· Private foundation
John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k38 grants · $840k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $850k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN | $250,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $250,000 |
| TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE | $200,000 |
| PRO DEO YOUTH CENTER | $125,000 |
| DONNELLY COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| SHELTER KC dba KANSAS CITY RESCUE | $100,000 |
| KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC | $75,000 |
| ARTS COUNCIL OF METRO GREATER KC | $75,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE | $75,000 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY | $50,000 |
| TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC dba | $50,000 |
| EL CENTRO INC | $45,000 |
| KIDS TLC INC | $40,000 |
| MOCSA | $40,000 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY | $35,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
73 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- DCDonnelly College8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +166%
- KCKansas City Hospice Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +33%
- MOMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- KCKANSAS CITY KS COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $300k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $250k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEMone grant, 2018 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance
To protect and promote the well-being of children by providing ongoing support of the charitable mission of the kansas children's service league.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
89 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 89 of the 142 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Donnelly College ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds AdventHealth Kansas City Foundation ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
- Who funds TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds KC Healthy Kids ↗
- Who funds Seton Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPYBOTTOMS ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds PRO DEO YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
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.
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
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 John W and Effie E Speas Memorial 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.
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.