Kansas · Nonprofit
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,547,274 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,914,955). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 124
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $401M
What Wichita State University Foundation does
Mission
The Wichita State University Foundation, as the private fund raising organization of the university, seeks to advance the mission of the university by identifying, cultivating and soliciting private support from individuals, corporations and foundations. Private contributions are necessary to support the programs and vision of the university. Its private status ensures the donor's right of anonymity and its ability to support the university's mission. The foundation further seeks to build and foster relationships with internal and external constituencies, which mutually benefit the university, the wichita community, and the state of kansas.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation awards scholarships to students for use in attending wichita state university in accordance with provisions established by the donor.
$8,535,804 spentof which $8,378,126 as grants38% of program spendingThe foundation provides for faculty salary support, departmental operating expenses, and building construction and maintenance in accordance with donor restrictions.
$13,955,441 spent62% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,491,245.
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 2020 to 2021, from $344M to $396M (+15%).
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.
51% of WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Jay Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 24 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $3.4M.
24 of 124 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.0M from 7 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Wichita Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 124 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
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
46% 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 STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 37% · 2018 33% · 2019 23% · 2020 36% · 2021 35% · 2022 29% · 2023 15% — 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
47% of WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
52% of WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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.
Against its field
WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
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
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Wsuf Real Estate Holding LLC · disregarded
- Maize Avenue Inc · corp_trust
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: 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 WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION (Kansas) receives grants from 124 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,547,274 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($3,914,955). 69 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 124 organizations giving $30,547,274 in grants to WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION, 69 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $3,914,955 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 124 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing