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Spaulding Family 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PRINCIPIA | $25,500 |
| CAMP NEWFOUND OWATONNA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,500 |
| ST ANNE'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| NELSON-ATKINS FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,500 |
| TRUMAN LIBRARY | $6,300 |
| ABILITY KC | $6,000 |
| KC GIRLS PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OMEGA CHI CHAPTER-FRATERNITY OF PHI GAMMA DELTA | $5,000 |
| ADVENTURE UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| COLORADO ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| 7TH CHURCH | $4,570 |
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, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 10 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- TPThe Principia Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $128k · revenue +69%
- CNCamp Newfound Owatonna Corporation5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +167%
- AUADVENTURE UNLIMITED4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- TMTRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +22%
- BTBRIDGE TO THE FUTUREgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +54%
PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -32%
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.
The kansas city museum foundation preserves, interprets, and celebrates kansas city through collections, exhibitions, and bold programs that reflect the city's evolution and spirit, and engage visitors in unfolding stories about kansas…
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
To protect and preserve lands of natural, ecological, scenic, historic, agricultural, or recreational significance in kansas.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.
To promote inspired benevolence in accordance with the teachings of christian science.
To secure and provide funds and resources to enhance student learning in the kansas city public schools.
The mission of the kauffman school is to prepare students to excel academically, graduate from college and apply their unique talents in the world to create economically independent and personally fulfilling lives.
The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
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 Umkc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Watson Youth Golf Foundation. 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 40 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 12% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 108 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 The Principia Corporation ↗
- Who funds Linda Hall Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds Camp Newfound Owatonna Corporation ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
- Who funds POWELL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds PEACE HAVEN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
- Who funds POLICE FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Denver Ballet Guild ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds HYMNSTREAM ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Francis Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The H & R Block Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · The Sosland Foundation · Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation 10018904 · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · The Torosian Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch 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 Spaulding Family 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.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% of income from government
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.
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