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V J Wilkins 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 $10k11 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| USD 470 | $75,192 |
| ARK CITY AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $50,000 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY | $35,271 |
| CHAPLIN NATURE CENTER-AUDOBON SOCIE | $29,500 |
| MUSIC THEATRE OF WICHITA | $20,300 |
| WINFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| ARKANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $9,625 |
| LEGACY REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO | $5,000 |
| KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| COWLEY COUNTY FARMERS MARKET | $5,000 |
| SOUTH KANSAS SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| ARK CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $4,500 |
| ROOTED WOMEN'S MINISTRY | $4,000 |
| MARQUEE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $3,288 |
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 (FY23–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- MTMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA3× · 2023–2025 · $56k · revenue +66%
- TSTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE4× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +8%
- AFArkalalah Festival Inc3× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +280%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY AT THE BURFORDone grant, 2019 · $200k
- TATHEATRE AT THE BURFORDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $48k
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 preserve and protect museum artifacts of the south central area of oklahoma
Operating a public museum
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
Educate the general public about items of historical significance and preservation of historic buildings, artifacts and landmarks in south arkansas
To preserve the legacy and to ensure and advance the prominence of kansas newspapers and the communities they faithfully serve.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
Promote theatre
The Greater Kansas City Community Foundation's mission is to improve the quality of life in Greater Kansas City by increasing charitable giving, educating and connecting donors to community needs they care about, and leading on critical…
The Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas servces the region by encouraging charitable giving benefiting the common good and the quality of life.
The Foundation for Arkansas Heritage and History was established to help further the mission of the Division of Arkansas Heritage; to identify Arkansass Heritage and enhance the quality of life by the discovery,preservation and…
Building stronger communities through charitable giving.
Association to support kansas museums
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legacy a Regional Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sck Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 53 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 ARKANSAS CITY AREA ART COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CHEROKEE STRIP LAND RUSH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEGACY A REGIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Arkalalah Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds SCK Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds ROOTED INC ↗
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: Legacy a Regional Community Foundation · Ima Foundation · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 V J Wilkins 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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