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The Fidelity Bank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Human Services$498kHealth$393kArts & Culture$304kEducation$285kAnimals$278kPhilanthropy$242kYouth Development$183kHousing & Shelter$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $54k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $326k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $680k
$16,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wichita Habitat for Humanity$100,000
HopeNet$100,000
Hunter Health Clinic Inc$100,000
EmberHope Youthville$100,000
American Red Cross$70,000
Wichita Family Crisis Center$60,000
KU Endowment$50,000
Orpheum Performing Arts Center Ltd$50,000
Sedgwick County Zoo$50,000
KPTS$40,000
United Way of the Plains$40,000
United Way of the Plains$40,000
Mulberry Arts Inc$30,000
Wichita Habitat for Humanity$30,000
Starkey Inc$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $569k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EmberHope Youthville: $100k → 9%CAMP WOOD - YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $4k → 11%Empower Evergreen: $20k → 16%Empower Evergreen: $20k → 16%Assistance League of Wichita: $5k → 16%WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $60k → 16%Wichita Family Crisis Center: $60k → 16%WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $60k → 16%Wichita Family Crisis Center: $60k → 16%The Treehouse: $10k → 16%Rainbows United: $10k → 16%GREATER WICHITA YMCA: $25k → 16%WICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK: $8k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $13k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $13k → 16%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $13k → 16%Envision Foundation: $10k → 16%Envision Foundation: $10k → 16%Starkey Inc: $25k → 16%CENTER CITY ACADEMY: $20k → 16%STARKEY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 32 repeat orgs$808k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
50

Total granted

$1.9M
$400k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+13%

Still filing today

81%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $408k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $215k · revenue +8%
  • HH
    HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +52%
  • HI
    HOPENET INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $110k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • YA
    YMCA AT WSU INNOVATION CAMPUS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • HS
    HOLY SAVIOR
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TY
    THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311)
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Wichita Indochinese Center

Wichita indochinese center inc's mission is to teach english, employability skills, and life skills to any adult whose first language is not english and to help find jobs for those seeking work.

Education
2
Opportunity Wichita Inc

Engage community partners (including local governments, nonprofit organizations, and public institutions) to develop a community vision to address education, quality of life, infrastructure, workforce, and economic development and…

Community Improvement
3
Wichitas Littlest Heroes

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…

Human Services
4
Wichita Falls Faith Mission Inc

To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.

Religion
5
Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc

To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.

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6
Wichita Downtown Development Corporation

The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.

Community Improvement
7
Wichita County Economic Development

To improve the quality of life for residents of wichita county, ks through community and economic development activities.

Community Improvement
8
Family Promise of Greater Wichita

To empower families with children to overcome homelessness and housing insecurity through a holistic approach, community involvement, and sustainable solutions.

Human Services
9
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
10
Kansas Children's Discovery Center Inc

The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.

Arts & Culture
11
Wichita Eye Foundation

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.

Health
12
Wichita County Heritage Society Dba Kell House Heritage Center

Inspire and educate the community to engage in preservation through the kell house heritage center.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Foundation and the most unlike its peers is La Familia Senior Community Center. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr16%18%10–20yr13%16%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr21%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr16%7%10–20yr13%17%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr21%46%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/74
the rest of the field
12%
272/2,298

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 99 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
41/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sedgwick County Zoo — $250,000 · OtherSedgwick County ZooHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC — $112,500 · OtherHUNTER HEALTH CLINICAmerican Red Cross — $70,000 · OtherAmerican Red CrossHOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherKU Endowment — $50,000 · Other+52 more — $434,801 · Other+52 moreWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $240,000 · Human ServicesWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CE…EMBERHOPE INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesEMBERHOPE INCENVISION FOUNDATION INC — $57,500 · Human ServicesENVISION FOUNDATION INCEMPOWER EVERGREEN INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER EVERGREEN INCSTARKEY INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTARKEY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesCENTER CITY ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · Human Services+6 more — $41,500 · Human Services+6 moreKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE — $185,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBLIC T…EXPLORATION PLACE INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORATION PLA…ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD — $50,000 · Arts & CultureORPHEUM PERFORM…MULBERRY ARTS INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureMULBERRY ARTS I…Wichita Art Museum Inc — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWichita Art Mus…KANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC — $14,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $2,500 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC — $215,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…WICHITA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $11,500 · PhilanthropyPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC — $100,000 · EducationPHILLIPS …WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 · EducationWICHITA S…CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC — $26,280 · EducationCHILDREN …WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · EducationWICHITA P…KANSAS HISPANIC EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $19,500 · EducationKANSAS HI…WICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Education+2 more — $7,500 · EducationWICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $160,000 · Housing & ShelterPASSAGEWAYS LTD — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPENET INC — $110,300 · HealthWICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC — $15,000 · HealthEPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH — $15,000 · HealthKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $14,000 · Health+3 more — $9,000 · Health
Other$967,301Human Services$574,000Arts & Culture$366,500Philanthropy$236,500Education$215,780Housing & Shelter$170,000Health$163,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER — $240,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC — $215,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE — $185,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $160,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC — $112,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPENET INC — $110,300 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetEMBERHOPE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetEXPLORATION PLACE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetENVISION FOUNDATION INC — $57,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetEMPOWER EVERGREEN INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC — $26,280 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSTARKEY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311) — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOTANICA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWICHITA TOP CHILDRENS FUND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTARKEY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetGuadalupe Clinic Inc — $20,830 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER CITY ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetWichita Art Museum Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS HISPANIC EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION — $19,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetBike Walk Wichita Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS AVIATION MUSEUM INC — $14,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetICT SOS — $13,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetYOUTH HORIZONS INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRAINBOWS UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPASSAGEWAYS LTD — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWICHITA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetICT FOOD RESCUE INC — $9,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetRISE UP FOR YOUTH INC — $8,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHEROES ACADEMY INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc — $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOVE LIKE REMI FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY OF WICHITA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCASA OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWICHITA ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED METHODIST OPEN DOOR — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Wichita FoundationUnited Way of the Pla…Dwane L and Velma Lun…Berry Foundation IncTextron Charitable Tr…Lattner Family Founda…Belin FoundationKansas Health Foundat…Goebel Family-Star Lu…Ima FoundationK T Wiedemann Foundat…Daniel J Taylor Famil…
Wichita FoundationKS98.1× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wichita Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Belin Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Ima Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable 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 Fidelity Bank 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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