· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $288k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $315,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM | $40,000 |
| UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC | $37,500 |
| NATIONAL WORLD WAR I MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL | $30,000 |
| STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY | $25,000 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ARTS & REC FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND PARK INC | $20,000 |
| ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UMKC FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WONDERSCOPE MUSEUM | $12,500 |
| WONDERSCOPE MUSEUM | $12,500 |
| GLOBAL CARE FORCE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $608k 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION2× · 2020–2021 · $800k · revenue +77%
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +11%
- ARARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND4× · 2020–2024 · $98k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -83%
- TDTHREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIESone grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
- UBUMKC BLOCH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
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.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.
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.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
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 sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shaw Family 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 13% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 82 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 WONDERSCOPE INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds THREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds BLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HNC LIVING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Design Center ↗
- Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Journey to New Life INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds American Public Square Inc ↗
- Who funds Overland Park Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CARE FORCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU 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 · 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
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 V & H Charitable 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.
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.