Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust
Wichita, KS · EIN 48-1065296. Reported 53 grants totalling $766,871 to 53 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
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. Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $3,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $250 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exploration Place | Wichita, KS | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Starkey Foundation | Wichita, KS | $71,572 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities | Wichita, KS | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity | Wichita, KS | $55,474 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Orpheum Theater | Wichita, KS | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Employee Assistance Fund | Baton Rouge, LA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ku School of Medicine | Wichita, KS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| YMCA | Wichita, KS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Episcopal Social Services | Wichita, KS | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bishop Carroll High School | Wichita, KS | $16,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shepards Way | Wichita, KS | $16,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Heartspring | Wichita, KS | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wichita State University | Wichita, IA | $14,779 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Humankind Ministries | Wichita, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kapaun Mt Carmel High School | Wichita, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Prairie View Inc | Wichita, KS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saint Jude Wichita | Wichita, KS | $6,817 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Independent Living Resource Center | Wichita, KS | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ability Point | Wichita, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Club of South Central Kansas | Wichita, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kansas Big Brothers Big Sisters | Wiichita, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Manhattan Area Technical College | Manhattan, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mcpherson Housing Coalition | Mcpherson, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| PBS | Wichita, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities | Wichita, KS | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wichita Police and Fire Foundation | Wichita, KS | $4,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends University | Wichita, KS | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bike Walk Wichita | Wichita, KS | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cricket Alley Ministry | Wichita, KS | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ict Food Rescue | Wichita, KS | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Oklahoma Boxing and Combat Sports | Bethany, OK | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Tallgrass Film Festival | Wichita, KS | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bluemont Elementary | Manhattan, KS | $2,085 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Simply Hygiene | Park City, KS | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Wichita | Wichita, KS | $1,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Beggarman Ministries | Andover, KS | $1,149 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Christ the King Church | Wichita, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Guiding Paws | Wichita, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | Wichita, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Quivira Council BSA | Wichita, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rosies Snuggle Bunnies | Wichita, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Special Olympics | Kansas City, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wichita Fellowship Club | Wichita, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wichita Toy Run | Derby, KS | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Muscular Dystrophy Assoc | Wichita, KS | $895 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wichita Crime Commission | Wichita, KS | $600 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Carin Health | Wichita, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Shepard Episcopal Church | Wichita, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kansas Oxford House | Wichita, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Saint Elizabeth Ann Seaton | Wichita, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Wichita Rotary | Wichita, KS | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blue Aces Construction | Wichita, KS | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Serra Club | Wichita, KS | $250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Where its money goes
Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 94% of this one's giving went to organizations in Kansas. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.
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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.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Kansas.
- 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.
- 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 Goebel Family-Star Lumber Charitable Trust'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: Po Box 7712, Wichita, KS, 67277. 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.
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