· Private foundation
Spectrum Health Foundation Inc
THE MISSION OF SPECTRUM HEALTH FOUNDATION IS TO PROMOTE EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH CARE, SUPPORT LOCAL AND REGIONAL 501C3 FOUNDATIONS, AND GIFT TO CAUSES THAT REFLECT THE FOUNDERS' IDEALS THROUGH CHARITABLE DONATIONS.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST | $50,000 |
| THE LORD'S DINER | $14,000 |
| CENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| REEDSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| WELLINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CAMP ENCOURAGE | $8,000 |
| WELLNESS FOR AFRICA INC | $7,305 |
| ST FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH | $7,305 |
| KANSAS HONOR FLIGHT | $6,308 |
| DUO DOGS INC | $5,000 |
| JOY MEADOWS INC | $5,000 |
| RESURRECTION CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HEART OF THE NATION | $5,000 |
| ST PAUL UNIVERSITY PARISH | $5,000 |
| BELLE PLAINE METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $299k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% 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.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- MTMOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST INC7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +87% · 30% of their budget
- CECamp Encourage8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +151%
- KHKANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC6× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- KCKANSAS CITY PET PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +6%
- MTMOTHER TERESA CHARTIABLE TRUST INCone grant, 2017 · $13k
- ASAUTISM SOCIETY-THE HEARTLANDone grant, 2017 · $11k
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.
Humankind ministries provides street outreach, shelter, affordable housing, supportive services, and basic needs to those experiencing homelessness or poverty in sedgwick county. recognizing the inherent value of each person, we serve the…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Guided by God's love, our mission is to provide compassionate service to all people in need throughout northern Kansas. We do this in a variety of ways which include (a) financial and housing assistance, (b) personal care and basic needs…
The organization provides hospice care services within the archdiocese of kansas city in kansas as well as the greater metropolitan areas of kansas city, kansas and kansas city, missouri.
The kansas humane society is a community resource for pets and people, dedicated to enhancing the welfare of all companion animals.
Villa st francis, a catholic, non-profit skilled nursing facility sponsored by the archdiocese of kansas city in olathe, provides dementia care, skilled nursing, respite, and hospice.
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.
Care Beyond the Boulevard (CBB) provides quality medical care, case management, and respite services to the homeless, uninsured, and vulnerable people of Greater Kansas City.
To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.
To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reedsport Volunteer Fire Department Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 44 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 MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Encourage ↗
- Who funds KANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Wellness for Africa ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Happy Hearts Working Inc ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT ↗
- Who funds JOY MEADOWS INC ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds WELLINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds INCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds REEDSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN SCHOLASTIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUO DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Servant Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Spectrum Health Foundation Inc 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.
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