· Private foundation
The Robert and Nancy Schwan 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| HUMANKIND MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $12,000 |
| FAMILY HOUSING NETOWORK OF FOR COLLINS | $5,000 |
| VICTORY IN THE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| BREAKTRHOUGH EPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| WICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WICHITA POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
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 +58% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- KFKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +36%
- HMHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC7× · 2019–2025 · $156k · revenue +199%
- PFPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $85k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- TJTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue -81%
- IMINTER-FAITH MINISTRIESone grant, 2018 · $15k
- VGVAN GO INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +1%
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.
To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
At wichita habitat for humanity, we believe everyone deserves the strength, stability, and independence that comes with a safe, affordable home. we partner with hardworking individuals and families in our community, empowering them to…
"strengthening communities to fight hunger with food, education, and advocacy"
Wplf seeks private charitable support to create young readers, ensure digital inclusion, and provide equitable access to information. wplf's sole purpose is to create a margin of excellence at wichita public library.
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…
Administer employee contributions for assistance.
Formerly ywca wichita, the wichita family crisis center (wfcc) began operations in wichita, ks in 1907. wfcc's mission is to eliminate domestic violence in our community by supporting survivors through shelter, education & advocacy.
The mission of Flint Hills Area Transportation Agency (the Organization) is to provide and promote the highest quality transit services to the Flint Hills communities.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 23 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 KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HUMANE SOCIETY OF WICHITA KANSAS ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY IN THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Housing Network of Fort Collins Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds WICHITA POLICE AND FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Berry Foundation Inc · Zack and Leilah Farha Charitable Foundation Inc · Annie Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · Servant Foundation · Wichita Foundation · The Devlin Family 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 Robert and Nancy Schwan 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.
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.
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