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Victor E & Caroline E Schutte Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$915k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.5MHealth$1.3MArts & Culture$1.0MYouth Development$1.0MHuman Services$200kCommunity Improvement$150kAnimals$125kScience & Tech$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
  • $250k+2 grants · $650k
$150,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS$400,000
KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION$250,000
NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL$150,000
AVILA UNIVERSITY$60,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY MID-AMERICA$40,000
GOODWILL WESTERN MO & EASTERN KS$15,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–19, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%KANSAS CITY HOSPICE: $50k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 16 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
23

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+13%

Still filing today

88%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthAnimalsCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospital
    4× · 2019–2022 · $890k · revenue +47%
  • AU
    AVILA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $450k · revenue +117%
  • US
    UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • MD
    MISSOURI DEVELOPMENT FINANCE BOARD
    one grant, 2021 · $150k
  • BH
    BSA - HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY URBAN YOUTH ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +13%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Kansas City Artists Coalition Inc

The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness

Arts & Culture
2
Kansas City Ballet Association

To inspire and engage through the beauty, power and passion of dance

Arts & Culture
3
Kansas City Symphony

Its mission is to perform great performances for greater audiences. the kansas city symphony will achieve this mission by: - developing an uncompromising performance standard. - advancing the profile and value of the orchestra locally,…

Arts & Culture
4
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
5
Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City

The mission of The Black Repertory Theatre of Kansas City is to educate and inspire our community by presenting and promoting appreciation for African-American culture through our stories.

Arts & Culture
6
Convention & Visitors Bureau of Greater Kansas City

To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.

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7
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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8
Kansas City Art Institute

The mission of KCAI is to educate artists and designers while honoring the distinct journeys of students. We forge a vibrant community that equips them to become leaders who leverage the creative process to transform the future.

Education
9
Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…

Science & Tech
10
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
11
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
12
The Kentucky Science Center Inc

Our mission is to inspire curiosity and empower individuals to explore and experiment with science in all its forms. we embrace a "do science" philosophy: play, tinker, collaborate, test, experiment, learn from mistakes, and try again.…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 47 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr11%7%5–10yr15%11%10–20yr14%22%20–35yr11%22%35–55yr30%37%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr11%11%5–10yr15%3%10–20yr14%12%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr30%68%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
13%
698/5,311

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.

04the grantee network

27 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. 27 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Kansas University Endowment Association — $1,000,000 · EducationThe Kansas University Endowment …AVILA UNIVERSITY — $450,000 · EducationAVILA UNIVERSITYWONDERSCOPE INC — $80,000 · Education+2 more — $45,000 · EducationHEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $690,000 · OtherHEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOU…MISSOURI DEVELOPMENT FINANCE BOARD — $150,000 · OtherMISSOURI DEVELOPMENT FINANCE BOAR…BSA - HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL — $100,000 · OtherBSA - HEART OF AMERICA COUNCILKC URBAN YOUTH ACADEMY — $100,000 · OtherKC URBAN YOUTH ACADEMYLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY MID-AMERICA — $80,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA -HEARTS OF AMERICA — $70,000 · OtherKIDSTLC INC — $55,000 · Other+11 more — $360,000 · Other+11 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $890,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Ho…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $230,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC+1 more — $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL — $300,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL WWI MUSEU…UNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC — $135,000 · Arts & CultureUNION STATION KANS…THANK YOU WALT DISNEY INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHANK YOU WALT DIS…KANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $80,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY REPERT…STARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureSTARLIGHT THEATRE …LYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureLYRIC OPERA OF KAN…KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $50,000 · Arts & CultureKAUFFMAN CENTER FO…ENGLEWOOD ARTS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $45,000 · Arts & CultureKANSAS CITY URBAN YOUTH ACADEMY INC — $100,000 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF THE ZOO INC OF KANSAS CITY MISSOURI C/O LINDA FALK — $100,000 · AnimalsKansas City Hospice Inc — $50,000 · Human Services
Education$1,575,000Other$1,605,000Health$1,145,000Arts & Culture$880,000Recreation & Sports$100,000Animals$100,000Human Services$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetKANSAS CITY URBAN YOUTH ACADEMY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 8.4% 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 budgetWONDERSCOPE INC — $80,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetKANSAS CITY REPERTORY THEATRE INC — $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKIDSTLC INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTARLIGHT THEATRE ASSOCIATION OF KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKansas City Hospice Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLYRIC OPERA OF KANSAS CITY INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE STREET FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC — $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
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.

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.

Greater Kansas City C…The Sunderland Founda…Jewish Community Foun…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Marion and Henry Bloc…E Kemper Carter & Ann…Constance M Cooper Ch…Muriel McBrien Kauffm…The Francis Family Fo…William T Kemper Foun…John J Sullivan Jr Fo…Merriman Foundation
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

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 Victor E & Caroline E Schutte 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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