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S Jim & Darla Farha Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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S Jim & Darla Farha Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0178% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$218kEducation$65kCrime & Legal$40kPublic Benefit$15kReligion$15kHealth$13kYouth Development$8kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$631k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Clause 40 Foundation$20,000
Institute For Humane Studies$12,500
Stand Together Foundation$12,500
AMIkids Foundation$5,000
Greater Wichita YMCA$5,000
St George Orthodox Cathedral$5,000
Kansas Policy Institute$5,000
Victory in the Valley Inc$5,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of SC Kansas$2,500
Wichita Art Museum$2,500
St Jude Children's Research Hospital$1,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $218k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Greater Wichita YMCA: $213k → 16%Greater Wichita YMCA: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 8 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+13%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311)
    2× · 2023–2024 · $218k · revenue +1%
  • KP
    KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +33%
  • IF
    Institute for Humane Studies
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +13%
  • WC
    WICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
National Civil Justice Institute

The objectives and goals of the institute shall be to receive and administer funds for the purpose of providing and supporting educational programs for lawyers, legal academics, and members of the judiciary, conferences and publications…

—
2
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Ks

The misson of the aclu foundation of kansas is to protect and defend the constitutional rights and civil liberties of every individual in kansas regardless of creed, race, religion or other labeling through education, advocacy, and…

Civil Rights
3
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc

The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.

Public Benefit
4
Institute for Justice

Through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research, the institute for justice (ij) advances a rule of law under which individuals can control their destinies as free and responsible members of society. ij…

Civil Rights
5
Hudson Institute Inc

Hudson Institute is a research organization promoting American leadership for a secure, free, and prosperous future.

—
6
University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute

Promoting and aiding in the fulfillment of scientific research, educational, and service functions of the university of kansas medical center. manages grants and contracts for projects conducted by principal investigators who serve as…

Health
7
Kansas Health Institute

Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.

Science & Tech
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas

To protect and defend the constitutional rights and civil liberties of every individual in kansas regardless of creed, race, religion, gender identification, or class.

—
9
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
10
Ku Center for Technology Commercialization Inc

Kuctc is organized to facilitate and support the research and technology transfer operations of the university of kansas and its affiliated tax-exempt research corporations or other tax exempt organizations qualified under section…

Education
11
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
12
Kansas City Art Institute

The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stand Together Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Wichita Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SEE: $1,171,800 · OtherSEE+6 more: $60,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311): $217,500 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S…KANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $40,000 · Education+1 more: $1,250 · EducationCLAUSE 40 FOUNDATION: $40,000 · Crime & LegalStand Together Foundation: $12,500 · Public BenefitWichita Art Museum Inc: $5,000 · Arts & CultureST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 · Health
Other$1,231,800Human Services$217,500Education$41,250Crime & Legal$40,000Public Benefit$12,500Arts & Culture$5,000Health$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311): $217,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS POLICY INSTITUTE: $40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCLAUSE 40 FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 30% of budgetInstitute for Humane Studies: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStand Together Foundation: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORY IN THE VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWichita Art Museum Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JAMES MADISON INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY STUDIES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

The Todd S Farha Foun…Berry Foundation IncDonors Trust IncTextron Charitable Tr…Servant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Todd S Farha FoundationFL26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Todd S Farha Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization S Jim & Darla Farha Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S Jim & Darla Farha Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    Find your warmest path to S Jim & Darla Farha Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 14 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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