Kansas · Nonprofit
GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS
GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,500 to it, the largest being MANN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($28,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $899k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $35k
- Net assets
- $-208198
What Greater Wichita Area Sports Commiss does
Mission
To enhance the quality of life and the economy in the wichita, ks area by promoting, acquiring & supporting a diversity of youth, amateur & professional sporting programs & events.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To promote confidence, community involvement, strong peer relationships, academic achievement and character building in the community through hosting, promoting and facilitating amateur and professional sporting events.
$792,090 spent100% of program spendingTo promote confidence, community involvement, strong peer relationships, academic achievement and character building in the community through hosting, promoting and facilitating amateur and professional sporting events.
$647 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $792,737.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $186k to $43k (−77%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 10% · 2021 13% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (18% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $4k → $8k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 67% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 2 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS?
- GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS (Kansas) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $34,500 to it, the largest being MANN FAMILY FOUNDATION ($28,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $34,500 in grants to GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS?
- MANN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GREATER WICHITA AREA SPORTS COMMISS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing