· Private foundation
K & A Spease Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Elk Grove Food Bank | $15,465 |
| Elk Grove Regional Scholarship Foundatio | $10,500 |
| American Heart Association | $5,000 |
| Consumnes Legacy Foundation | $5,000 |
| Chicks and Crisis | $3,667 |
| Rotary International | $3,600 |
| Laguna Sunrise Rotary Foundation | $3,000 |
| Elk Grove Youth Baseball | $3,000 |
| Teen Center USA | $2,104 |
| Sacramento County Sheriff's Activit | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,578 |
| Project RIDE Inc | $1,578 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,372 |
| Elk Grove Youth Sports Foundation | $1,100 |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +33%
- EGElk Grove Food Bank4× · 2021–2024 · $26k · revenue +9%
- CIChicks in Crisis Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $13k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- LCLaguna Creek High School Boosterone grant, 2023 · $3k
- XHX Hope Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +46%
- EGELK GROVE OPTIMIST FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $600
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.
Equine services offered to disadvantaged youth.
Educational foundation opportun
We teach children acting, dance, and vocal skills. The teaching culminates in high-quality, low cost children's and youth theatrical performances. We serve all children including differently abled youth and socioeconomically challenged…
To raise funds for Rotary Club of South Ukiah community projects
17Girls Softball League - Ages 5 - 16 Approx 517 girls.
A Global volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to the educations and training they need to achieve economic empowerment
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elk Grove Youth Sports Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Heart of Jb. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 43 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Elk Grove Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Chicks in Crisis Inc ↗
- Who funds COSUMNES LEGACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Project Ride Inc ↗
- Who funds ELK GROVE YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds LAGUNA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEEN CENTER USA ↗
- Who funds AL-MISBAAH ↗
- Who funds Runnin For Rhett ↗
- Who funds Elk Grove Youth Sports Foundation ↗
- Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds X Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELK GROVE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELK GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HEART OF JB ↗
- Who funds ELK GROVE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Gil Moore Family Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Sierra Health Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 K & A Spease Foundation 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.