· Private foundation
Lair Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $345k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $150,000 |
| KANSAS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65,000 |
| RAINBOWS UNITED INC | $60,000 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION OF WICHITA INC | $35,000 |
| SHEPHERDS WAY INC | $30,000 |
| THE OPPORTUNITY PROJECT | $25,000 |
| WICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $15,200 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| LEAGUE 42 FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| EMPOWER | $10,000 |
| YOUNG LIFE WICHITA | $10,000 |
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, $1.5M) 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.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $161k 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 FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +85%- WFWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER4× · 2020–2025 · $620k · revenue +64%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $611k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- BFBPS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue 0%
- WFWSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
- W-WSU -ICAA FUNDone grant, 2017 · $39k
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.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
To engage in grant making to medical educational organizations and related charitable activities in the area of eye disease and vision disorder, and the care and treatment thereof.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichitas Littlest Heroes and the most unlike its peers is Bps Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 59 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 WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Kansas Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE 42 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KVC HOSPITALS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STARKEY INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CARPENTER PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HONORE ADVERSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SPY MUSEUM ↗
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: 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
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 Lair 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.