Kansas · Private foundation
V & H Charitable 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.
- $711k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $315,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations V & H Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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 | 16 | $711k | 63% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $1.6M | 29% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $7k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.7M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $3.6M | 27% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $2.4M | 95% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $113k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $262k | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wonderscope Inc | $8,034,497 | 7 | 79% |
| Kansas State University Foundation | $800,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Alumni Association of Kansas State University | $355,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Johnson County Community College Foundation | $106,900 | 5 | 1% |
| Arts & Recreation Foundation of Overland | $97,750 | 4 | 1% |
| Johnson County Museum Foundation | $75,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Kvc Health Systems Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Three Dog Night Charities | $70,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Heart to Heart International Inc | $60,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Hnc Living Foundation | $52,500 | 2 | 4% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($642k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
V & H Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · Communityamerica Credit Union · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About V & H Charitable Foundation
- How much does V & H Charitable Foundation give?
- V & H Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $710,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does V & H Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Philanthropy (6%), Health (3%).
- Who are V & H Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Wonderscope Inc ($8.0M), Kansas State University Foundation ($800k), Alumni Association of Kansas State University ($355k).
- Does V & H Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does V & H Charitable 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 V & H Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, The Sunderland Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
- Where is V & H Charitable Foundation based?
- V & H Charitable Foundation is based in KS.
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