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The Fidelity Bank Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2026still arriving
45
Grants FY2026still arriving
4
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$498kHealth$393kArts & Culture$304kEducation$285kAnimals$278kPhilanthropy$242kYouth Development$183kHousing & Shelter$170kOther$0
02FY2026 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k11 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $361k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WICHITA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$110,000
WICHITA METRO CRIME COMMISSION$100,000
HOPE ENTERPRISE$100,000
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY$100,000
SHOWERUP$95,000
HEARTSPRING$83,334
DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY OF WICHITA$75,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA$72,000
EMPOWER EVERGREEN$70,000
WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME$69,587
KVC HOSPITALS$65,000
WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER$60,000
HOPENET INC$50,000
KANSAS FOOD BANK$50,000
ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $976k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EmberHope Youthville: $100k → 9%CAMP WOOD - YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $4k → 11%FOSTERADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%SHOWERUP: $95k → 10%EMPOWER EVERGREEN: $70k → 16%Empower Evergreen: $20k → 16%Empower Evergreen: $20k → 16%Assistance League of Wichita: $5k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA: $72k → 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%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%Envision Foundation: $10k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $70k → 16%Starkey Inc: $25k → 16%STARKEY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%CENTER CITY ACADEMY: $20k → 16%STARKEY INC: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 41 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2026, 18 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
57

Total granted

$2.5M
$686k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+3%

Still filing today

85%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureCrime & LegalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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%
  • HI
    HOPENET INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $160k · revenue +37%
  • HH
    HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $113k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • EI
    EMBERHOPE INC
    one grant, 2025 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • AR
    American Red Cross
    one grant, 2025 · $70k
  • KE
    KU Endowment
    one grant, 2025 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Wichita Falls Faith Mission Inc

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

Religion
4
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
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
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
9
Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Association

To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county

Arts & Culture
10
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
11
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
12
Wichita Collegiate School

We exist to inspire all students to be the best versions of themselves through a transformative education grounded in academic excellence within our inclusive community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 120 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/88
Grantees still filing
58/88
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $300,000 · Human ServicesWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CEN…EMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER EVERGREEN INCEMBERHOPE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesEMBERHOPE INCShower Up: $95,000 · Human ServicesShower UpFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA: $72,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER…THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $69,587 · Human ServicesTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HO…ENVISION FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 · Human ServicesENVISION FOUNDATION INCSTARKEY INC: $50,000 · Human Services+10 more: $116,500 · Human Services+10 moreSedgwick County Zoo: $250,000 · OtherSedgwick County ZooHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC: $112,500 · OtherHUNTER HEALTH CLINICAmerican Red Cross: $70,000 · OtherHOLY SAVIOR CATHOLIC CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherKU Endowment: $50,000 · OtherWICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $160,000 · OtherWICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INCHOPE ENTERPRISE INC: $100,000 · OtherHOPE ENTERPRISE INCKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $50,000 · Other+55 more: $632,693 · Other+55 moreKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $200,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS PUBLIC…ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD: $100,000 · Arts & CultureORPHEUM PERFO…EXPLORATION PLACE INC: $85,000 · Arts & CultureEXPLORATION P…MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC THEATRE…MULBERRY ARTS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMULBERRY ARTS…Wichita Art Museum Inc: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $19,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $215,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …WICHITA PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $110,000 · PhilanthropyWICHITA PUB…DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY OF WICHITA INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyDOWN SYNDRO…WICHITA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyWICHITA FOU…+1 more: $9,000 · PhilanthropyHOPENET INC: $160,300 · HealthHOPENET I…HEARTSPRING INC: $83,334 · HealthHEARTSPRI…KVC HOSPITALS INC: $65,000 · HealthKVC HOSPI…WICHITA AREA SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER INC: $15,000 · HealthEPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH: $15,000 · HealthCENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC: $14,795 · HealthKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Health+3 more: $9,000 · HealthPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $100,000 · EducationWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationWSU Tech Foundation: $50,000 · EducationWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationCHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC: $28,780 · EducationKANSAS HISPANIC EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $19,500 · Education+3 more: $15,000 · EducationCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY: $100,000 · Crime & LegalWICHITA METRO CRIME COMMISSION INC: $100,000 · Crime & LegalICT SOS: $13,500 · Crime & LegalCASA OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC: $10,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $11,926 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$980,587Other$1,475,193Arts & Culture$494,000Philanthropy$444,000Health$376,429Education$293,280Crime & Legal$235,426

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $300,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $215,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE: $200,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetHOPENET INC: $160,300 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetWICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC: $112,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.8% 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: $85,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY OF WICHITA INC: $80,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetENVISION FOUNDATION INC: $67,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSTARKEY INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGuadalupe Clinic Inc: $36,525 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KANSAS HEARTLAND INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAbilityPoint Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC: $28,780 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBOTANICA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311): $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTARKEY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetWICHITA TOP CHILDRENS FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH HORIZONS INC: $22,000 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 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 budgetThe Eisenhower Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAINBOWS UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASA OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPASSAGEWAYS LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetICT FOOD RESCUE INC: $9,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUnited Way of Central Oklahoma Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRISE UP FOR YOUTH INC: $8,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWICHITA ANIMAL ACTION LEAGUE: $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHEROES ACADEMY INC: $7,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetWICHITA WOMEN'S INITIATIVE NETWORK INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE LIKE REMI FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budget
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Fidelity Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fidelity Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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