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Victor E Speas Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$150k
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.

Health$5.4MHuman Services$2.5MHousing & Shelter$1.6MEducation$1.0MCrime & Legal$760kFood & Nutrition$503kEmployment$420kPublic Benefit$295kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $835k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
$40,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LEVELUP KIDS INC$150,000
NORTH KANSAS CITY HOSPITAL$150,000
KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY$125,000
ABILITY KC$125,000
SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER$125,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC$90,000
UNITED WE$80,000
SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES$55,000
NEWHOUSE INC$50,000
NORTHLAND HEALTH CARE ACCESS$50,000
KANBE'S MARKETS$50,000
THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC$50,000
CLEVELAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION$50,000
SYNERGY SERVICES INC$45,000
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 (FY19–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SYSTEMS OF CARE INITIATIVE: $10k → 14%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $150k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $20k → 8%LIFE UNLIMITED INC: $15k → 8%SYNERGY SERVICES INC: $45k → 8%BUDGET AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: $17k → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $40k → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $30k → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $25k → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $10k → 15%AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME: $10k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $50k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $40k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $40k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $40k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC: $15k → 15%HOPE HOUSE INC: $40k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC: $10k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC: $10k → 15%DON BOSCO COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC: $10k → 15%LAZARUS MINISTRIES KC: $10k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $83k → 15%RECONCILIATION SERVICES: $150k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $50k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $50k → 15%GUADALUPE CENTER INC: $45k → 15%JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $250k → 15%JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $250k → 15%HEALING HOUSE: $30k → 15%JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $35k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$12M · 51 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

51 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

51
28

Total granted

$12M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+7%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $396k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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 · $1.0M · revenue +47%
  • SH
    SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES
    3× · 2021–2025 · $555k · revenue +62%
  • TJ
    THE JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2024 · $535k · revenue +152% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

  • RS
    RECONCILIATION SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -67%
  • KU
    KC UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE & BIOSCIENCES
    one grant, 2024 · $125k
  • KC
    KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICINE
    one grant, 2019 · $122k

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
Kanza Mental Health and Guidance Center Inc

Offer hope to build a better tomorrow through mental health services.

Health
2
Welcome House Inc

The Welcome House is a non-profit, sober living, recovery program (incorporated in 1971) with the sole purpose of educating and rehabilitating the adult male alcoholic/ addict and the expressed mission of returning the individual to…

Health
3
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
4
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
5
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
6
Southeast Kansas Community Action P

Addressing the causes and effects of poverty by uniting staff, individuals, families, and community partners to provide quality, comprehensive services through compassionate, respectful relationships.

Community Improvement
7
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
8
Southeast Kansas Mental Health Center

To provide and advocate for the highest quality whole-person care to improve the health and quality of life in our communities.

Health
9
Kansas City Pet Project

Leading the way in creating a compassionate, safe community for pets and people through progressive lifesaving programs and services, community resources, and educational opportunities.

Animals
10
Freedom House Ministries

House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…

Education
11
Chain of Hope Kc

Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.

Animals
12
Community Health Center of Se Kansas Inc

To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Kc 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 38 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr12%9%5–10yr15%9%10–20yr14%20%20–35yr11%41%35–55yr28%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr12%4%5–10yr15%4%10–20yr14%17%20–35yr11%42%35–55yr28%33%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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%0/72
the rest of the field
13%
848/6,357

