· Private foundation
The Weary 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - WEARY FDTN ENDOWED CHAIR #484071 | $1,492,000 |
| WAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUND | $250,000 |
| KSU FOUNDATION EXCELLENCE - FUND C31491 | $160,000 |
| KSU FOUNDATION MCCAIN AUDITORIUM ENDOWMENT - FUND C53375 | $150,000 |
| KSU BEACH MUSEUM OF ART ENDOWMENT - FUND C53370 | $150,000 |
| THE HOMECARE & HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| KSU FOUNDATION - FUND C18010 | $100,000 |
| JUNCTION CITY FAMILY YMCA | $100,000 |
| KSU FOUNDATION - FUND D50834 | $100,000 |
| CL HOOVER OPERA HOUSE | $50,000 |
| THE CRISIS CENTER INC | $35,000 |
| RILEY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| THE CRISIS CENTER INC - BUILDING FUND | $30,000 |
| KSU FOUNDATION - FUND F40102 | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $756k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
42 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
YMCA OF THE ROCKIES5× · 2017–2021 · $1.8M · revenue +80%- JCJUNCTION CITY FAMILY YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $756k · revenue +246%
- WHWAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUND3× · 2023–2025 · $750k · revenue +207%
Funded once
- OHOHIO HEALTH FOUNDATION JANET W BAY ENDOWED CHAIR FUNDone grant, 2022 · $1.5M
- AIAGINGWELL INCone grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -97%
- FHFLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +98%
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 kansas humane society is a community resource for pets and people, dedicated to enhancing the welfare of all companion animals.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
Foster and support amateur sports competition
The vision of the Association is optimal health for Kansans. The Association's mission is to be the leading advocate and resource for members.
To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
Ucare kansas will improve the health of our members through innovative services and partnerships across communities.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
Wesley towers, inc. is a not-for-profit continuing care retirement community that is a leader in providing comprehensive health and retirement services to the hutchinson/reno county community for over 40 years.
Organization provides medical education to students and residents, patient care, and conducts research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junction City Family Ymca. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 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 YMCA OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds JUNCTION CITY FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds WAREHAM HALL RENOVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AGINGWELL INC ↗
- Who funds RILEY COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MILE HIGH UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds BREEDER RELEASE ADOPTION SERVICE ↗
- Who funds FLINTHILLS BREADBASKET INC ↗
- Who funds Great Plains of Republic Co Inc ↗
- Who funds Symphony in the Flint Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds FLINT HILLS DISCOVERY CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF JUNCTION CITY-GEARY COUNTY ↗
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: Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Manhattan Fund - Caroline F Peine Charitable · Jellison Benevolent Society Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Weary 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 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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