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Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$227k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
42%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$13,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.6M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$227k56%
FY202412$223k42%
FY20236$143k0%
FY20228$179k13%
FY20219$150k11%
FY20209$165k44%
FY201915$161k47%
FY201816$160k50%
76% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$230kAnimals$25kEnvironment$20kRecreation & Sports$10kHuman Services$830Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
MA
IN
OH
PA
MO
MD
KS
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc$500,000518%
Friends University$56,28080%
Newman University Inc$55,00090%
Wichita Collegiate School$45,00050%
Independent School Inc$40,00120%
Chamber Music At The Barn Inc$35,00059%
Wichita State University Foundation$30,00040%
Wichita Art Museum Inc$25,0001n/a
Music Theatre Wichita$25,00041%
Tanganyika Wildlife Foundation$25,0001n/a
Botanica Inc$20,00020%
University of Mississippi Foundation$2,50010%
Auburn University Foundation$2,50010%
Southern Methodist University$2,50010%
Rainbows United Inc$83010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($694k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWichita Public Library Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetFriends University: $56,280 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNewman University Inc: $55,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWichita Collegiate School: $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetIndependent School Inc: $40,001 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetChamber Music At The Barn Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetWichita State University Foundation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Theatre Wichita: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBotanica Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Mississippi Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAuburn University Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRainbows United Inc: $830 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

Lattner Family Foundation IncFL22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · DeVore Foundation Inc · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Annie Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Berry Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · Bonavia Family Charitable Trust · Koch Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc

How much does Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc give?
Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc reported 9 grants totaling $227,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (79%), Arts & Culture (15%), Animals (2%).
Who are Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc ($500k), Friends University ($56k), Newman University Inc ($55k).
Does Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lattner Family Foundation Inc, Ima Foundation, DeVore Foundation Inc.
Where is Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc based?
Naftzger Fund for Fine Arts Inc is based in KS.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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