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Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$915k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
11
Organizations funded FY2024
45%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$150,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$400,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$17M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 45% of the organizations Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$915k17%
FY202411$785k45%
FY202312$810k33%
FY202211$715k64%
FY202112$825k67%
FY20209$780k44%
FY201911$625kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.5MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MYouth Development$1.0MHuman Services$200kCommunity Improvement$150kAnimals$125kScience & Tech$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($770k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Kansas University Endowment Association: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $890,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHeart of America Council Boy Scouts of America: $690,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetAvila University: $450,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNational Wwi Museum and Memorial: $300,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $230,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Station Kansas City Inc: $135,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThank You Walt Disney Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetFriends of the Zoo Inc of Kansas City Missouri C/O Linda Falk: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKansas City Urban Youth Academy Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetKansas City Repertory Theatre Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWonderscope Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKidstlc Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKauffman Center for the Performing Arts: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStarlight Theatre Association of Kansas City Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLyric Opera of Kansas City Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNewhouse Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEnglewood Arts: $40,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetChild Protection Center Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCharlotte Street Foundation: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetOperation Breakthrough Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Television 19 Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Rabbit Hole Kc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGordon Parks Elementary School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 Community FoundationMO34.7× affinity16 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 · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · E Kemper Carter & Anna Curry Carter Community · Constance M Cooper Charitable Foundation · Muriel McBrien Kauffman Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee · John J Sullivan Jr Foundation John Houlehan & Mark Henke-Trustees · Merriman 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.

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About Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation

How much does Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation give?
Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $915,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Health (23%), Arts & Culture (19%).
Who are Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Kansas University Endowment Association ($1.0M), The Children's Mercy Hospital ($890k), Heart of America Council Boy Scouts of America ($690k).
Does Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Victor E & Caroline E Schutte 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 Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation based?
Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation is based in TX.

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 40 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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