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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.

$7.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
151
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$661k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$11MArts & Culture$9.3MReligion$5.5MHuman Services$4.6MHealth$4.6MCommunity Improvement$2.4MHousing & Shelter$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 151 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 151 grants below total $6,772,392, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,215,186 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $442,794 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
$20,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$112M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JOHN 316 MISSION: $25k → 14%CAMP WOOD YMCA: $116k → 11%SENIOR SERVICES INC: $129k → 16%SENIOR SERVICES INC: $54k → 16%EMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $315k → 16%EMPOWER EVERGREEN: $291k → 16%EMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $80k → 16%EMBERHOPE - UNITED METHODIST: $21k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA INC: $453k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA INC: $178k → 16%WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $167k → 16%FAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA INC: $113k → 16%THE SEED HOUSE-LA CASA DE LA SEMILLA: $50k → 16%THE SEED HOUSE-LA CASA DE LA SEMILLA: $39k → 16%WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $32k → 16%WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $29k → 16%ROOTS AND WINGS INC DBA CASA OF SEDGWICK COUNTY: $23k → 16%EMBERHOPE - UNITED METHODIST: $20k → 16%RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $74k → 16%RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $41k → 16%RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $31k → 16%RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $28k → 16%RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $26k → 16%RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $26k → 16%RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $22k → 16%RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $22k → 16%YMCA - COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $83k → 16%YMCA FOUNDATION OF WICHITA: $44k → 16%YMCA FOUNDATION OF WICHITA: $40k → 16%YMCA FOUNDATION OF WICHITA: $39k → 16%YMCA CORPORATE OFFICES: $32k → 16%YMCA FOUNDATION OF WICHITA: $27k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $24k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $24k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $23k → 16%YMCA FOUNDATION OF WICHITA: $23k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC - DIOCESE OF WICHITA: $20k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $19k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $87k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $82k → 16%WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $74k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $56k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $44k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $42k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $40k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $31k → 16%WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $26k → 16%ONERISE INC: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Wichita Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in KS; by stated purpose, 89%.

Wichita Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$43M · 207 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

207
143

Total granted

$43M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+8%

Still filing today

78%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $416k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WA
    Wichita Art Museum Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +69%
  • WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +85%
  • KD
    KANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +27% · 62% of their budget

Funded once

  • WT
    WSU Tech
    one grant, 2019 · $500k
  • HL
    Heartspring Legacy Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $462k
  • CW
    CAMP WOOD YMCA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $116k · revenue +43%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Wichita Regional Chamber of Commerce Inc

To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.

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2
Western Kansas Community Foundation

Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.

Philanthropy
3
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
4
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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5
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
6
Kansas Bioscience Organization Inc

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…

Education
7
Kansas National Education Association

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.

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8
Kansas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.

Environment
9
Kansas Health Institute

Improve the health of all kansans through nonpartisan research, education and engagement that support effective policymaking.

Science & Tech
10
Kansas Action for Children Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Kansas Land Trust Inc

To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.

Environment
12
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Senior Services Inc of Wichita; 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.
05the grantee network

