· Private foundation
Paul Ross Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUADELUPE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| CAIRN HEALTH INC | $10,000 |
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| ICT STREET TEAM (NURSES GLOBAL OUTREACH) | $8,611 |
| LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER | $8,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SO CENTRAL KS | $8,000 |
| LEARN AND GROW CHILD CARE CENTER | $7,000 |
| WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $5,000 |
| HEARTSPRING | $5,000 |
| UNITED METHODIST OPEN DOOR | $5,000 |
| DONORS CHOOSE | $5,000 |
| HARRY HYNES MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC | $5,000 |
| ST KATHERINE DREXAL FUND | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% of those 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.
47 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- LCLAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +301%
- GCGuadalupe Clinic Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +103%
- HMHeart Ministries Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $59k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- FUFAIRFIELD USD #310one grant, 2024 · $10k
- TTKAAMone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
To promote and improve the quality of life by providing integrated healthcare services to the entire community in the name and spirit of Christ
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
At wichita habitat for humanity, we believe everyone deserves the strength, stability, and independence that comes with a safe, affordable home. we partner with hardworking individuals and families in our community, empowering them to…
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Stabilize, revitalize, and reinvest in communities through improved housing and other related developments. activities include lending, housing & commercial development, real estate sales, homebuyer education programs, and community…
To assist low-income homeowners of south central kansas to repair/rehabilitate their homes; to assist qualified low-income residents of south central kansas to purchase homes or to build low-cost homes for these residents; and to provide…
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emberhope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chamber Music At the Barn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 75 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 CAIRN HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Heart Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds LEARN & GROW CHILD CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED METHODIST OPEN DOOR ↗
- Who funds PASSAGEWAYS LTD ↗
- Who funds HOME TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD SCHOOL OF LIBERAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds HEARTSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA ↗
- Who funds CHILD START INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds EMBERHOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds MCPHERSON HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Chamber Music At The Barn Inc ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds AGAPE'CARE CRADLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPENET INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY MINISTRIES INC ↗
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: Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · United Way of the Plains Inc · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Belin Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Berry Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc
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 Paul Ross Charitable Foundation 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.
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