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Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$15k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2026
9
Organizations funded FY2025
44%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,074
Largest grant, FY2026
$4,074
Organizations funded a year
5 to 9
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
2
Total assets, FY2026
$249k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 44% of the organizations Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationOther
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
FY2026still arriving8$15k13%
FY20259$14k44%
FY20248$15k38%
FY20235$17k20%
FY20227$16k14%
FY20216$14k50%
FY20207$14k29%
FY20197$14k14%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Education$146kHealth$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kansas State University$28,90310n/a
Southern College of Optometry$6,88440%
Drake University$4,50030%
Hastings College$2,22920%
Kansas Wesleyan University$1,80020%
Creighton University$1,50010%
Grand Canyon University$1,0851n/a
Sterling College$1,00010%
Benedictine College$1,00010%
Johnson County Community College$1,0001n/a
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All grantees of Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kansas State University$28,90310n/a
Southern College of Optometry$6,88440%
Drake University$4,50030%
Hastings College$2,22920%
Kansas Wesleyan University$1,80020%
Creighton University$1,50010%
Grand Canyon University$1,0851n/a
Sterling College$1,00010%
Benedictine College$1,00010%
Johnson County Community College$1,0001n/a
Boise Bible College Inc$1,00010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouthern College of Optometry: $6,884 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDrake University: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHastings College: $2,229 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKansas Wesleyan University: $1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCreighton University: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSterling College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBenedictine College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoise Bible College Inc: $1,000 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 8.

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.

Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship TrustKS15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust · Bill & Julia Thomas Charitable Trust · Tulsa Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust

How much does Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust give?
Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust reported 8 grants totaling $15,297 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (98%), Health (2%).
Who are Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Kansas State University ($29k), Southern College of Optometry ($7k), Drake University ($5k).
Does Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Margaret Nelson Castle College Scholarship Trust, Bill & Julia Thomas Charitable Trust, Tulsa Community Foundation.
Where is Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust based?
Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust 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 27 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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