· Private foundation
Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,074 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| CLOUD COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,149 |
| FORT HAYS TECH NORTH CENTRAL | $1,074 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-KEARNEY | $1,000 |
| EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER | $1,000 |
| KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2026, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SCSouthern College of Optometry4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +29%
DRAKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $5k · revenue +11%- HCHASTINGS COLLEGE2× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- CUCreighton Universityone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +18%
- PSPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $1k
- GCGrand Canyon Universityone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +18%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Orville L and Beverly Borgmann Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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