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Eric J Vosburgh Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$42k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$158kRecreation & Sports$72kReligion$33kHealth$9kYouth Development$4kHuman Services$983Arts & Culture$560Housing & Shelter$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
$658
Median grant
6
States reached
$359k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRE FOUNDATION$17,887
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS$8,734
OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY$6,157
OKLAHOMA STATE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$3,243
POKES WITH A PURPOSE$1,845
Individual grant recipient$1,206
KAPPA KAPPA GAMMA$805
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF EASTERN OKLAHOMA$658
FIRST TEE OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$520
GO 2 FOR LUNG CANCER$291
SETON CENTER$250
ST TERESAS ACADEMY$240
HEART STRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$100
NELSON GALLARY FOUNDATION$85
DTCARE ORG$50
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HEART STRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%HEART STRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $300 → 5%HEART STRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 → 5%HEART STRINGS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $100 → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$267k · 22 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
17

Total granted

$267k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+28%

Still filing today

36%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthPhilanthropyReligionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $100k · revenue +100%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +61%
  • HC
    Heartstrings Community Foundation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • LC
    LOVE CHLOE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +52%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF NE KANSAS
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • AD
    AMIGOS DE LAS AMERICAS
    one grant, 2017 · $250

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…

Philanthropy
2
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

3
Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…

Science & Tech
4
Greater Kansas City Sports Foundation

Foster and support amateur sports competition

Recreation & Sports
5
Washburn University Foundation

The Foundation was created to assist in the promotion, development and enhancement of the financial resources for Washburn University of Topeka, as well as to receive and hold in trust any assets given in benefit of the University.

Education
6
The Research Foundation

The research foundation invests in health-centered programs and partnerships that benefit health care students and professionals, patients, and people in the kansas city community.

Health
7
Hearts for Hearing Foundation

Hearts for hearing advocates for, educates about, and innovatively provides comprehensive, life-changing hearing healthcare for all ages.

Human Services
8
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
9
Kennedy Krieger Children's Hospital Inc

Kennedy krieger children's hospital (kkch) offers clinical programs to meet the specialized needs of children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. more than 35 different outpatient programs and four inpatient units address the…

Health
10
The National Fragile X Foundation

The national fragile x foundation serves the entire fragile x community to live their best lives by providing the knowledge, resources, and tools until, and even after, more effective treatments and a cure are achieved.

Health
11
Sunflower Foundation Health Care for Kansans

To assist the state of kansas in helping to improve the health of all kansans, particularly those unserved or underserved.

Health
12
Kansas Academy of Family Physicians

The mission of the kansas academy of family physicians is to empower and cultivate kansas family physicians to: serve as trusted and innovative leaders champion a diverse, sustainable and inclusive workforce advocate and collaborate for…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horizon Academy and the most unlike its peers is Frankovic Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 45 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS — $61,352 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICSCURE OF ARS — $29,273 · OtherCURE OF ARSOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY — $28,665 · OtherOKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYSt Teresa's Academy — $15,762 · OtherSt Teresa's Academy+30 more — $23,691 · Other+30 moreFOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC — $100,330 · ReligionFOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCA…Pokes With A Purpose Inc — $7,059 · Recreation & SportsLOVE CHLOE FOUNDATION — $3,000 · EducationHORIZON ACADEMY — $2,646 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $260 · EducationGROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $250 · EducationHeartstrings Community Foundation — $5,380 · Human ServicesGO2 For Lung Cancer — $291 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $150 · HealthUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $125 · HealthSHEFFIELD PLACE — $250 · Housing & Shelter
Other$158,743Religion$100,330Recreation & Sports$7,059Education$6,156Human Services$5,380Health$566Housing & Shelter$250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC — $100,330 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS — $61,352 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPokes With A Purpose Inc — $7,059 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeartstrings Community Foundation — $5,380 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE CHLOE FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHORIZON ACADEMY — $2,646 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeton Center Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION — $225 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANKOVIC FAMILY FOUNDATION — $200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC — $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America — $120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KANSAS CITY ROYALS FOUNDATION — $40 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR INCLUSIVE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INC
  • Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS
  • Who funds Pokes With A Purpose Inc
  • Who funds Heartstrings Community Foundation
  • Who funds LOVE CHLOE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HORIZON ACADEMY
  • Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC
  • Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE
  • Who funds Seton Center Inc
  • Who funds GROWING FUTURES EARLY EDUCATION CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FRANKOVIC FAMILY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER RESEARCH INSTITUTE
  • Who funds Great Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO20.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · The Sherman Family Foundation · Forster-Powers Charitable Trust · Bickimer Family Foundation · The McGee Foundation · McCullough Family Foundation · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Eric J Vosburgh Charitable Trust funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 45 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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