· 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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CEDARS CAMPS | $2,500 |
| WICHITA MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $2,240 |
| INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
| WICHITA REPERTORY THEATER | $1,000 |
| WICHITA POLICE & FIRE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ARTS CAPACITY | $500 |
| HISTORIC WICHITA COWTOWN INC | $500 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TITHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE6× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +185%
- KPKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +135%
- SCSUNRISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC2× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- WGWICHITA GRAND OPERA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +104%
- OKOPERA KANSASone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -46%
- KHKANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSASgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +27%
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.
Kansas City Public Theatre provides access to the arts through year-round theatre entertainment free of charge to the public This mission is carried out in two activities first by producing aesthetically and ideologically diverse new works…
To provide educational programs to children in the community with regard to performing arts.
Connecting our community through live arts experiences that entertain, inspire, and engage
The mission of whitefield academy is to support parents by providing students with a top-tier academic foundation in a joyful, christ-centered community of classical learning.
Music/arts institute, greater kansas city's community school of performing arts, teaches students, young and old alike, to embrace beauty and professionalism in the arts. shaping tomorrow's performers is the task to which the distinguished…
Ballet productions presented to the public in the wichita falls area for their enjoyement and to promote the performing arts.
The performance of fine classical music in both public and education outreach program concerts, utilizing talented local musicians, and frequently in partnership with other arts and community organizations.
To inspire, entertain and open minds by creating transformative theatre experiences for all.
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.
The mission of the wichita symphony society is to enrich, educate, and entertain diverse audiences of all ages in our region through performances of orchestral music, thereby enhancing the vibrancy and vitality of wichita.
Midland festival ballet is a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote and present the art of classical ballet through education, performance, and outreach.
The mission of Wichita Christian School is to provide a quality education in a Christian environment that inspires hearts, minds, and souls for successful living.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ballet Wichita Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phillips Fundamental Learning Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 WICHITA REPERTORY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA GRAND OPERA INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OPERA KANSAS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds The Cedars Camps Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN PERFORMANCE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds Historic Wichita Cowtown Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
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 · 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
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 Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trust 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.