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Wichita Foundation
The WICHITA FOUNDATION invests in people and ideas to spark change, and envisions a place where all wichitans thrive and belong.
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.
The 151 grants below total $6,772,392 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,215,186 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $442,794 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $282k
- $10k–50k80 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.9M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| USD 259 - WICHITA PUBLIC SCHOOLS - CONTROLLER | $661,181 |
| ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD | $395,000 |
| ICT SOS | $361,000 |
| WICHITA ART MUSEUM | $325,622 |
| KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $203,652 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA | $197,500 |
| KANSAS LEADERSHIP CENTER | $193,700 |
| WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AND ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT | $175,645 |
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY | $167,680 |
| TINY NEWS COLLECTIVE INC | $142,962 |
| NONPROFITGO | $131,336 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA INC | $113,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC | $107,000 |
| GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $105,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC | $102,063 |
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, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Wichita Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in KS; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
207 repeat relationships — 118 still active in FY2025, 89 since wound down; 23 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k 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
- WAWichita Art Museum Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +69%
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +85%- KDKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +27% · 62% of their budget
Funded once
- WTWSU Techone grant, 2019 · $500k
- HLHeartspring Legacy Foundationone grant, 2024 · $462k
- CWCAMP WOOD YMCA INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $116k · revenue +43%
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 drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
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.
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Biokansas is the unified voice representing the biosciences in kansas. across the human, plant, animal and industrial biosciences, biokansas is focused on enhancing the business and research climate and working with leaders across the…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
To enhance the life, culture, and community of South Central Kansas by connecting people who care with causes that matter.
To advocate for education professionals and to unite our members, kansans, and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita and the most unlike its peers is Mamafilm Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
300 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 300 of the 383 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD ↗
- Who funds NXTUS INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA ↗
- Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER EVERGREEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds CAIRN HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ICT SOS ↗
- Who funds Heartspring Legacy Foundation ↗
- Who funds WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NONPROFITGO INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds THE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTER ARTS ↗
- Who funds Kansas Leadership Center ↗
- Who funds SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MUSIC THEATRE WICHITA ↗
- Who funds HUNTER HEALTH CLINIC ↗
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: United Way of the Plains Inc · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · Kansas Health Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Lattner Family Foundation Inc · Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust · Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · Simply Hygiene Inc · Belin Foundation · Ima 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 Wichita 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.