Kansas · Private foundation
Lusk Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $433k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Lusk Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 16 | $30k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $26k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $26k | 6% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $28k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $28k | 53% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $28k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastminster Presbyterian Church | $15,535 | 6 | n/a |
| The Pando Initiative Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Simply Hygiene Inc | $9,938 | 2 | 1% |
| The Foundation for Andover Schools | $7,000 | 6 | 3% |
| East Heights United Methodist Church | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Church of God in Christ | $5,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center Inc | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Giving the Basics Inc | $5,281 | 3 | 0% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $3,723 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eastminster Presbyterian Church | $15,535 | 6 | n/a |
| The Pando Initiative Inc | $12,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Simply Hygiene Inc | $9,938 | 2 | 1% |
| The Foundation for Andover Schools | $7,000 | 6 | 3% |
| East Heights United Methodist Church | $6,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Church of God in Christ | $5,750 | 2 | n/a |
| Wichita Area Sexual Assault Center Inc | $5,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Giving the Basics Inc | $5,281 | 3 | 0% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $3,723 | 3 | 0% |
| Rise Up for Youth Inc | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Exploration Place Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Treehouse Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Wichitas Littlest Heroes | $2,626 | 4 | 0% |
| Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Blue Sky Ranch Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita Children's Theatre Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bridgets Cradles Foundation | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Sunlight Children's Services Inc | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kidzcope Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Victory in the Valley Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Arts Partners Inc | $820 | 1 | 0% |
| Botanica Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($61k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lusk 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 · Servant Foundation · Beach Family Foundation Inc · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Ima Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation · Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Lusk Foundation
- How much does Lusk Foundation give?
- Lusk Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $29,876 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Lusk Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Human Services (19%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Lusk Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Eastminster Presbyterian Church ($16k), The Pando Initiative Inc ($12k), Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc ($10k).
- Does Lusk Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lusk Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lusk Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berry Foundation Inc, Wichita Foundation, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353.
- Where is Lusk Foundation based?
- Lusk Foundation is based in KS.
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