Kansas · Private foundation
Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 56% of the organizations Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 9 | $11k | 44% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $9k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $2k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $46k | 71% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $131k | 63% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $5k | 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita Repertory Theater Inc | $138,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Wichita Grand Opera Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Independent Institute | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Opera Kansas | $5,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Kansas Humane Society of Wichita Kansas | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas Policy Institute | $4,292 | 2 | 0% |
| Mark Arts Inc | $3,341 | 6 | 0% |
| Wichita Montessori School Inc | $3,240 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunrise Christian Academy Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cedars Camps Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wichita Repertory Theater Inc | $138,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Wichita Grand Opera Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Independent Institute | $5,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Opera Kansas | $5,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Kansas Humane Society of Wichita Kansas | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kansas Policy Institute | $4,292 | 2 | 0% |
| Mark Arts Inc | $3,341 | 6 | 0% |
| Wichita Montessori School Inc | $3,240 | 2 | 0% |
| Sunrise Christian Academy Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Cedars Camps Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Christian Performance Theatre Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Wichita Police and Fire Foundation | $1,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Music Theatre Wichita | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ballet Wichita Inc | $600 | 1 | 0% |
| Historic Wichita Cowtown Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita State University Foundation | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($24k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Garvey Kansas Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · DeVore Foundation Inc · Laham Family Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Annie Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Bruce G Cochener Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust with peer funders
About Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust
- How much does Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust give?
- Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust reported 9 grants totaling $10,990 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (79%), Education (11%), Philanthropy (3%).
- Who are Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wichita Repertory Theater Inc ($138k), Wichita Grand Opera Inc ($30k), The Independent Institute ($6k).
- Does Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berry Foundation Inc, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353, Garvey Kansas Foundation.
- Where is Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust based?
- Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust is based in KS.
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