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Government Employees Health Association Inc

Geha empowers our members to be healthy and well.

$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.4MHealth$1.0MPhilanthropy$935kYouth Development$449kHuman Services$432kHousing & Shelter$283kEmployment$208kFood & Nutrition$168kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 33 grants below total $2,124,294, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,359,277 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $234,983 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $421k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $161k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.5M
$15,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$2.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Kansas University Endowment Association$1,500,000
Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Kansas City$59,855
Wreaths Across America$50,846
Mama Glow Foundation$50,000
Smithsonian Institution$40,000
15 and the Mahomies Foundation$35,000
The Giving Grove$34,031
Carry The Load$31,462
Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Oklahoma City$26,170
Folds of Honor Kansas City$25,000
Young Mens Christian Association of Central Maryland$20,000
United Ways of the Pacific Northwest$15,594
The Childrens Place$15,286
Centerville-Farmington Rotary Club$15,000
The Major Brent Taylor Foundation$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $638k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $10k → 8%Mama Glow Foundation: $50k → 17%Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Oklahoma City: $26k → 16%Caregivers on the Homefront: $9k → 8%Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Kansas City: $60k → 15%FEDERAL EMPLOYEE EDUCATION & ASSISTANCE FUND: $163k → 9%Mercy Chefs: $15k → 20%Young Mens Christian Association of Central Maryland: $20k → 11%HEARTLAND HONOR FLIGHT: $20k → 8%FEDERAL EMPLOYEE EDUCATION & ASSISTANCE FUND: $23k → 9%HEARTLAND HONOR FLIGHT: $10k → 8%FEDERAL EMPLOYEE EDUCATION & ASSISTANCE FUND: $23k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 14%HEARTLAND HONOR FLIGHT: $5k → 8%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $13k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 15%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS: $7k → 15%Happy Bottoms: $15k → 15%Happy Bottoms: $8k → 15%United Inner City Services: $10k → 15%UNITED INNER CITY SERVICES: $8k → 15%UPLIFT ORGANIZATION: $6k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $25k → 15%HOPE HOUSE: $19k → 15%Hope House Inc: $17k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $14k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $13k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%BRA COUTURE KC: $6k → 15%Bra Couture KC: $6k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $10k → 15%BRA COUTURE KC: $6k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
NV
CT
CA
UT
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Government Employees Health Association Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 36% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 25%.

Government Employees Health Association Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 44 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
32

Total granted

$6.3M
$653k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $366k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TK
    The Kansas University Endowment Association
    2× · 2023–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +24%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $176k · revenue +43%
  • 1A
    15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2024 · $168k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • RF
    Rediscover Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $140k · revenue -56%
  • US
    UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $140k · revenue +98%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -40%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

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3
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
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
6
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
University Health Inc

Primary functions are the coordination and delivery of health care resources and services, health care education for the hospital service area, long range analysis of health care needs and development of programs, and arranging for…

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9
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…

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10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Kansas Children's Service League Foundation

To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.

Philanthropy
12
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City; the most unlike its peers is Hunt 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.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 92 of the 96 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/92
Grantees still filing
60/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Kansas University Endowment Association: $3,000,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment Association+7 more: $337,000 · Education+7 moreUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $790,967 · OtherUnited Way of Greater Kansas…Rediscover Foundation: $140,000 · OtherRediscover FoundationROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $91,200 · OtherHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $108,207 · OtherHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY F…TRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $81,500 · OtherHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $68,000 · Other+36 more: $575,423 · Other+36 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $175,604 · HealthAmerican He…TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $93,000 · HealthTURNER HOUS…BLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $75,000 · HealthBLUFORD HEA…The Children's Mercy Hospital: $70,500 · HealthThe Childre…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $62,331 · HealthBLOOD CANCE…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $49,204 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $35,386 · HealthFOOTPRINTS INC: $28,500 · HealthSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $26,000 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $25,000 · Health+7 more: $90,811 · Health+7 moreFEDERAL EMPLOYEE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FUND: $207,500 · Human ServicesFEDERAL EM…HOPE HOUSE INC: $107,946 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $66,855 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'…THE MAMA GLOW FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MAMA G…HEARTLAND HONOR FLIGHT: $35,200 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $26,170 · Human ServicesCommunity Services League of Jackson County: $23,500 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMS: $22,898 · Human Services+10 more: $129,000 · Human Services+10 moreBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $209,794 · Youth Development15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION: $167,500 · Youth Development+4 more: $41,170 · Youth DevelopmentUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $40,000 · Arts & CultureVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $107,145 · Public BenefitWreaths Across America: $50,846 · Public BenefitCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Public Benefit
Education$3,337,000Other$1,855,297Health$731,336Human Services$669,069Youth Development$418,464Arts & Culture$180,000Public Benefit$167,991

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $3,000,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Kansas City Inc: $790,967 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $209,794 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFEDERAL EMPLOYEE EDUCATION AND ASSISTANCE FUND: $207,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $175,604 over 4y, 0.0% of budget15 AND THE MAHOMIES FOUNDATION: $167,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetRediscover Foundation: $140,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $140,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $108,207 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC: $107,946 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $107,145 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR KANSAS CITY INC: $95,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $93,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $91,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTRUMAN HEARTLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $81,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $75,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $70,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $68,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $66,855 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $62,331 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRediscover: $59,881 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $50,846 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAMA GLOW FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $49,204 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHUNT FAMILY FOUNDATION: $43,102 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GIVING GROVE: $42,531 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $35,386 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND HONOR FLIGHT: $35,200 over 3y, 42% of budgetCARRY THE LOAD: $31,462 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOOTPRINTS INC: $28,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $26,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER OKLAHOMA CITY: $26,170 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANNAPOLIS AREA IMAGINATION LIBRARY: $25,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetCommunity Services League of Jackson County: $23,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $22,898 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED INNER CITY SERVICES INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…United Way of Greater…Oppenstein Brothers F…The Kansas City Royal…The H & R Block Found…The Sunderland Founda…Hallmark Corporate Fo…Jewish Community Foun…Jackson County Commun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Truman Heartland Comm…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO60.7× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Truman Heartland Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Government Employees Health Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Government Employees Health Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Central Maryland Inc: 22% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 96 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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