· Private foundation
Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of WILLARD J & MARY G BREIDENTHAL FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $118k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KU WILLIAMS EDUCATION FUND | $300,000 |
| POKES FOR A PURPOSE | $175,000 |
| WILLIAMS FUND | $50,000 |
| KANSAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $37,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| OKLAHOMA STATE UNVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ZOO | $1,000 |
| BONNER ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| KCUR | $500 |
| KANSAS CITY PUBLIC TELEVISION | $500 |
| GIRL SCOUTS | $500 |
| WYANDOTTE COUNTY MUSEUM | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of your 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.
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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- KWKU WILLIAMS EDUCATION FUND5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M
- WEWILLIAMS EDUCATIONAL FUND-KU2× · 2018–2021 · $502k
- PFPOKES FOR A PURPOSE2× · 2023–2024 · $325k
Funded once
- KUKANSAS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $51k
- RCREACHING CHAMPIONS JOINING HEARTS INCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- KSKANSAS STATE ATHLETICS-AHEARN FUNDone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Building enduring relationships that maximize advocacy and philanthropy to support North Dakota State University.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
The mission of the kansas state university foundation is to secure and prudently manage private gifts in support of kansas state university and foster a culture that unites philanthropic desires with university priorities.
Umkc foundation's sole purpose is to benefit the university of missouri - kansas city (umkc) by supporting (through funds raised, held and administered by the foundation) academic programs and educational opportunities that will enhance…
To maximize private gift support for pittsburg state university, exercise proper management of foundation assets, lay the groundwork for future fundraising success in support of the university's teaching, research and service/civic…
The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To strengthen the university and communities that have touched the lives of wu alumni and friends, the mission of the washburn university charitable gift fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable…
To provide support to NWOSU and scholarships to NWOSU students
See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…
The foundation is organized to secure gifts of money or property in efforts of advancing education and/or research; therefore, providing assistance in furthering the mission of kansas wesleyan university.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahoma State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Pokes With a Purpose Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 34 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
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 EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds Kansas State Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds REACHING CHAMPIONS JOINING HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Pokes With A Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds Oklahoma State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOMS FRONTIER NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Kansas School Foundation of Excellence ↗
- Who funds GENERATION RESCUE INC ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal 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.