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Deboer Foundation Inc

Wichita, KS · EIN 46-3394129. Reported 27 grants totalling $439,951 to 16 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$7,500median grant
$439,951granted, 2021-2024
16organizations funded
57%of grantees funded again the next year
$51,202assets, 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. Deboer Foundation Inc 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 $7,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $90,583. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
7 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
1 grant
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Deboer Fellowship Myanmar Company LimitedYangon, Yangon$224,221442024
CatchafireNew York, NY$65,000112021
United Way of the PlainsWichita, KS$25,000332023
Friends of BurmaFort Wayne, IN$23,230332024
Feed My Starving ChildrenCoon Rapids, MN$20,000222024
Child Advocacy CenterWichita, KS$12,500222022
Center City Academy IncWichita, KS$10,000112023
Hopenet IncWichita, KS$10,000222023
Nonprofitgo IncWichita, KS$10,000112022
Salvation ArmyWichita, KS$10,000222024
Center for Behavioral and Academic Research Inc Dba Mcadams AcademyWichita, KS$5,000112023
Club Parkinson'sWichita, KS$5,000112024
Heroes Academy IncWichita, KS$5,000112023
Nonprofit Go IncWichita, KS$5,000112023
Student StartupBel Aire, KS$5,000112022
Union Rescue Mission of Wichita IncWichita, KS$5,000112023

7 of 16 (44%) 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 57%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 12 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
5 grants
Health Care
2 grants
International Affairs
2 grants
Human Services
1 grant
Crime & Legal
1 grant
Diseases & Disorders
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20214$173,083$37,500
20227$122,118$8,080
202311$80,780$5,000
20245$63,970$7,070

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

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 51% of this one's giving went to organizations in YANGON. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Yangon
$224K
Kansas
$108K
New York
$65K
Indiana
$23K
Minnesota
$20K

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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 the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $7,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Deboer Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 2121 North Webb Rd, Wichita, KS, 67206. 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 46-3394129 · 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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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