Kansas · Private foundation
Vess Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $615k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2024
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $310,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Vess Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 23 | $615k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $428k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $944k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $364k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $493k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $537k | 17% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $237k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $342k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| True the Vote Inc | $710,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Kvc Health Systems Inc | $440,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Wichita Children's Home | $237,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Wichita State University Foundation | $220,864 | 3 | 0% |
| Americans for America | $218,000 | 3 | 12% |
| Turning Point USA Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center of Hope Inc | $167,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $146,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Tom's Door Inc | $130,500 | 8 | 15% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $120,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($669k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Vess Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Plains Inc · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Ima Foundation · Mann Family Foundation · Belin Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Bruce G Cochener Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Vess Family Foundation
- How much does Vess Family Foundation give?
- Vess Family Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $614,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Vess Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (19%), Human Services (16%), Health (15%).
- Who are Vess Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: True the Vote Inc ($710k), Kvc Health Systems Inc ($440k), The Wichita Children's Home ($238k).
- Does Vess Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Vess Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Vess Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wichita Foundation, Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust, Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353.
- Where is Vess Family Foundation based?
- Vess Family Foundation is based in KS.
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