· Private foundation
Shaw Family Foundation
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 $10k17 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWNMENT ASSOCI | $16,250 |
| EXPLORATION PLACE | $8,500 |
| UNION RESCUE MISSION OF WITCHITA | $7,000 |
| WICHITA CHILDRENS HOME | $6,400 |
| WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| MUSIC THEATER OF WICHITA | $6,000 |
| WICHITA ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| SEDGEWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTE | $5,000 |
| ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE | $5,000 |
| BOTANICA | $5,000 |
| KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM | $2,750 |
| TRINITY CATHOLIC JRSR HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL AND ACADEMIC | $2,500 |
| ST LOUIS OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +69% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- EPEXPLORATION PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +187%
- TWTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +99%
- WAWichita Art Museum Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- SCSEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $4k
- KCKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +4%
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.
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
To advocate for education professionals and to unite our members, kansans, and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
Wplf seeks private charitable support to create young readers, ensure digital inclusion, and provide equitable access to information. wplf's sole purpose is to create a margin of excellence at wichita public library.
Wichita area sexual assault center works with individuals and communities through comprehensive services and education to create a culture of intolerance for sexual violence and an atmosphere of healing for those impacted by it.
Health education & museum.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Louis Crisis Nursery and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors 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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 47 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
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.
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS OVARIAN CANCER AWARENESS ↗
- Who funds KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds HUTCHINSON FRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF RENO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds READY READERS ↗
- Who funds THE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS ↗
- Who funds TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
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: Berry Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Ima Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Annie Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · DeVore Foundation Inc · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Garvey Kansas 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 Shaw Family Foundation 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.
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