· Private foundation
The David and Debbi Elkouri Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of The David and Debbi Elkouri Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Treehouse | $1,500 |
| Christ the Savior Academy | $1,050 |
| The Order of St Ignatious | $1,000 |
| Hidden Hearts Foundation | $1,000 |
| University of Kansas Endowment | $1,000 |
| St George Cathedral | $580 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
| Junior League of Wichita | $125 |
| Three Heirarchs Orthodox Church | $100 |
| Fundamental Learning | $100 |
| St Elijah Church | $50 |
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, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +34% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CTCHRIST THE SAVIOR ACADEMY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +47%
- WCWICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2021 · $11k · revenue +117%
- TTTHE TREEHOUSE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $6k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -11%- RURAINBOWS UNITED INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +18%
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.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To engage in grant making to medical educational organizations and related charitable activities in the area of eye disease and vision disorder, and the care and treatment thereof.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
On behalf of the university of kansas school of medicine-wichita, wcgme administers the graduate medical education program for resident physicians in the city of wichita, kansas. wcgme's involvement in graduate medical education in wichita…
Provide a classical and biblically-based education to young people in elementary and secondary grade levels.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
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…
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
The mission of whitefield academy is to support parents by providing students with a top-tier academic foundation in a joyful, christ-centered community of classical learning.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Timothy P O'shaughnessy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 55 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 CHRIST THE SAVIOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INT'L ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS ELKS TRAINING CENTER FOR THE HANDICAPPED INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN HEARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE FOR EVERY STUDENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP CATANESE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FESTIVALS INC ↗
- Who funds DUI VICTIMS CENTER OF KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds TIMOTHY P O'SHAUGHNESSY FOUNDATION ↗
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: Laham Family Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Wichita Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · Ima Foundation · Tim and Tracy Farrell Foundation · Lair Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc
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 David and Debbi Elkouri 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.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
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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