· Private foundation
The Charles and Joanne McIlwaine Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WICHITA INC | $25,000 |
| SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS SMORGASCHORUS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| THE QUIVIRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| EXPLORATION PLACE | $10,000 |
| THE WICHITA-SEDWICK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME | $10,000 |
| WICHITA STATE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREAT PLAINS NATURE CENTER | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY - KANSAS CHAPTER | $6,000 |
| KANSAS SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CHALLENGES | $5,000 |
| KANSAS COUNCIL FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
21 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WICHITA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +27%
- QCQUIVIRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $75k · revenue +104%
- TWTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- WEWICHITA EAST HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPSone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath law.
Building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
Girl scouts is the premier leadership development program for all girls ages 5 - 17. our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. we champion girl ambition by helping girls…
Ensuring that all children and youth can reach their full potential for physical, mental, emotional, and social health, growing up safe, strong, and with confidence in the future.
The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. (continued on schedule o)programs of scouting america and grand…
The junior league of kansas city, missouri (jlkcmo) is a 501(c)(3) organziation of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…
Our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
To promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of america, the…
Girl scouting builds girls* of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.
The mission of the boy scouts of america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Pando Initiative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kansas Society for Children With Challenges. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 23 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds QUIVIRA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH CHALLENGES ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANDO INITIATIVE 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: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Berry Foundation Inc · Wichita Foundation · Spirit Charity Classic Inc · Belin Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Ima Foundation · Servant Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Charles and Joanne McIlwaine 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Charles and Joanne McIlwaine Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Charles and Joanne McIlwaine Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.