Kansas · Private foundation
McFadden Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $404k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 50
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $353k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $91,126
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 62
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations McFadden Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 49 | $353k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 62 | $377k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $430k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $372k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 57 | $439k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas State University | $62,700 | 5 | n/a |
| Bull City Community Foundation Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Usd 272 | $10,020 | 2 | n/a |
| Bringing It Home to Oz | $10,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Osborne Community Foundation Inc | $9,775 | 3 | n/a |
| Liberty University Inc | $9,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Downs Art Council | $8,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Teen Challenge of the Midwest Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Friends University | $7,950 | 3 | 0% |
| Sterling College | $7,700 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas State University | $62,700 | 5 | n/a |
| Bull City Community Foundation Inc | $12,500 | 2 | 6% |
| Usd 272 | $10,020 | 2 | n/a |
| Bringing It Home to Oz | $10,000 | 2 | 13% |
| Osborne Community Foundation Inc | $9,775 | 3 | n/a |
| Liberty University Inc | $9,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Downs Art Council | $8,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Teen Challenge of the Midwest Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Friends University | $7,950 | 3 | 0% |
| Sterling College | $7,700 | 3 | 0% |
| Community Market Place Inc | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| New Life Church of Natoma | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nck Outdoors Inc | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bethel College | $5,200 | 3 | 0% |
| North Central Kansas Outdoor Youth Fair Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Kansas Wesleyan University | $3,300 | 2 | 0% |
| Barclay College | $3,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Downs High School Alumni Association Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spring Arbor University | $1,800 | 1 | 0% |
| McPherson College | $1,400 | 1 | 0% |
| Natoma Community Center Inc | $1,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Midamerica Nazarene University | $800 | 1 | 0% |
| Tabor College | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget McFadden Charitable Trust 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: 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
How this is measured
About McFadden Charitable Trust
- How much does McFadden Charitable Trust give?
- McFadden Charitable Trust reported 50 itemized grants totaling $353,230, out of $404,230 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 62 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does McFadden Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (54%), Religion (15%), Health (13%).
- Who are McFadden Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Kansas State University ($63k), Bull City Community Foundation Inc ($13k), Usd 272 ($10k).
- Does McFadden Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McFadden Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as McFadden Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sarver Charitable Trust, Greater Salina Community Foundation, Kansas Independent College Association.
- Where is McFadden Charitable Trust based?
- McFadden Charitable Trust is based in KS.
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