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V & H Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$315k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$9.6MPhilanthropy$755kHealth$338kArts & Culture$317kHuman Services$145kRecreation & Sports$98kCrime & Legal$83kInternational$78kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $288k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
  • $250k+1 grant · $315k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$9.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY$25,000
ARTS & REC FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND PARK INC$20,000
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY$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
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%SAFEHOME INC: $3k → 5%SAFEHOME INC: $2k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 5%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE: $1k → 15%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE: $5k → 15%VILLAGE SHALOM: $10k → 5%CENTER OF GRACE: $5k → 5%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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.8M · 30 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
39

Total granted

$9.8M
$462k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+23%

Still filing today

63%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $608k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $800k · revenue +77%
  • JC
    JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +11%
  • AR
    ARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND
    4× · 2020–2024 · $98k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • JC
    JOHNSON COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -83%
  • TD
    THREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES
    one grant, 2024 · $70k · revenue 0%
  • UB
    UMKC BLOCH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Kansas Healthcare Collaborative Inc

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.

Health
2
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

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.

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3
Jefferson Regional Foundation

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…

Health
4
Kansas Legal Services Inc

Kansas legal services is devoted to helping low income kansans meet their basic needs through the provision of important legal and mediation services.

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5
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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6
Bike Share Kc

Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.

Human Services
7
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
8
University of Kansas Memorial Corporation

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…

Education
9
The Kansas University Alumni Association

We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.

Education
10
The Ku Endowment Charitable Gift Fund

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…

Philanthropy
11
Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City

To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.

Philanthropy
12
Kansas City Museum Foundation Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Umkc Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WONDERSCOPE INC: $8,034,497 · EducationWONDERSCOPE INCKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $800,000 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $355,000 · Education+10 more: $270,870 · EducationGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $740,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HEALTH SYSTEM: $145,000 · OtherKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOC: $84,080 · OtherJOHNSON COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherUMKC BLOCH SCHOOL: $50,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $33,225 · OtherHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $60,000 · Other+38 more: $405,100 · OtherARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND: $97,750 · Arts & CultureUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureOverland Park Historical Society Inc: $17,500 · Arts & CultureTHE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $70,000 · HealthHNC LIVING FOUNDATION: $52,500 · HealthGLOBAL CARE FORCE: $15,000 · HealthBLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10,000 · HealthBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $7,500 · Health+3 more: $7,750 · HealthTHREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES: $70,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINC: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesKansas City Hospice Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesCENTER OF GRACE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAFEHOME INC: $4,450 · Human Services
Education$9,460,367Philanthropy$765,000Other$902,405Arts & Culture$220,250Health$162,750Housing & Shelter$77,500Human Services$75,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWONDERSCOPE INC: $8,034,497 over 7y, 79% of budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $740,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $355,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $106,900 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetARTS & RECREATION FOUNDATION OF OVERLAND: $97,750 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetKVC HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHREE DOG NIGHT CHARITIES: $70,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetBLUE VALLEY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $62,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHNC LIVING FOUNDATION: $52,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUMKC FOUNDATION: $33,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SUPPORT OF KANSAS CITY: $30,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJourney to New Life INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Design Center: $20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Public Square Inc: $17,900 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOverland Park Historical Society Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,970 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetGLOBAL CARE FORCE: $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS BUREAU INC: $10,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBLUFORD HEALTHCARE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSHERWOOD CENTER FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL CHILD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GAMBLE HOUSE CONSERVANCY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEVENDAYS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRADENS HOPE FOR CHILDHOOD CANCER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER OF GRACE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClimate Action KC Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetKANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAFEHOME INC: $4,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRediscover Foundation: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAdventHealth Kansas City Foundation: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $1,000 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.

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…The Sunderland Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…United Way of Greater…The Kansas City Royal…Marion and Henry Bloc…Oppenstein Brothers F…The H & R Block Found…William T Kemper Foun…Communityamerica Cred…Constance M Cooper Ch…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO54.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 V & H Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from V & H Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.

    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 82 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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