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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.

$187k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$341kFood & Nutrition$158kHealth$106kEducation$97kReligion$87kPublic Benefit$40kInternational$26kAnimals$20kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST$50,000
THE LORD'S DINER$14,000
REEDSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT$10,000
WELLINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$10,000
CENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE$10,000
CAMP ENCOURAGE$8,000
ST FRANCIS DE SALES CHURCH$7,305
WELLNESS FOR AFRICA INC$7,305
KANSAS HONOR FLIGHT$6,308
ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS RESEARCH$5,000
KANSAS FOOD BANK$5,000
HEART OF THE NATION$5,000
BELLE PLAINE METHODIST CHURCH$5,000
DUO DOGS INC$5,000
RESURRECTION CATHOLIC SCHOOL$5,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $15k → 15%CENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 16%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $11k → 15%CENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE: $10k → 16%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $10k → 15%JOY MEADOWS INC: $7k → 10%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $10k → 15%MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST: $50k → 5%JOY MEADOWS INC: $5k → 10%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $10k → 15%MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST: $37k → 5%JOY MEADOWS INC: $5k → 10%CENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE: $7k → 16%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $8k → 15%MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST: $17k → 5%JOY MEADOWS INC: $2k → 10%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $8k → 15%CENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE: $5k → 16%CAMP ENCOURAGE: $8k → 15%MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST: $13k → 5%MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST: $10k → 5%MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST: $10k → 5%MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST: $9k → 5%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $8k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $6k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $4k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 16%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $3k → 16%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$797k · 28 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
10

Total granted

$797k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+6%

Still filing today

50%
10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPublic BenefitInternationalEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MT
    MOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +87% · 30% of their budget
  • CE
    Camp Encourage
    8× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +151%
  • KH
    KANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • KC
    KANSAS CITY PET PROJECT
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +6%
  • MT
    MOTHER TERESA CHARTIABLE TRUST INC
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • AS
    AUTISM SOCIETY-THE HEARTLAND
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
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
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
2
Humankind Ministries Wichita Inc

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…

Religion
3
Catholic Charities of Northern Kansas Inc

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…

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4
Catholic Community Hospice of Northeast Kansas Inc

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.

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5
Cares Ks Foundation
Animals
6
Kansas Humane Society of Wichita Kansas

The kansas humane society is a community resource for pets and people, dedicated to enhancing the welfare of all companion animals.

Animals
7
Kansas City Care Clinic

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.

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8
Villa St Francis Catholic Care Center Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Care Beyond the Boulevard Inc

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.

Health
10
Second Chance Animal Refuge Society

No kill animal refuge for abused and homeless animals.

Animals
11
Wichita Falls Faith Mission Inc

To provide christ-centered programs and services that lead the homeless toward self-sufficiency.

Religion
12
Kansas Food Bank Foundation Inc

To serve as a fundraising and support organization for the kansas foodbank warehouse, inc.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LORD'S DINER: $88,715 · OtherTHE LORD'S DINERST ANTHONYS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $47,805 · OtherST ANTHONYS CATHOLIC CHURCHRESURRECTION CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $32,500 · OtherRESURRECTION CATHOLIC SCHOOLUSD 357 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $27,500 · OtherUSD 357 SCHOOL DISTRICTCENTRAL AVE CENTER OF HOPE: $26,000 · OtherCENTRAL AVE CENTER OF HOPEIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherGuadalupe Clinic Inc: $15,500 · Other+26 more: $188,042 · Other+26 moreMOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $145,390 · Human ServicesMOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST INCCamp Encourage: $79,750 · Human ServicesCamp EncourageCENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE INC: $32,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCJOY MEADOWS INC: $18,740 · Human ServicesJOY MEADOWS INCKANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC: $40,048 · Public BenefitWellness for Africa: $26,305 · InternationalKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $22,500 · Food & NutritionHappy Hearts Working Inc: $21,000 · EmploymentKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $20,000 · Animals
Other$463,062Human Services$298,880Public Benefit$40,048International$26,305Food & Nutrition$22,500Employment$21,000Animals$20,000

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 budgetMOTHER TERESA CHARITABLE TRUST INC: $145,390 over 7y, 30% of budgetCamp Encourage: $79,750 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetKANSAS HONOR FLIGHT INC: $40,048 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL AVENUE CENTER OF HOPE INC: $32,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetWellness for Africa: $26,305 over 4y, 21% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKANSAS FOODBANK WAREHOUSE INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHappy Hearts Working Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY PET PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOY MEADOWS INC: $18,740 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGuadalupe Clinic Inc: $15,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWELLINGTON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetINCLUSION CONNECTIONS INC: $14,305 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetREEDSPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetURBAN SCHOLASTIC CENTER: $8,240 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $7,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDUO DOGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 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 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 ↗

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.

Greater Kansas City C…Commerce Bancshares F…Servant FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Natl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO14.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Spectrum Health Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Spectrum Health Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get 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 · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Spectrum Health Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Spectrum Health Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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