· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $227k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| True the Vote | $310,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Wichita Children's Home | $30,000 |
| Catholic Charities Inc | $20,000 |
| Cambodian Children's Fund | $20,000 |
| Center of Hope Inc | $20,000 |
| Tom's Door | $16,000 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $16,000 |
| Guadalupe Clinic | $15,000 |
| Samaritan's Purse | $15,000 |
| TOP Early Learning Center | $12,500 |
| Tunnel to Towers | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Kansans for Life | $10,000 |
| The Lord's Diner | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $708k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TTTRUE THE VOTE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $710k · revenue +26%
- KHKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC3× · 2019–2022 · $440k · revenue +223%
- TWTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME8× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- WFWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTERone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -16%
- L4LEAGUE 42 FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue -39%
- CFCENTER FOR COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKINGone grant, 2023 · $40k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
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…
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…
To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.
To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.
To support, assist and promote the interests and welfare of the programs and activities of the catholic diocese of wichita which provide health care services and health education to poor, distressed and underprivileged individuals.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…
Hunter health (the center) operates three healthcare centers in wichita, ks. the center provides a broad range of health services to a largely medically underserved population. the us dept. of health and human services (dhhs) and indian…
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Crisis center of west texas' mission is to respond, shelter, and educate to end domestic and sexual violence in west texas.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds TRUE THE VOTE INC ↗
- Who funds KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds Center of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds TOM'S DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE 42 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST CEO KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds KANSAS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds Kansans For Life Inc ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Helping a HeroOrg ↗
- Who funds ICT FOOD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TUMOR FOUNDATION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Vess Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Vess Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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