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Wichita Top Childrens Fund

To support early childhood education & development, and operate schools that deliver a high quality early learning experience to children living in poverty, providing them the tools needed for emotional, academic and lifelong success

$616k
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
7
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$35,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$400,000
States reached, FY2020
1

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wichita State University Foundation$400,00011%
Starkey Inc$100,00010%
Rise Up for Youth Inc$35,00016%
Heroes Academy Inc$35,000117%
Rainbows United Charitable Foundation Inc$15,0001n/a
Via Christi Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Exploration Place Inc$10,00010%

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.

Kansas Health FoundationKS15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kansas Health Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc

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.

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Find your warmest path to Wichita Top Childrens Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Wichita Top Childrens Fund

How much does Wichita Top Childrens Fund give?
Wichita Top Childrens Fund reported 7 grants totaling $615,500 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Wichita Top Childrens Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Education (66%), Health (18%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Wichita Top Childrens Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Wichita State University Foundation ($400k), Starkey Inc ($100k), Rise Up for Youth Inc ($35k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Wichita Top Childrens Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kansas Health Foundation, The Fidelity Bank Foundation, Berry Foundation Inc.
Where is Wichita Top Childrens Fund based?
Wichita Top Childrens Fund is based in KS.

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 7 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $4.3M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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