· Private foundation
Zack and Leilah Farha Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of ZACK AND LEILAH FARHA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’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 · FY2021
- Under $10k11 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $39k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $23,500 |
| FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER | $15,000 |
| BOTANICA THE WICHITA GARDENS | $5,000 |
| WICHITA ART MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| BLESSED SACRAMENT | $2,000 |
| HUMANKIND MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
| HOPE RANCH FOR WOMEN | $1,000 |
| SENIOR SERVICES OF WICHITA | $1,000 |
| WOMEN OF WICHITA CHARITABLE FDN | $1,000 |
| SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOO | $1,000 |
| WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME | $1,000 |
| WICHITA TOP CHILDREN'S FUND | $500 |
| MARKARTS INC | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 9 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- PFPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $22k · revenue +179%
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $18k · revenue +85%- BIBOTANICA INC2× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- RMRene Moawad Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +72%
- THTHREE HEIRARCH ORTHODOX MISSIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
- TKTHE KANSAS DUI IMPACT CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $2k
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 engage in grant making to medical educational organizations and related charitable activities in the area of eye disease and vision disorder, and the care and treatment thereof.
Wichita's littlest heroes (wlh) exists to provide hope, help, and happiness to families of children ages 0-18 in the kansas area who are battling life-threatening medical conditions. wlh strives to accomplish this be being a physical and…
Wplf seeks private charitable support to create young readers, ensure digital inclusion, and provide equitable access to information. wplf's sole purpose is to create a margin of excellence at wichita public library.
At wichita habitat for humanity, we believe everyone deserves the strength, stability, and independence that comes with a safe, affordable home. we partner with hardworking individuals and families in our community, empowering them to…
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
To drive economic growth and community advancement in the wichita region.
The mission of Downtown Wichita is to cultivate opportunities that revitalize and enhance Wichita's urban core.
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To provide educational programs to children in the community with regard to performing arts.
Wichita area sexual assault center works with individuals and communities through comprehensive services and education to create a culture of intolerance for sexual violence and an atmosphere of healing for those impacted by it.
Wichita indochinese center inc's mission is to teach english, employability skills, and life skills to any adult whose first language is not english and to help find jobs for those seeking work.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wichita Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 44 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 MARK ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOTANICA INC ↗
- Who funds Wichita Art Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WICHITA CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds HUMANKIND MINISTRIES WICHITA INC ↗
- Who funds Rene Moawad Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE PANDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOWS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE KANSAS DUI IMPACT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN OF WICHITA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE ↗
- Who funds HOPE RANCH FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds Erin Is Hope Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WICHITA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL RELIEF TEAMS ↗
- Who funds WICHITA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIOR SERVICES INC OF WICHITA ↗
- Who funds WICHITA MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Textron Charitable Trust Dtd 122353 · Wichita Foundation · Berry Foundation Inc · Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundation · The Fidelity Bank Foundation · K T Wiedemann Foundation Inc · United Way of the Plains Inc · Tim and Tracy Farrell Foundation · Laham Family Foundation · Daniel J Taylor Family Charitable Foundation · Mann Family Foundation · Mosby Lincoln 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 Zack and Leilah Farha Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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