· Private foundation
The Gridley Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LINDA HALL LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| MIT | $10,000 |
| WICHITA STATE ULRICH MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| WICHITA ART MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| VDGSA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| KPTS | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your 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 +69% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GLGROOVER LABS INC4× · 2019–2022 · $215k · revenue ×18 · 61% of their budget
- WAWichita Art Museum Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +69%
- WCWellesley College7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- VDVIOLA DA GAMBA SOCIETY OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $50k
- DCDARTMOUTH COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $35k
- KRKMUW - RADIOone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
To create a space in our communities through education and cultural experiences that celebrate the joy of discovery and entertainment.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
To own and operate a museum, curating antiques and collectibles, that provides a gateway to the past that educates, entertains, and inspires lifelong learning
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Union station kansas city, inc. is dedicated to preserving its historic monument and its stories, inspiring lifelong learning, and creating lasting memories for our community.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
As the state chamber of commerce, tab is the most influential and dominant voice for public policy issues affecting business in texas. through proven results-oriented advocacy and member services, tab develops a climate in texas which…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mamafilm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 48 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 GROOVER LABS INC ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds EXPLORATION PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Spokane Nordic Ski Association ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SOUTH CENTRAL KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds MAMAFILM INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TALLGRASS FILM ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Ima Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Servant Foundation · Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundation · Bonavia Family Charitable Trust · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · Annie Foundation · Humanities Kansas 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 Gridley 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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.