lair Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Berry Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Ima Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · DeVore Foundation Inc · Bruce G Cochener Foundation
How this is measured
About Lair Foundation
- How much does Lair Foundation give?
- Lair Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $872,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lair Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (22%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are Lair Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wichita State University Foundation ($1.9M), Wichita Family Crisis Center ($620k), Boys & Girls Club of South Central Kansas Inc ($611k).
- Does Lair Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lair Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lair Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berry Foundation Inc, Wichita Foundation, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353.
- Where is Lair Foundation based?
- Lair Foundation is based in KS.
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