Kansas · Private foundation
Sarver Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $761k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 108
- Grants FY2025
- 113
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $78,437
- Organizations funded a year
- 113 to 150
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Sarver Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureReligionOther
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.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 108 | $761k | 26% |
| FY2024 | 113 | $594k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 123 | $621k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 120 | $704k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 117 | $687k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 121 | $729k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 130 | $621k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 150 | $700k | 41% |
97% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Education$1.9MReligion$1.4MHealth$1.3MHuman Services$674kPublic Benefit$204kArts & Culture$165kPhilanthropy$111kFood & Nutrition$84kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Hays State University Foundation | $586,551 | 9 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $586,551 | 9 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $521,941 | 8 | 0% |
| City of Osborne | $189,287 | 9 | n/a |
| Osborne County Memorial Hospital | $104,648 | 6 | n/a |
| Osborne Community Foundation Inc | $82,325 | 7 | n/a |
| Solomon Valley Transportation Inc | $56,000 | 6 | 5% |
| North Central Kansas Outdoor Youth Fair Inc | $23,000 | 7 | 25% |
| New Life Church of Natoma | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bringing It Home to Oz | $17,700 | 5 | 13% |
Show all 30 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Hays State University Foundation | $586,551 | 9 | 0% |
| Salvation Army | $586,551 | 9 | n/a |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $521,941 | 8 | 0% |
| City of Osborne | $189,287 | 9 | n/a |
| Osborne County Memorial Hospital | $104,648 | 6 | n/a |
| Osborne Community Foundation Inc | $82,325 | 7 | n/a |
| Solomon Valley Transportation Inc | $56,000 | 6 | 5% |
| North Central Kansas Outdoor Youth Fair Inc | $23,000 | 7 | 25% |
| New Life Church of Natoma | $19,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bringing It Home to Oz | $17,700 | 5 | 13% |
| Downs Art Council | $17,500 | 9 | 15% |
| Teen Challenge of the Midwest Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Bull City Community Foundation Inc | $12,086 | 3 | 4% |
| Smoky Hills Public Television Corp | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Nation Builders Ministries Inc | $7,371 | 2 | 4% |
| Usd 272 | $6,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Market Place Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Osborne County Veterans Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Natoma Heritage Seekers Inc | $3,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas Inc | $2,780 | 2 | 0% |
| Alton Pride | $2,723 | 4 | n/a |
| Western Kansas Child Advocacy Center | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Nck Outdoors Inc | $2,375 | 1 | n/a |
| Heartchoices Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Downs High School Alumni Association Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Downs Community Connection | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Osborne County Museum Inc | $1,950 | 2 | n/a |
| Natoma Community Center Inc | $1,500 | 2 | n/a |
| Options Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Downs Historical Society | $750 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 448 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sarver Charitable Trust supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.
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.
Greater Salina Community FoundationKS33.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · McFadden Charitable Trust · Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · Dane G Hansen Foundation · 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.
About Sarver Charitable Trust
- How much does Sarver Charitable Trust give?
- Sarver Charitable Trust reported 108 grants totaling $760,612 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 113 and 150 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Sarver Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Religion (22%), Health (21%).
- Who are Sarver Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Fort Hays State University Foundation ($587k), Salvation Army ($587k), Blood Cancer United Inc ($522k).
- Does Sarver Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Sarver Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Sarver Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Salina Community Foundation, McFadden Charitable Trust, Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation.
- Where is Sarver Charitable Trust based?
- Sarver Charitable Trust is based in KS.
Play a game based on Sarver’s filings →
More from the funding graph
The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home