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Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$648k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
57%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$5.9M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 91% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $539k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving14$648k14%
FY202314$593k57%
FY202212$534k8%
FY202113$566k8%
FY202012$383k8%
FY201912$369k17%
FY201815$427k20%
FY201715$203kn/a
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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 2024.

Education$3.7MAnimals$344kYouth Development$286kArts & Culture$181kRecreation & Sports$140kHousing & Shelter$40kHealth$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Donnelly College$250,00022%
Kansas State Historical Society Inc$83,00063%
Reaching Champions Joining Hearts Inc$50,00012%
Pokes With A Purpose Inc$40,00012%
Oklahoma State University Foundation$25,00010%
University of Northern Colorado Foundation$20,00020%
Bonner Animal Rescue Inc$10,5008n/a
Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc$6,00060%
Kansas City Kansas School Foundation of Excellence$5,00011%
Catholic Housing of Wyandotte County Inc$5,0001n/a
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All grantees of Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Donnelly College$250,00022%
Kansas State Historical Society Inc$83,00063%
Reaching Champions Joining Hearts Inc$50,00012%
Pokes With A Purpose Inc$40,00012%
Oklahoma State University Foundation$25,00010%
University of Northern Colorado Foundation$20,00020%
Bonner Animal Rescue Inc$10,5008n/a
Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc$6,00060%
Kansas City Kansas School Foundation of Excellence$5,00011%
Catholic Housing of Wyandotte County Inc$5,0001n/a
Generation Rescue Inc$3,00020%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDonnelly College: $250,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetKansas State Historical Society Inc: $83,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetReaching Champions Joining Hearts Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPokes With A Purpose Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOklahoma State University Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Northern Colorado Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFreedoms Frontier National Heritage Area Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Kansas School Foundation of Excellence: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGeneration Rescue Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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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About Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation

How much does Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation give?
Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $647,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (79%), Animals (7%), Youth Development (6%).
Who are Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Donnelly College ($250k), Kansas State Historical Society Inc ($83k), Reaching Champions Joining Hearts Inc ($50k).
Does Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust, Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc.
Where is Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation based?
Willard J & Mary G Breidenthal Foundation 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 34 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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