· Private foundation
Sarver Charitable Trust
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 $10k99 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $421k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF OSBORNE | $78,437 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $68,542 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $68,542 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI | $68,542 |
| ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $68,542 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $68,542 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,440 |
| NEW LIFE CHURCH OF NATOMA | $14,000 |
| SOLOMON VALLEY TRANSPORTATION | $10,000 |
| CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF DOWNS | $9,500 |
| GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH OF PORTIS | $8,500 |
| ST MARYS CATHOLIC CHURCH OF DOWNS | $7,000 |
| PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF NATOMA | $7,000 |
| ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH OSBORNE | $7,000 |
| UNITED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF OSBORNE | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
266 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 186 since wound down; 28 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k 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
FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $587k · revenue +14%- SVSOLOMON VALLEY TRANSPORTATION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $56k · revenue +26%
- NCNORTH CENTRAL KANSAS OUTDOOR YOUTH FAIR INC7× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- LLLUKEMIA & LYMPOHOMA SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $65k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $48k
- TCTEEN CHALLENGE OF THE MIDWEST INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -98%
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.
Helping men 16 yrs and older with life controlling problems
Partnering for safe and healthy communities.
Mid-kansas community action program assists people in poverty move towards self-reliance through advocacy, education, training and housing in the counties we serve.
To provide long-term residential job programs for non-violent court ordered drug alcohol offenders in order to obtain and maintain abstinence as an alternative to incarceration.
To protect children in our community from physical and sexual abuse through education, advocacy, forensic , medical and mental health services.
To be a recognized leader in community mental health, respected for our clinical quality, innovation, and adaptation to a rapidly changing health care and social services environment.
To create and promote outdoor opportunities in kansas. the foundation seeks to be an active and growing contributor in conserving and perpetuating the land, the wild species and the rich beauty of kansas for the use and enjoyment of all.
Southlight healthcare provides access to high-quality mental health and substance use treatment, fostering a resilient community by supporting individuals in their recovery.
A 12-15 month residential program to help men ages 18-64 become free from life controlling addictions.
Our mission is to assist survivors and their children in learning to overcome the cycle of physical, sexual, mental, and emotional health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smoky Hills Public Television Corp and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 22 years old; the field is 35. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 22% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 478 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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: Greater Salina Community Foundation · McFadden Charitable Trust · Greater Northwest Kansas Community Foundation · Dane G Hansen Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Sarver 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.
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.