FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM INC

EIN 48-0671136 WICHITA, KS

Revenue 2025: $56,316
Expenses 2025: $34,208

Program services were 70.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: A51I
Classification: 1230
Street: PO BOX 780223

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO SUPPORT THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM PROGRAMS, TO ESTABLISH A PERMANENT ENDOWMENT FOR ART ACQUISITIONS, EXHIBITIONS, AND EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE WICHITA METROPOLITAN COMMUNITY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM (ORGANIZATION) IS A VOLUNTEER GROUP WHOSE MISSION IS TO SUPPORT THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM. IT'S PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY INITIATING AND IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS THAT PROMOTE PARTICIPATION AND GENERATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE FRIENDS OF THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM ENDOWMENT FUNDS, PROMOTE VOLUNTEER SUPPORT FOR THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM, AND PROMOTE EDUCATION AND INTEREST IN THE VISUAL ARTS.

THE ORGANIZATION HAS ESTABLISHED FOUR FUNDS (NAMELY THE GENERAL ENDOWMENT FUND, LIBRARY ENDOWMENT FUND, HOWARD E. WOODEN LECTURE SERIES ENDOWMENT FUND, AND SPECIAL GIFT FUND), AT THE WICHITA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MUSEUM. DURING 2025, NO OUTSIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENDOWMENT FUNDS WERE RECIEVED. AT DECEMBER 31, 2025 THE ENDOWMENT FUNDS HAVE A COMBINED VALUE OF APPROXIMATELY 3.4 MILLION. THE ENDOWMMENT FUNDS PROVIDED APPROXIMATELY 152,000 OF SUPPORT TO THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM IN 2025.
ART TRIPS AND EVENTS ARE CONDUCTED TO PROMOTE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC BY INITIATING AND IMPLEMENTING PROGRAMS, ACTIVITIES, AND EVENTS THAT PROMOTE PARTICIPATION AND GENERATE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE WICHITA ART MUSEUM.

Expenses $23,979 · Revenue $17,115

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

BRENDA ALDINGER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
NOAH ALEXANDER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JOY ARCHER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
PATTY ARMSTRONG

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
KENNETH ARNOLD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SUSAN ARNOLD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JOAN BARRIER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
PATTY BENNETT

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
KATHRYN BLACK

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JESSICA BRANNING

PRESIDENT

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MICKIE BROWN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
GENA DILLARD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CLAUDIA GONZALES

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
DANIEL GONZALES

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SUZANNE GRAHAM

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
JENNIFER WHIPPLE GRIFFIN

VICE PRESIDE

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
BOBBI HANSEN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
MADELINE JANZEN

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CONNIE KENDALL

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
BETTY KREHBIEL

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CHIAW-WEAI LOO

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
PATTI MANN

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
SHERRI MCDONALD

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CATHY MCELROY

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2
CINDY MILLER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

2

The first 25 listed. Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2025

Revenue

$56,316

Expenses

$34,208

Contributions

$2,479

Grants paid

$0
2024

Revenue

$42,842

Expenses

$20,552

Contributions

$3,857

Grants paid

$100
2023

Revenue

$41,897

Expenses

$26,339

Contributions

$3,923

Grants paid

$100
2022

Revenue

$34,621

Expenses

$39,181

Contributions

$3,186

Grants paid

$15,100

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2025	$56,316	$34,208	$2,479	$0
2024	$42,842	$20,552	$3,857	$100
2023	$41,897	$26,339	$3,923	$100
2022	$34,621	$39,181	$3,186	$15,100

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$28,039

Expenses

$29,717

Assets (EOY)

$73,119
2020 · 990

Revenue

$8,015

Expenses

$17,499

Assets (EOY)

$71,907
2019 · 990

Revenue

$56,067

Expenses

$61,354

Assets (EOY)

$93,029
2018 · 990

Revenue

$52,533

Expenses

$47,771

Assets (EOY)

$85,515
2017 · 990

Revenue

$31,836

Expenses

$41,789

Assets (EOY)

$91,727
2016 · 990

Revenue

$57,791

Expenses

$66,384

Assets (EOY)

$101,831
2015 · 990

Revenue

$70,640

Expenses

$76,360

Assets (EOY)

$110,441
2014 · 990

Revenue

$122,954

Expenses

$114,480

Assets (EOY)

$100,441
2013 · 990

Revenue

$119,227

Expenses

$592,627

Assets (EOY)

$92,847
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$147,298

Assets (EOY)

$567,250

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$28,039	$29,717	$73,119
2020	990	$8,015	$17,499	$71,907
2019	990	$56,067	$61,354	$93,029
2018	990	$52,533	$47,771	$85,515
2017	990	$31,836	$41,789	$91,727
2016	990	$57,791	$66,384	$101,831
2015	990	$70,640	$76,360	$110,441
2014	990	$122,954	$114,480	$100,441
2013	990	$119,227	$592,627	$92,847
2012	990	not reported	$147,298	$567,250

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

WICHITA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

$15,100

2022 GRANTS TO ENDOWMENTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MUSEUM.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

No itemized grant names this organization as a recipient. Only grants over $5,000 are itemized, and only by filers of the full Form 990.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.