Texas · Private foundation
John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 51
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 46
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $36M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 51 | $2.2M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $2.0M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $2.1M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $2.2M | 26% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $1.9M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $1.9M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.8M | 36% |
| FY2018 | 43 | $1.7M | 74% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donnelly College | $1,330,000 | 8 | 6% |
| The Kansas University Endowment Association | $750,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kansas City Hospice Inc | $715,000 | 9 | 1% |
| AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation | $660,000 | 3 | 8% |
| Metropolitan Organization Countering Sexual Assault | $380,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Kidstlc Inc | $365,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Turner House Clinic Inc | $290,000 | 6 | 3% |
| El Centro Inc | $280,749 | 4 | 4% |
| Public Television 19 Inc | $270,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Kansas City Kansas Community College Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 8% |
Show all 93 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Sunderland Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · R a Long Foundation 600 Plaza West Bldg · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Menorah Heritage Foundation · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust
- How much does John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust give?
- John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust reported 51 grants totaling $2,204,855 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 46 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (34%), Education (20%), Human Services (13%).
- Who are John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Donnelly College ($1.3M), The Kansas University Endowment Association ($750k), Kansas City Hospice Inc ($715k).
- Does John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Health Forward Foundation, United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc.
- Where is John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust based?
- John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust is based in TX.
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