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The Devlin Family 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 $10k22 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| SHERIDAN CO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE LORD'S DINER | $5,000 |
| CEREBRAL PALSEY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE KANSAS WIDLIFE EXHIBIT | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| EMPORIA EXPRESS SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $1,000 |
| MUSIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FIRST TEE GREATER WICHITA | $1,000 |
| HOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH & ACADEMY | $600 |
| ELK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| GUADELUPE CLINIC | $500 |
| CENTRAL KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500 |
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, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +24% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 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, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- TTTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +68%
- GCGREENWOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2024 · $3k · revenue +24%
- TWTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME3× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- COCity of Augustaone grant, 2023 · $5k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -21%
- AAAUGUSTA AMERICAN LEGION POST 189one grant, 2022 · $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.
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
To support, assist and promote the interests and welfare of the programs and activities of the catholic diocese of wichita which provide health care services and health education to poor, distressed and underprivileged individuals.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
At wichita habitat for humanity, we believe everyone deserves the strength, stability, and independence that comes with a safe, affordable home. we partner with hardworking individuals and families in our community, empowering them to…
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.
The kansas children's foundation is dedicated to providing resources including financial and emotional support to children and families across the state of kansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita 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 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 60 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOLDED FLAG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD COUNTY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COSMOSPHERE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds DEAR NEIGHBOR MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP WOOD YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS ↗
- Who funds MUSIC YOUTH PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPENET 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: Wichita Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc · Kansas Health Foundation · Ima Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · Deboer Foundation Inc · Belin Foundation · Bruce G Cochener 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 The Devlin 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.
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% 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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