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John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$6.0MEducation$3.5MHuman Services$2.3MArts & Culture$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.2MCrime & Legal$826kHousing & Shelter$390kScience & Tech$350kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k38 grants · $840k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $850k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION$250,000
KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FDN$250,000
TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE$200,000
PRO DEO YOUTH CENTER$125,000
SHELTER KC dba KANSAS CITY RESCUE$100,000
DONNELLY COLLEGE$100,000
KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC$75,000
YOUNG WOMEN ON THE MOVE$75,000
ARTS COUNCIL OF METRO GREATER KC$75,000
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY$50,000
TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC dba$50,000
EL CENTRO INC$45,000
MOCSA$40,000
KIDS TLC INC$40,000
CHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY$35,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $30k → 8%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $15k → 16%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $30k → 8%SUPPORT KANSAS CITY INC: $60k → 5%KANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $15k → 16%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $30k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $30k → 8%SYNERY SERVICES INC: $30k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $20k → 8%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $50k → 16%GREATER KC LINC INC: $50k → 15%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $40k → 16%FAMILY CONSERVANCY INC: $40k → 16%THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $40k → 16%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $35k → 16%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $35k → 16%FAMILY CONSERVANCY INC: $30k → 16%SAFEHOME INC: $40k → 5%FAMILY CONSERVANCY INC: $30k → 16%SAFEHOME INC: $35k → 5%KC HEALTHY KIDS: $30k → 16%SAFEHOME INC: $30k → 5%FAMILY CONSERVANCY INC: $25k → 16%SAFEHOME INC: $30k → 5%SAFEHOME INC: $25k → 5%FAMILY CONSERVANCY INC: $25k → 16%SAFEHOME INC: $20k → 5%FAMILY CONSERVANCY INC: $20k → 16%SAFEHOME INC: $20k → 5%FAMILY CONSERVANCY INC: $20k → 16%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $30k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $150k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $100k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $75k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $75k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $75k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $70k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $60k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $60k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE INC: $50k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $40k → 15%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $30k → 15%KANSAS CHILDREN'S SERVICE LEAGUE: $20k → 5%CROSS LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $25k → 16%CROSS LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 16%CROSS LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH: $20k → 16%CROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $20k → 16%JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $50k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 73 repeat orgs$3.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
50

Total granted

$14M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+17%

Still filing today

70%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k 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
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalEmploymentOther
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

  • DC
    Donnelly College
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +166%
  • KC
    Kansas City Hospice Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +33%
  • MO
    METROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +224%

Funded once

  • KC
    KANSAS CITY KS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • CO
    CASA OF JACKSON & WYANDOTTE COUNTIES
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH
    one grant, 2017 · $250k
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
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
2
Kansas City Care Clinic

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.

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3
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
4
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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5
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
6
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
7
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
8
Kansas Association of Community Action Programs Inc

Kacap supports community action agencies and other human services organizations in thier local, state and national efforts to end poverty.

Public Benefit
9
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
10
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
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 City Christian School Association

To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safehome Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

89 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. 89 of the 142 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/89
Grantees still filing
58/89
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLE: $1,521,999 · OtherTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER CHARITABLEKANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT: $850,000 · OtherKANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENTGREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY: $530,000 · OtherGREATER KANSAS CITY COMMUNITYKIDSTLC INC: $365,000 · OtherNELSON-ATKINS MUSEUM OF ART: $360,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY: $330,000 · OtherKANSAS CITY KS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $300,000 · Other+76 more: $4,701,992 · Other+76 moreDonnelly College: $1,330,000 · EducationDonnelly CollegeThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $750,000 · EducationThe Kansas Universit…KANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EducationKANSAS CITY KANSAS C…MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationMIDAMERICA NAZARENE …OTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 · EducationOTTAWA UNIVERSITYTHE LITERACY LAB: $120,000 · EducationWONDERSCOPE INC: $110,000 · Education+4 more: $155,000 · EducationKansas City Hospice Inc: $715,000 · Human ServicesKansas City H…THE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $230,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY CO…SAFEHOME INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INCKC Healthy Kids: $190,000 · Human ServicesKC Healthy Ki…SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVI…HAPPYBOTTOMS: $160,000 · Human ServicesHAPPYBOTTOMSCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $85,000 · Human Services+8 more: $315,000 · Human Services+8 moreAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $660,000 · HealthAdventHea…TURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $290,000 · HealthTURNER HO…FRIENDSHIP INN KC INC: $100,000 · HealthFRIENDSHI…KVC HOSPITALS INC: $90,000 · HealthKVC HOSPI…MERCY & TRUTH HEALTHCARE MINISTRY INC: $75,000 · HealthCARITAS CLINICS INC: $55,000 · Health+8 more: $182,191 · Health+8 morePUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $270,000 · Arts & CulturePERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $156,046 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $45,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $112,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $380,000 · Crime & LegalSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC: $195,675 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $50,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $20,000 · Crime & LegalEL CENTRO INC: $280,749 · Community ImprovementLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $75,000 · Community Improvement
Other$8,958,991Education$3,115,000Human Services$2,065,000Health$1,452,191Arts & Culture$913,046Crime & Legal$645,675Community Improvement$355,749

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDonnelly College: $1,330,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $750,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $715,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $660,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ORGANIZATION COUNTERING SEXUAL ASSAULT: $380,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $365,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTURNER HOUSE CLINIC INC: $290,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetEL CENTRO INC: $280,749 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC: $270,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKANSAS CITY KANSAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetTHE FAMILY CONSERVANCY: $230,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $200,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetMIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOTTAWA UNIVERSITY: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSUNFLOWER HOUSE INC: $195,675 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER: $191,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetKC Healthy Kids: $190,000 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetSeton Center Inc: $185,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC: $170,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $160,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetPERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY: $156,046 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetMETROPOLITAN ARTS COUNCIL OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $150,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $140,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC: $130,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LITERACY LAB: $120,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC: $110,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetThe Whole Person Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDSHIP INN KC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetKVC HOSPITALS INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCROSS-LINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC: $85,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMERCY & TRUTH HEALTHCARE MINISTRY INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LAUNCHCODE FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF KANSAS CITY: $70,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetKANSAS CHILDRENS SERVICE LEAGUE: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWildwood Outdoor Education Center: $64,855 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSupport Kansas City Inc: $60,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCARITAS CLINICS INC: $55,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI: $55,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGREATER KC LINC INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBACH ARIA SOLOISTS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY: $45,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSN OF KS & GREATER KC: $42,191 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetKC COMMON GOOD INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.9% 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.

  • 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 SAFEHOME INC ↗
  • Who funds MIDAMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • 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 ↗

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…The Sunderland Founda…The H & R Block Found…Oppenstein Brothers F…Ewing Marion Kauffman…R a Long Foundation 6…Jewish Community Foun…Menorah Heritage Foun…The Kansas City Royal…The Francis Family Fo…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO102.9× affinity70 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 · 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
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 John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    35report 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 142 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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