Kansas · Private foundation
The Gridley 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.
- $8k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Gridley Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $8k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $30k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $41k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $22k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $166k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $69k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $57k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groover Labs Inc | $215,000 | 4 | 61% |
| Wichita Art Museum Inc | $14,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kansas Public Telecommunications Service | $2,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Exploration Place Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Spokane Nordic Ski Association | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of South Central Kansas Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mamafilm Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tallgrass Film Association | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 17 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groover Labs Inc | $215,000 | 4 | 61% |
| Wichita Art Museum Inc | $14,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $11,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Kansas Public Telecommunications Service | $2,750 | 7 | 0% |
| Exploration Place Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Spokane Nordic Ski Association | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Club of South Central Kansas Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Mamafilm Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Tallgrass Film Association | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wichita Public Library Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Humankind Ministries Wichita Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bartlett Arboretum Society | $500 | 1 | 1% |
| Viola Da Gamba Society-New England Inc | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| 36 Degrees North Co | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Fab Lab Tulsa Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($296k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Gridley Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About The Gridley Family Foundation
- How much does The Gridley Family Foundation give?
- The Gridley Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $7,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Gridley Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (39%), Arts & Culture (29%), Education (19%).
- Who are The Gridley Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Groover Labs Inc ($215k), Wichita Art Museum Inc ($14k), Wellesley College ($11k).
- Does The Gridley Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Gridley Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Gridley Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wichita Foundation, Ima Foundation, The Fidelity Bank Foundation.
- Where is The Gridley Family Foundation based?
- The Gridley Family Foundation is based in KS.
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