Texas · Private foundation
Victor E Speas Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 44
- Grants FY2025
- 32
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 39
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $31M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Victor E Speas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $570k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 44 | $2.1M | 27% |
| FY2024 | 32 | $2.0M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $1.9M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $2.1M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $1.8M | 41% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $1.8M | 59% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Children's Mercy Hospital | $1,010,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Center for Practical Bioethics Inc | $745,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Park University | $615,707 | 6 | 0% |
| Swope Health Services | $555,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The John Knox Village Foundation | $535,000 | 3 | 34% |
| Developing Potential Inc | $360,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Northland Health Care Access | $350,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Newhouse Inc | $340,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Sheffield Place | $330,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Levelup Kids Inc | $317,500 | 7 | 2% |
Show all 72 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Victor E Speas Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Victor E Speas Foundation
- How much does Victor E Speas Foundation give?
- Victor E Speas Foundation reported 44 grants totaling $2,091,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Victor E Speas Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (40%), Human Services (18%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Victor E Speas Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: The Children's Mercy Hospital ($1.0M), Center for Practical Bioethics Inc ($745k), Park University ($616k).
- Does Victor E Speas Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Victor E Speas Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Victor E Speas Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc, Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Health Forward Foundation.
- Where is Victor E Speas Foundation based?
- Victor E Speas Foundation is based in TX.
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