Kansas · Private foundation
Tom Feist Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $448,475
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 11
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $27M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Tom Feist Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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 | 7 | $959k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $979k | 45% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $981k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $1.2M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $712k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $987k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $1.0M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $1.1M | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spearville Senior Living Inc | $1,870,063 | 5 | 53% |
| Teen Force | $124,146 | 1 | n/a |
| Windthorst Heritage Inc | $59,850 | 2 | 37% |
| Kansas Senior Living Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 1% |
| St Marys Community Heritage Foundat Ion Inc | $22,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Meadowlark House Child Advocacy Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Lancer Center Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Ford County Fair Association | $7,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Loyal Lancers Booster Club | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.8M), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas
How this is measured
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About Tom Feist Foundation
- How much does Tom Feist Foundation give?
- Tom Feist Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $1,101,575 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 11 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Tom Feist Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (27%), Human Services (20%), Environment (16%).
- Who are Tom Feist Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Spearville Senior Living Inc ($1.9M), Teen Force ($124k), Windthorst Heritage Inc ($60k).
- Does Tom Feist Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Tom Feist Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Tom Feist Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Southwest Kansas.
- Where is Tom Feist Foundation based?
- Tom Feist Foundation is based in KS.
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