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

71 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. 71 of the 91 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/71
Grantees still filing
50/71
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC — $745,000 · OtherCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INCNEWHOUSE INC — $340,000 · OtherNEWHOUSE INCKANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE — $337,403 · OtherKANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINEIndividual grant recipient — $325,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTH KANSAS CITY HOSPITAL — $300,000 · OtherUNITED WE — $295,000 · OtherJACKSON COUNTY CASA PROJECT — $265,000 · OtherABILITY KC — $250,000 · OtherAFTER THE HARVEST — $228,000 · OtherHEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $200,000 · OtherKANBE'S MARKETS — $265,000 · OtherVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $225,000 · Other+38 more — $2,083,810 · Other+38 moreThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $1,010,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hosp…SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES — $555,000 · HealthSWOPE HEALTH SERVICESNorthland Health Care Access — $350,000 · HealthNorthland Health Care Acc…LEVELUP KIDS INC — $317,500 · HealthLEVELUP KIDS INCSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC — $313,500 · HealthSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH C…Saint Lukes Foundation — $200,000 · HealthSaint Lukes FoundationAmethyst Place Inc — $185,000 · HealthAmethyst Place Inc+5 more — $149,000 · HealthTHE JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $535,000 · Human ServicesTHE JOHN KNOX …HOPE HOUSE INC — $310,000 · Human ServicesHOPE HOUSE INCGUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $228,000 · Human ServicesGUADALUPE CENT…SYNERGY SERVICES INC — $195,000 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVIC…RECONCILIATION SERVICES — $150,000 · Human ServicesRECONCILIATION…AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME — $115,000 · Human ServicesAD HOC GROUP A…+6 more — $176,730 · Human Services+6 morePARK UNIVERSITY — $615,707 · EducationPARK UNIV…KANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC — $250,000 · EducationKANSAS CI…AVILA UNIVERSITY — $150,000 · EducationAVILA UNI…William Jewell College — $72,847 · EducationWilliam J…+2 more — $38,000 · EducationSHEFFIELD PLACE — $330,000 · Housing & ShelterRESTART INC — $265,000 · Housing & ShelterCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $185,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY — $160,000 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER KC — $89,941 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LINC — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterDeveloping Potential Inc — $360,000 · EmploymentTHE PROSPECT KC — $20,000 · Employment+1 more — $10,000 · EmploymentTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $300,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $5,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,859,213Health$3,080,000Human Services$1,709,730Education$1,126,554Housing & Shelter$1,069,941Employment$390,000Crime & Legal$305,000

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 Children's Mercy Hospital — $1,010,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC — $745,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetPARK UNIVERSITY — $615,707 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSWOPE HEALTH SERVICES — $555,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $535,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetDeveloping Potential Inc — $360,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetNorthland Health Care Access — $350,000 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetNEWHOUSE INC — $340,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSHEFFIELD PLACE — $330,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetLEVELUP KIDS INC — $317,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC — $313,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE HOUSE INC — $310,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC — $300,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WE — $295,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetRESTART INC — $265,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS — $265,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetKANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC — $250,000 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetABILITY KC — $250,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGUADALUPE CENTERS INC — $228,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAFTER THE HARVEST — $228,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT — $225,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSaint Lukes Foundation — $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC — $195,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE INC — $190,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc — $185,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $185,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION — $170,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY — $160,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAVILA UNIVERSITY — $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRECONCILIATION SERVICES — $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetAD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME — $115,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetKansas City CARE Clinic — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER KC — $89,941 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetWilliam Jewell College — $72,847 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD ABUSE PREVENTION ASSOCIATION — $72,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHEAST COMMUNITY CENTER — $70,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City Inc — $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAZARUS MINISTRIES KC — $55,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetTHE PHOENIX FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION — $55,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCRISTO REY KANSAS CITY SISTERS OF CHARI TY OF LEAVENWORTH HIGH SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRediscover — $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAI — $40,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINC — $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFLOURISH FURNISHINGS INC — $35,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHLAND SHEPHERD'S CENTER — $35,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetLIFE UNLIMITED INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR PRACTICAL BIOETHICS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SWOPE HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds THE JOHN KNOX VILLAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Developing Potential Inc ↗
  • Who funds Northland Health Care Access ↗
  • Who funds NEWHOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHEFFIELD PLACE ↗
  • Who funds LEVELUP KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMUEL U RODGERS HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WE ↗
  • Who funds RESTART INC ↗
  • Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
  • Who funds KANSAS CITY AUTISM TRAINING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ABILITY KC ↗
  • Who funds GUADALUPE CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds AFTER THE HARVEST ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Saint Lukes Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF AMERICA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds SYNERGY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
  • Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RECONCILIATION SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds AD HOC GROUP AGAINST CRIME ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Greater Kansas City C…Health Forward Founda…The Sunderland Founda…Oppenstein Brothers F…The H & R Block Found…Ewing Marion Kauffman…Menorah Heritage Foun…Jewish Community Foun…The Kansas City Royal…Commerce Bancshares F…Jackson County Commun…
United Way of Greater Kansas City IncMO89.6× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Health Forward Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · The H & R Block Foundation · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Menorah Heritage Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · The Kansas City Royals Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund

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 Speas 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%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 91 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.

    Source object · view filing

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