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Bomhoff Foundation

Wichita, KS · EIN 48-6377562. Reported 60 grants totalling $4,549,000 to 24 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$60,000median grant
$4,549,000granted, 2021-2024
24recipients, as named on its returns
92%of grantees funded again the next year
$20.2Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Bomhoff Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $60,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $10,000 and $130,000; the smallest was $1,000 and the largest $208,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
8 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
11 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants
$100,000 and Up
24 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
HeartspringWichita, KS$633,500442024
Salvation ArmyWichita, KS$633,500442024
American Red Cross of KansasWichita, KS$600,000442024
Emberhope IncWichita, KS$598,000442024
Humankind MinistriesWichita, KS$575,000442024
Wichita Childrens HomeWichita, KS$526,500442024
Kansas Aviation MuseumWichita, KS$182,000222024
Trinity AcademyWichita, KS$158,000222024
Botanica the Wichita GardensWichita, KS$130,000222024
United Way of the PlainsWichita, KS$110,000222022
Lord's DinerWichita, KS$95,000442024
Kansas Food Bank WarehouseWichita, KS$93,000332023
Senior Services of WichitaWichita, KS$83,000222024
Flowers on DouglasWichita, KS$25,000442024
Rainbows United IncWichita, KS$25,000222022
Ronald Mcdonald House CharitiesWichita, KS$25,000222022
Sunlight Children's Advocacy & Rights FoundationAndover, KS$25,000222022
United Methodist Open Door IncWichita, KS$10,000112022
First United Methodist ChurchWichita, KS$7,000222022
Kpts IncWichita, KS$6,000222022
Mark ArtsWichita, KS$5,000112024
Harry Hynes HospiceWichita, KS$1,500112021
Finney County Historical SocietyGarden City, KS$1,000112022
The Active AgeWichita, KS$1,000112022

19 of 24 (79%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 92%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.

Human Services
10 grants
Health Care
6 grants
Food & Nutrition
3 grants
Arts & Culture
3 grants
Education
2 grants
Environment
2 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$963,500$35,000
202218$881,500$25,000
202313$1,099,000$71,500
202413$1,605,000$122,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Wichita, KS
$4.5M
Andover, KS
$25K
Garden City, KS
$1K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.

Wichita Foundation13 shared recipientsTextron Charitable Trust Dtd 12235312 shared recipientsUnited Way of the Plains Inc10 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc10 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsBerry Foundation Inc10 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $60,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kansas.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Bomhoff Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.

Address of record on the latest return: 301 N Main St Suite 600, Wichita, KS, 67202. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 48-6377562 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded.

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