California · Private foundation
K & A Spease Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $33k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,475
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 30
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $21k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations K & A Spease Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $33k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $65k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $68k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $47k | 42% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $41k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Heart Association Inc | $30,762 | 4 | 0% |
| Elk Grove Food Bank | $29,312 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicks in Crisis Inc | $15,315 | 5 | 1% |
| Christian Brothers High School of Sacramento Inc | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cosumnes Legacy Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Project Ride Inc | $9,437 | 4 | 1% |
| Elk Grove Youth Baseball | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Laguna Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation | $6,500 | 2 | 9% |
| Teen Center USA | $5,229 | 4 | 1% |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Heart Association Inc | $30,762 | 4 | 0% |
| Elk Grove Food Bank | $29,312 | 5 | 0% |
| Chicks in Crisis Inc | $15,315 | 5 | 1% |
| Christian Brothers High School of Sacramento Inc | $15,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Cosumnes Legacy Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Project Ride Inc | $9,437 | 4 | 1% |
| Elk Grove Youth Baseball | $9,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Laguna Sunrise Rotary Club Foundation | $6,500 | 2 | 9% |
| Teen Center USA | $5,229 | 4 | 1% |
| Catholic Community Services of Utah | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Elk Grove Youth Sports Foundation | $3,400 | 4 | 2% |
| Al-Misbaah | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Human Values 4 Kids Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Runnin For Rhett | $2,307 | 5 | 0% |
| Heart of Jb | $2,300 | 2 | 2% |
| 3strands Global Foundation | $2,036 | 3 | 0% |
| The American Legion Department of California | $1,590 | 2 | 0% |
| Elk Grove Rotary Foundation | $1,500 | 3 | 0% |
| X Hope Inc | $1,339 | 1 | 0% |
| Fly Brave Foundation | $1,026 | 2 | 1% |
| Elk Grove Historical Society | $945 | 3 | 0% |
| Elk Grove Optimist Foundation | $600 | 1 | 3% |
| Firefighters Burn Institute | $483 | 2 | 0% |
| Asian Peace Officers Association | $325 | 1 | n/a |
| Elk Grove Adult Community Training Inc | $140 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($97k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget K & A Spease Foundation 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: 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
How this is measured
About K & A Spease Foundation
- How much does K & A Spease Foundation give?
- K & A Spease Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $33,370 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 30 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does K & A Spease Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Health (19%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are K & A Spease Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: American Heart Association Inc ($31k), Elk Grove Food Bank ($29k), Chicks in Crisis Inc ($15k).
- Does K & A Spease Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does K & A Spease Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as K & A Spease Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Gil Moore Family Foundation, California Foundation for Stronger Communities.
- Where is K & A Spease Foundation based?
- K & A Spease Foundation is based in CA.
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