Kansas · Nonprofit
WICHITA FESTIVALS INC
WICHITA FESTIVALS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,969 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($154,244). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
WICHITA FESTIVALS INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,432 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Zack and Leilah Farha Charitable Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Bonavia Family Charitable Trustlocalportfolio match
- Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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 22% · 2021 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
9% of WICHITA FESTIVALS INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $16k → $38k.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% 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 WICHITA FESTIVALS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
WICHITA FESTIVALS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund WICHITA FESTIVALS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 89% · 2019 38% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 96% · 2023 80% — 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.
How long its funders stay
10% of WICHITA FESTIVALS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
70% of WICHITA FESTIVALS INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $84k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $195k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Zack and Leilah Farha Charitable Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchKS · funds 26 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Bonavia Family Charitable Trustlocalportfolio matchKS · funds 20 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Dwane L and Velma Lunt Wallace Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalKS · backs 69 organizations that share your funders · funds 77 organizations near you
- Annie Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mike and Lanny Garvey Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Russ & Helen Meyer Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas and Sally Wood Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- 1440 Ventures Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dwayne and Dottie Shannon Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Barry L and Paula M Downing Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Neighbor Fund Incshared funderslocalKS · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · funds 27 organizations near you
- Intrust Bank Charitable Trshared fundersKS · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WICHITA FESTIVALS INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WICHITA FESTIVALS INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WICHITA FESTIVALS INC?
- WICHITA FESTIVALS INC (Kansas) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $278,969 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($154,244). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WICHITA FESTIVALS INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $278,969 in grants to WICHITA FESTIVALS INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WICHITA FESTIVALS INC?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $154,244 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WICHITA FESTIVALS INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 14funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing