· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA | $5,000 |
| THE LORD'S DINER | $5,000 |
| HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| GUADALUPE CLINIC INC | $5,000 |
| WESTSIDE GOOD NEIGHBOR CENTER | $4,000 |
| ST JUDE HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| STARKEY | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - HARBOR HOUSE | $2,000 |
| BISHOP CARROLL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME | $2,000 |
| CLUB PARKINSON'S | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GCGuadalupe Clinic Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $23k · revenue +103%
- KFKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +8%
- WGWestside Good Neighbor Center5× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF WORLD TREASURES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +39%
- CACHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +208%
- WFWSU FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $500
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide quality services to people of all faiths, backgrounds, and ethnicities in a manner that best serves the needs of the client.
Catholic care center strives to enhance the dignity and respect of all residents by offering competent, professional, and spiritually nourishing healthcare and supportive services. we strive to know the needs of our residents and provide…
To counsel, assist, educate, shelter, and train those persons who seek or need help and assistance
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
Children's home society of south dakota is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing trauma-informed services to children and families impacted by abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and mental health challenges. our mission is to…
The mission of healthcore clinic, inc is to provide quality family healthcare through improved access and a heightened and unrelenting focus on education and prevention.
Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.
The children's advocacy center of kansas (cacks) is committed to securing appropriate resources for ensuring the healthy establishment and sustainability of kansas child advocacy centers and the kansas chapter. cacks is committed to…
Our mission is to improve the lives of abused children in dallas county and provide national leadership on child abuse issues.
To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.
To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF COLLIN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Westside Good Neighbor Center ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STARKEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF YOUTH MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds Club Parkinsons Inc ↗
- Who funds NEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE RANCH FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF WORLD TREASURES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Les and Sissy Donovan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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