Kansas · Private foundation
Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation
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.
- $57k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 19
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $795k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 17 | $57k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $32k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $53k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $43k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $34k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $20k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Guadalupe Clinic Inc | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Collin County Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Westside Good Neighbor Center | $12,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Starkey Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Christian Association of Youth Mentoring Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Club Parkinsons Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities Inc | $29,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Guadalupe Clinic Inc | $23,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $18,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of Collin County Inc | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Westside Good Neighbor Center | $12,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Starkey Inc | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Christian Association of Youth Mentoring Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Club Parkinsons Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Newman University Inc | $5,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hope Ranch for Women Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| River Community Church | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Museum of World Treasures Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Child Advocacy Center of Sedgwick County | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Les and Sissy Donovan 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: Ima Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc · Wichita Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Devlin Family Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
How this is measured
About Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation
- How much does Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation give?
- Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $57,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (22%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Health (20%).
- Who are Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Catholic Charities Inc ($29k), Guadalupe Clinic Inc ($23k), Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc ($18k).
- Does Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation 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 Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ima Foundation, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353, Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation based?
- Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation is based in KS.
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