· Private foundation
Lusk Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EASTMINISTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $3,000 |
| WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,438 |
| WICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER | $2,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR ANDOVER SCHOOLS | $2,000 |
| THE TREEHOUSE | $2,000 |
| KMUW | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BLUE SKY RANCH | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ANDOVER PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| SIMPLY HYGIENE | $1,938 |
| WICHITA CHILDRENS HOME | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,500 |
| EAST HEIGHTS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
| WICHITA'S LITTLEST HEROS | $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, $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 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.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TPTHE PANDO INITIATIVE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $12k · revenue +42%
- WAWICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC3× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +49%
- 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
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.
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.
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 37 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lusk Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lusk Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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