· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VDGSA | $2,000 |
| WICHITA STATE ULRICH MUSEUM | $1,250 |
| LINDA HALL LIBRARY | $1,250 |
| WICHITA ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| HUMAN KIND MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| KPTS | $250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GLGROOVER LABS INC4× · 2019–2022 · $215k · revenue ×18 · 61% of their budget
- WAWichita Art Museum Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +69%
- WCWellesley College8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- VDVIOLA DA GAMBA SOCIETY OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $50k
- DCDARTMOUTH COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $35k
- KRKMUW - RADIOone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
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 drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
The tulsa regional chamber transforms the tulsa region by attracting and retaining employers, talent and tourism for long-term prosperity.
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 own and operate a museum, curating antiques and collectibles, that provides a gateway to the past that educates, entertains, and inspires lifelong learning
Goodwill empowers people to reach their full potential through work opportunities, training, and support services.
To create a space in our communities through education and cultural experiences that celebrate the joy of discovery and entertainment.
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.
The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.
Connecting, caring, advocating for wildlife, people, and wild places.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gridley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gridley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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