· Private foundation
Paul Ross Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GUADELUPE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| BREAD OF LIFE | $10,000 |
| CAIRN HEALTH INC | $10,000 |
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| ICT STREET TEAM (NURSES GLOBAL OUTREACH) | $8,611 |
| MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION SO CENTRAL KS | $8,000 |
| LAWRENCE COMMUNITY SHELTER | $8,000 |
| LEARN AND GROW CHILD CARE CENTER | $7,000 |
| HARRY HYNES MEMORIAL HOSPICE INC | $5,000 |
| MCPHERSON HOUSING COALITION | $5,000 |
| PROJECT ACCESS | $5,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $5,000 |
| AGAPE CARE CRADLE | $5,000 |
| HUMANKIND | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 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.
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
How this is measured
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
- TTKAAMone grant, 2024 · $10k
- FUFAIRFIELD USD #310one grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $6k
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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.
- 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 HOPENET INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE'CARE CRADLE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVISION INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul Ross Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Ross Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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