300 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

32
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
84
Early backer (in before they grew)
288/300
Grantees still filing
188/300
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 259 WICHITA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,259,096 · OtherUNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 259 WICHITA PUBLIC…CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITA: $1,011,650 · OtherCATHOLIC DIOCESE OF WICHITASALVATION ARMY: $971,059 · OtherSALVATION ARMYBOTANICA INC: $710,209 · Other+96 more: $13,213,689 · Other+96 moreWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,580,536 · EducationWICHITA STATE UNIVER…The Kansas University Endowment Association: $675,000 · EducationThe Kansas Universit…THE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $645,083 · EducationTHE SOUTHWESTERN COL…KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $626,400 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERS…Heartspring Legacy Foundation: $462,000 · EducationHeartspring Legacy F…WICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $443,050 · EducationWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRA…PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $418,112 · EducationKansas Leadership Center: $388,739 · EducationFriends University: $313,607 · EducationFUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION: $276,600 · Education+18 more: $1,303,540 · Education+18 moreWichita Art Museum Inc: $2,894,022 · Arts & CultureWichita Art Museum …ORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD: $995,363 · Arts & CultureORPHEUM PERFORMING …BEACON MEDIA INC: $776,200 · Arts & CultureBEACON MEDIA INCWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $570,288 · Arts & CultureWICHITA SYMPHONY SO…HARVESTER ARTS: $391,461 · Arts & CultureMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $346,830 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $302,937 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $1,663,220 · Arts & Culture+14 moreFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA: $750,454 · Human ServicesFAMILY PR…EMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $686,400 · Human ServicesEMPOWER E…THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $425,209 · Human ServicesTHE WICHI…THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311): $330,295 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG…WICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $329,294 · Human ServicesWICHITA F…RAINBOWS UNITED INC: $284,184 · Human ServicesRAINBOWS …SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA: $214,809 · Human ServicesSENIOR SE…CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $159,555 · Human Services+9 more: $635,047 · Human Services+9 moreKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,379,652 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $184,348 · HealthEPISCOPAL SOCIAL SERVICES INC DBA BREAKTHROUGH: $162,720 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $119,082 · HealthGRACEMED HEALTH CLINIC INC: $114,768 · HealthKANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $99,000 · HealthCENTRAL PLAINS HEALTH CARE PARTNERSHIP INC: $98,175 · Health+12 more: $645,821 · HealthNXTUS INC: $804,500 · Community ImprovementTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC: $425,000 · Community ImprovementGARAGE AT CLEVELAND CORNER INC: $283,460 · Community ImprovementCREATE CAMPAIGN INC: $223,200 · Community ImprovementDESTINATION INNOVATION INC: $141,737 · Community ImprovementOpportunity Wichita Inc: $126,433 · Community ImprovementDOUGLAS DESIGN DISTRICT INC: $101,075 · Community Improvement+1 more: $65,422 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $1,143,003 · PhilanthropyNONPROFITGO INC: $430,229 · PhilanthropySALINA AREA UNITED WAY INC: $116,185 · PhilanthropyGREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $105,000 · PhilanthropyDOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY OF WICHITA INC: $74,950 · PhilanthropyWINONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $68,313 · Philanthropy+1 more: $30,483 · Philanthropy
Other$18,165,703Education$8,132,667Arts & Culture$7,940,321Human Services$3,815,247Health$2,803,566Community Improvement$2,170,827Philanthropy$1,968,163

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWichita Art Museum Inc: $2,894,022 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetWICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,580,536 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetKANSAS DENTAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,379,652 over 9y, 62% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE PLAINS INC: $1,143,003 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetORPHEUM PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE LTD: $995,363 over 9y, 12% of budgetNXTUS INC: $804,500 over 6y, 67% of budgetBEACON MEDIA INC: $776,200 over 4y, 18% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF GREATER WICHITA: $750,454 over 4y, 54% of budgetBOTANICA INC: $710,209 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetEMPOWER EVERGREEN INC: $686,400 over 3y, 14% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $675,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE: $645,083 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $626,400 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITA SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $570,288 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetHUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC: $529,635 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetCAIRN HEALTH INC: $507,996 over 9y, 19% of budgetICT SOS: $486,761 over 6y, 26% of budgetHeartspring Legacy Foundation: $462,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetWICHITA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $443,050 over 8y, 17% of budgetNONPROFITGO INC: $430,229 over 4y, 39% of budgetTHE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME: $425,209 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JUNIOR LEAGUE OF WICHITA INC: $425,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $418,112 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetHARVESTER ARTS: $391,461 over 3y, 57% of budgetKansas Leadership Center: $388,739 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSEDGWICK COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $381,680 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTREES FOR LIFE INC: $378,122 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $362,434 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF SEDGWICK COUNTY: $352,300 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetMUSIC THEATRE WICHITA: $346,830 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetHUNTER HEALTH CLINIC: $340,603 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WICHITA KANSAS (2311): $330,295 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWICHITA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER: $329,294 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetFriends University: $313,607 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $302,937 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetRAINBOWS UNITED INC: $284,184 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetGARAGE AT CLEVELAND CORNER INC: $283,460 over 5y, 90% of budgetFUNDAMENTAL LITERACY FOUNDATION: $276,600 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetWICHITA GRAND OPERA INC: $251,074 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetThe Tiny News Collective Inc: $242,962 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCREATE CAMPAIGN INC: $223,200 over 5y, 31% of budgetDOC'S FRIENDS INC: $215,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA: $214,809 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetDEL E WEBB CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $200,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $184,348 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEWMAN UNIVERSITY INC: $179,980 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWICHITA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $165,845 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCONGREGATION EMANU-EL FOUNDATION INC: $165,000 over 5y, 47% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of the Pla…Dwane L and Velma Lun…Kansas Health Foundat…Berry Foundation IncThe Fidelity Bank Fou…Lattner Family Founda…Goebel Family-Star Lu…Textron Charitable Tr…Daniel J Taylor Famil…Simply Hygiene IncBelin FoundationIma Foundation
United Way of the Plains IncKS168× affinity89 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Wichita Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wichita Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    55report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 383 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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