· Private foundation
Sarver Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k99 grants · $285k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $421k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF OSBORNE | $78,437 |
| ST ALOYSIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH | $68,542 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $68,542 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $68,542 |
| FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATI | $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 |
| UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF ALTON | $7,000 |
| OSBORNE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE (FOOD | $7,000 |
| FAITH LUTHERN CHURCH OF OSBORNE | $7,000 |
| ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHURCH OSBORNE | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
No kill animal refuge for abused and homeless animals.
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.
A 12-15 month residential program to help men ages 18-64 become free from life controlling addictions.
To provide a residential self-help program to troubled men through education and counseling
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 478 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sarver Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sarver Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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