· Private foundation
Shaw Family Foundation
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 $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 |
| MUSIC THEATER OF WICHITA | $6,000 |
| WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTE | $5,000 |
| ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE | $5,000 |
| WICHITA ART MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BOTANICA | $5,000 |
| SEDGEWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $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 |
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 (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 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 +69% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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
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.
- 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 CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS CRISIS NURSERY ↗
- 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 TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMFORT CREW FOR MILITARY KIDS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Shaw Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Shaw Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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