· Private foundation
Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $263k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS | $250,000 |
| GRANDVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH CHILDREN'S | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| THE LORD'S DINER | $25,000 |
| KANSAS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SG COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SIMPLY HYGIENE | $25,000 |
| WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER | $12,500 |
| GUADALUPE CLINIC | $10,000 |
| ENVISION INC | $10,000 |
| LEAGUE 42 | $10,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF GREATER WICHITA | $10,000 |
| TOP EARLY LEARNING CENTERS | $10,000 |
| THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $803k · revenue +17%
- WCWICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $180k · revenue +46%
- GCGuadalupe Clinic Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- EEMPOWERone grant, 2024 · $30k
- APARNOLD PALMER EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TWTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOMEone grant, 2023 · $14k · revenue -6%
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
On behalf of the university of kansas school of medicine-wichita, wcgme administers the graduate medical education program for resident physicians in the city of wichita, kansas. wcgme's involvement in graduate medical education in wichita…
To create, maintain, and enhance relationships among wichita state university alumni, current and prospective students, faculty, staff, and friends in order to foster loyalty, interest, and support for the university and for one another.
The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
To engage in grant making to medical educational organizations and related charitable activities in the area of eye disease and vision disorder, and the care and treatment thereof.
Wplf seeks private charitable support to create young readers, ensure digital inclusion, and provide equitable access to information. wplf's sole purpose is to create a margin of excellence at wichita public library.
The wichita foundation invests in people and ideas to spark change, and envisions a place where all wichitans thrive and belong. as community conveners, the foundation leads with courage, grows equitable relationships, ignites philanthropy…
The mission of Wichita Christian School is to provide a quality education in a Christian environment that inspires hearts, minds, and souls for successful living.
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
Provide a classical and biblically-based education to young people in elementary and secondary grade levels.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kansas State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 63 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 71 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 UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds ENVISION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY HYGIENE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds Kansas Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE 42 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds DOC'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BUTLER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
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: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Berry Foundation Inc · Ima Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Wichita Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Mann Family Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Servant Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · Lattner Family 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 Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trust 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.
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
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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