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K & A Spease Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$44kHealth$42kFood & Nutrition$27kRecreation & Sports$23kHuman Services$23kInternational$18kYouth Development$13kPhilanthropy$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$21k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Elk Grove Regional Scholarship Foundatio$5,475
Christian Brothers High School$5,000
Rotary International$4,483
Individual grant recipient$3,500
Elk Grove Food Bank$3,500
Sacramento County Sheriff's Activit$2,500
Chicks and Crisis$2,500
The Human Values 4 Kids Foundation$2,500
Heart of JB$1,500
Elk Grove Youth Sports Foundation$1,300
Elk Grove Rotary Foundation$500
Individual grant recipient$450
Runnin for Rhett$162
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 (FY21–25, $48k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Fly Brave Foundation: $1k → 12%Fly Brave Foundation: $26 → 12%Elk Grove Food Bank: $15k → 12%Elk Grove Food Bank: $6k → 12%Elk Grove Food Bank: $4k → 12%Chicks and Crisis: $4k → 12%Elk Grove Food Bank: $4k → 12%Chicks and Crisis: $3k → 12%Chicks and Crisis: $3k → 12%Chicks and Crisis: $3k → 12%Chicks and Crisis: $3k → 12%Heart of JB: $2k → 12%Elk Grove Food Bank: $1k → 12%Heart of JB: $800 → 12%Elk Grove Adult Community Training: $140 → 12%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$243k · 32 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
11

Total granted

$243k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+16%

Still filing today

56%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $31k · revenue +33%
  • EG
    Elk Grove Food Bank
    5× · 2021–2025 · $29k · revenue +9%
  • CI
    Chicks in Crisis Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • LC
    Laguna Creek High School Booster
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • XH
    X Hope Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +46%
  • EG
    ELK GROVE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $600
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
The Elm Grove Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Eagle Ridge Youth Ranch

Equine services offered to disadvantaged youth.

Human Services
3
Hard Knox of Elk Grove Baseball
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4
Egusd First Foundation

Educational foundation opportun

Education
5
Epilepsy Society of Kern County
Health
6
The California Boys & Girls State Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Elk Grove Musical Theatre Company Jr

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Elgin Cares
Human Services
9
Sacramento Kings Foundation
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10
Morgan Hill Kiwanis Youth Fund
Youth Development
11
Corvallis Elks Charity Trust
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12
Elves & More of Northest Ohio

We are an organization dedicated to bringing hope each year to approximately 1000 children living in the Northeast Ohio area Our sole intent is to bring hope to children living in poverty within our community and connect them with…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Elk Grove Youth Sports Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 45 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Elk Grove Regional Scholarship Foundatio: $36,575 · OtherElk Grove Regional Scholarship FoundatioCHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL OF SACRAMENTO INC: $15,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL OF SACRAMENTO INCRotary International: $13,448 · OtherRotary InternationalIndividual grant recipient: $10,578 · OtherIndividual grant recipientProject Ride Inc: $9,437 · OtherProject Ride IncRotary District 5180 Foundation: $9,065 · OtherRotary District 5180 FoundationLaguna Sunrise Rotary Foundation: $5,950 · OtherSacramento County Sheriff's Activit: $4,500 · Other+22 more: $30,381 · Other+22 moreElk Grove Food Bank: $29,312 · Human ServicesElk Grove Food BankChicks in Crisis Inc: $15,315 · Human ServicesChicks in Crisis IncHEART OF JB: $2,300 · Human Services+2 more: $1,166 · Human ServicesAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,762 · HealthAmerican Hear…LAGUNA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $6,500 · EducationHUMAN VALUES 4 KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationRunnin For Rhett: $2,307 · EducationELK GROVE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $1,500 · EducationELK GROVE YOUTH BASEBALL: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsElk Grove Youth Sports Foundation: $3,400 · Recreation & SportsCOSUMNES LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTEEN CENTER USA: $5,229 · Youth DevelopmentELK GROVE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION: $600 · Youth Development
Other$134,934Human Services$48,093Health$30,762Education$12,807Recreation & Sports$12,400Philanthropy$10,000Youth Development$5,829

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $30,762 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetElk Grove Food Bank: $29,312 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetChicks in Crisis Inc: $15,315 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetProject Ride Inc: $9,437 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetELK GROVE YOUTH BASEBALL: $9,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetLAGUNA SUNRISE ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetTEEN CENTER USA: $5,229 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetElk Grove Youth Sports Foundation: $3,400 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAL-MISBAAH: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN VALUES 4 KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRunnin For Rhett: $2,307 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHEART OF JB: $2,300 over 2y, 2.2% of budget3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $2,036 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA: $1,590 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELK GROVE ROTARY FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetX Hope Inc: $1,339 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $1,026 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetELK GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $945 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetELK GROVE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION: $600 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE: $483 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetElk Grove Adult Community Training Inc: $140 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 Elk Grove Youth Sports Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AL-MISBAAH ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN VALUES 4 KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Runnin For Rhett ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF JB ↗
  • Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN LEGION DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds ELK GROVE ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds X Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ELK GROVE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ELK GROVE OPTIMIST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FIREFIGHTERS BURN INSTITUTE ↗

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Gil Moore Family Foun…California Foundation…Sierra Health Foundat…Enterprise Holdings F…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 K & A Spease Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K & A Spease Foundation. 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%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 45 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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