· Private foundation
McFadden Charitable Trust
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 50 grants below total $353,230 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $404,230 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k43 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $91k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OSBORNE CO MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $91,126 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $26,050 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $23,950 |
| CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF DOWNS | $12,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF OSBORNE | $11,700 |
| BULL CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OSBORNE CO FAIR ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| OSBORNE USD 392 | $9,300 |
| DOWNS MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| OSBORNE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE | $8,000 |
| GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH OF PORTIS | $7,500 |
| NORTH CENTRAL KS TECH COLLEGE | $7,500 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF ALTON | $6,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF DOWNS | $6,000 |
| NEW LIFE CHURCH OF NATOMA | $6,000 |
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.
71 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- BIBRINGING IT HOME TO OZ2× · 2021–2022 · $10k · revenue +77%
- LULIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +28%
- DADOWNS ART COUNCIL4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- OCOSBORNE CO FAIR BOARDone grant, 2019 · $130k
- OHOSBORNE HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- TCTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDWEST INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -98%
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.
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
Central christian college of kansas is a four-year, non-profit liberal arts college with the primary mission of offering a christ-centered education for character.
Nebraska wesleyan university is an academic community dedicated to intellectual and personal growth within the context of a liberal arts education and in an environment of christian concern.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends University and the most unlike its peers is Bringing It Home to Oz. 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 52 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
15 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. 15 of the 103 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.
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: Sarver Charitable Trust · Greater Salina Community Foundation · Kansas Independent College Association · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Ibm International Foundation · The Pete Henry Foundation · Tulsa Community Foundation · Robert & Ava Lee Maydew Scholarship Trust · Farmers Alliance Companies Charitable Foundation · David and Mary P Rush Educational Trust Co Donald Hoffman Trustee · Carrol & Darlene Booz Charitable Trust
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.