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· Private foundation
SARVER CHARITABLE TRUST
This foundation accepts unsolicited grant applications.
$594k
Granted FY2024
113
Grants
2
Communities
$59k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 97% of SARVER CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
justinaustinmadisonfood bankrenkenmickcady
2019
alumnileecadydrakejennapetersonshay
2020
jacobtanisdrakesprickjoshuaketterengler
2021
lakesidesprickzeigler
2022
stulleberlelakesidecartergradytylersarah
2023
cooperwalshellisbaleseberlefallispayton
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 113 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k107 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $294k
$2,200
Median grant
2
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
- LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$58,829
- ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH$58,829
- THE SALVATION ARMY$58,829
- FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI$58,829
- AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$58,829
- OSBORNE COUNTY TREASURER$15,500
- BULL CITY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,586
- GRACE BRETHREN CHURCH OF PORTIS$6,500
- SOLOMON VALLEY TRANSPORTATION$6,000
- OSBORNE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,400
- OSBORNE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE (FOOD$5,000
- ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH OSBORNE$5,000
- CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF DOWNS$5,000
- BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH OF OSBORNE$5,000
- UNITED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF OSBORNE$5,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.7M · 246 repeat orgs$565k to everyone else
246 repeat relationships — 81 still active in FY2024, 165 since wound down; 32 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
246
174
Total granted
$4.7M
$491k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+22%
+105%
Still filing today
2%
2%
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
Arts & CultureCrime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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
- SVSOLOMON VALLEY TRANSPORTATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +22%
- BIBRINGING IT HOME TO OZ INC5× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +22%
- NBNATION BUILDERS MINISTRIES2× · 2022–2023 · $7k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- LLLUKEMIA & LYMPOHOMA SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $65k
FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $62k · revenue +105%- OCOSBORNE COUNTY KANSASone grant, 2020 · $48k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Heart of America Teen Challenge of Greater Kansas
Helping men 16 yrs and older with life controlling problems
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2
North Central Kansas Housing
Community Improvement
3
Alco Halfway House
Provide housing and residential care for recovering alcoholic
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4
Tri-State Teen Challenge
A 12-15 month residential program to help men ages 18-64 become free from life controlling addictions.
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5
Community Health Center of Se Kansas
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
Health
6
Heart of Kansas Family Health Care Inc
To provide health care to those who do not qualify for the medicaid program and do not have the financial resources to purchase insurance or health care services themselves.
Health
7
Freedom Center
Christian based residential rehab program for men with drug addiction.
Health
8
The Hope Center of Pratt Ks
Provide emergency assistance including medications, utilities, rent, lodging, and transportation to needy people of the pratt ks area.
Human Services
9
Mercy Kansas Communities
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
Health
10
Southern Okla Addiction Recovery Inc
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.
Health
11
Madison County House of Hope Inc
Madison County House Of Hope is an organization created to assist those dealing with alcoholism and drug addiction to find a new life and purpose in and through Jesus Christ, develop self-discipline and skills to reenter society. Daily…
Human Services
12
Ottawa Community Partnership Inc
The purpose of the organization is to facilitate the downtown revitalization of ottawa kansas in order to drive the community's future economic growth and positively affect housing and community development.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Solomon Valley Transportation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bringing It Home to Oz. 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 20 years old; the field is 41. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 29% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 4% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/22
the rest of the field
4%
2/46
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.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$5,139,717Education$62,311Human Services$46,000Community Improvement$17,700Arts & Culture$15,500Philanthropy$9,086Religion$7,371
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.
Greater Salina Community FoundationKS22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Greater Salina Community Foundation · Greater Northwest Kansas Community · 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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DOWNS ART COUNCIL.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 481153623 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on DOWNS ART COUNCIL, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Sarver Charitable Trust?
Find your warmest path to Sarver Charitable Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines