· Private foundation
Lusk 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,438 |
| THE TREEHOUSE | $2,000 |
| WICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ANDOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BLUE SKY RANCH | $2,000 |
| KMUW | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ANDOVER SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| SIMPLY HYGIENE | $1,938 |
| WICHITA CHILDRENS HOME | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,500 |
| WICHITA'S LITTLEST HEROS | $1,000 |
| EAST HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TPTHE PANDO INITIATIVE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +42%
- WAWICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC3× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +26%
- GTGIVING THE BASICS INC3× · 2021–2023 · $5k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- PFPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +179%
- ODOPEN DOOR MINISTRIESone grant, 2020 · $1k
- CACHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK CTYone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The organization is dedicated to providing quality, comprehensive services to pregnant women, infants, and toddlers. teaming with other agencies enables them to help each child and family achieve social competency. early head start…
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Preschool serving children ages 2 to 6
We seek to provide a superior educational experience for children ages 3 to 11, utilizing the montessori methods of teaching and learning. we address the intellectual, emotional, physical and social growth of each child.
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
To advocate for education professionals and to unite our members, kansans, and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities
We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.
To inspire children, connect families, and build community through exploration, exhibits, programming, and play.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichitas Littlest Heroes and the most unlike its peers is Bridgets Cradles 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 35 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 11% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 THE PANDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY HYGIENE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ANDOVER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds WICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds RISE UP FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITAS LITTLEST HEROES ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE SKY RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA CHILDREN'S THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGETS CRADLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNLIGHT CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY IN THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
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 · 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
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 Lusk 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.
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