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Boone County Community Trust at a glance

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Boone County Community Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$194k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$38k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$201kEnvironment$161kFood & Nutrition$140kArts & Culture$125kPhilanthropy$88kCrime & Legal$88kEmployment$77kEducation$76kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $152k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOB POINT$38,001
HEART OF MISSOURI CASA$38,001
COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE$20,000
SPECTRUM HEALTH$18,000
STEPHENS COLLEGE$15,000
COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME$13,040
CENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY$10,000
OATS INC$9,800
MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF$8,995
IN2ACTION$7,846
BOONE COUNTY PINNACLES YOUTH FOUNDATION$6,000
FRIENDS OF ROCHEPORT SOCIETY$4,000
HARRISBURG LIONS CLUB$3,456
GIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND$1,665
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 (FY19–25, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME: $13k → 17%COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME: $13k → 17%COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME: $13k → 17%COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDRENS HOME: $10k → 17%JOB POINT: $38k → 17%LOVE INC OF COLUMBIA: $10k → 17%JOB POINT: $10k → 17%LOVE INC OF COLUMBIA: $6k → 17%CITY OF REFUGE: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $20k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $20k → 17%CITY OF REFUGE: $9k → 17%CARING HEART AND HANDS OF COLUMBIA: $17k → 17%OATS INC: $10k → 17%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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$654k · 19 repeat orgs$439k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
31

Total granted

$654k
$344k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

68%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEmploymentEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries
    4× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +179%
  • JP
    JOB POINT
    2× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +23%
  • I
    IN2ACTION
    5× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +288%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FARM FUND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • VA
    VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
  • TF
    THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
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
St Louis Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

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2
Missouri Accreditation of Programs for Children & Youth

Promotion of child care excellence in missouri

Education
3
Central Ozarks Private Industry Council

Central Ozarks Private Industry Council, Incorporated (COPIC) strives to provide all customers with access to professional, high-quality workforce development services, resulting in sustainable employment and contributing to positive…

Employment
4
Forward Through Ferguson

Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…

Civil Rights
5
Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund

Children's services fund ('csf') is an innovative way to support child well-being projects. while we are funded by a jackson county sales tax, we are a stand-alone organization led by an independent board. (continued on schedule o)we are…

Human Services
6
Womens Crisis Center of Taney County Inc

The Crisis Center provides shelter and services to victims and their children of domestic and sexual violence.

Human Services
7
Missouri Center for Patient Safety

Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.

Health
8
Cornerstone Center for Early Learning

Nurturing confident young minds. supporting all families.

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9
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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10
Help Services of Carroll County

Provide services, food commodities, utility payment funds, cancer treatment funds to low-income residents of the carroll county, missouri area.

Human Services
11
Central Missouri Foster Care & Adoption Association

Cmfcaa educates, supports, and advocates for foster and adoptive children, youth, and families along with kinship families in central missouri by offering services and partnering with community and governmental agencies to develop healthy…

Human Services
12
North Central Missouri Childrens Advocacy Center

To reduce the traumatic long-term effects of child abuse on children, their families and communities through coordination, child focused services, education and advocacy

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Missouri United Way Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harrisburg Lions Club. 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

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOONE COUNTY NATURE SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherBOONE COUNTY NATURE SCHOOLHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC: $59,000 · OtherHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INCFRIENDS OF THE FARM FUND FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FARM FUND FOUNDATIONIN2ACTION: $47,415 · OtherIN2ACTIONACCESS ARTS: $34,500 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST: $25,000 · Other+33 more: $294,703 · Other+33 moreCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $49,250 · Human ServicesCoyote Hill Foster Care…JOB POINT: $48,001 · Human ServicesJOB POINTUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO: $40,000 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDE…CITY OF REFUGE: $28,500 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGETRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC: $20,681 · Human ServicesTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA …Caring Hearts And Hands of Columbia: $16,705 · Human ServicesCaring Hearts And Hands…Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $16,336 · Human ServicesLove Columbia Corp Love…OATS INC: $9,800 · Human ServicesColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $45,000 · EnvironmentRIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF: $11,495 · EnvironmentBOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,500 · Arts & CultureMareck Center for Dance: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCompass INC: $5,835 · Arts & CultureHEART OF MISSOURI CASA: $38,001 · Crime & LegalVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN: $23,100 · EducationNora Stewart Early Learning Center: $11,700 · Education
Other$660,618Human Services$229,273Environment$56,495Arts & Culture$48,335Crime & Legal$38,001Philanthropy$35,000Education$34,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC: $59,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $49,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetJOB POINT: $48,001 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetIN2ACTION: $47,415 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $45,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO: $40,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetHEART OF MISSOURI CASA: $38,001 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $32,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $28,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN: $23,100 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC: $20,681 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCaring Hearts And Hands of Columbia: $16,705 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $16,336 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOVE MY JOB TRAINING CENTER: $15,586 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNora Stewart Early Learning Center: $11,700 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetRIVER RELIEF INC D/B/A MISSOURI RIVER RELIEF: $11,495 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMareck Center for Dance: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHOMPSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM & NEURODEVELOPMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOATS INC: $9,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE AND WORK CONNECTIONS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC: $6,254 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY TRAINING INC (TAX): $6,086 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompass INC: $5,835 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHEART OF MISSOURI GIRLS ON THE RUN: $2,174 over 1y, 2.3% 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.

Veterans United Found…Boone Electric Commun…Allen P and Josephine…Orscheln Industries F…Stafford Family Chari…Fred V & Dorothy H He…Heart of Missouri Uni…Mfa Oil FoundationPsalm 103 Family Foun…Knipp Family Foundati…Miller Family Foundat…Commerce Bancshares F…
Veterans United FoundationMO56.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Boone Electric Community Trust · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation · Heart of Missouri United Way Inc · Mfa Oil Foundation · Psalm 103 Family Foundation · Knipp Family Foundation · Miller Family Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares 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 Boone County Community Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boone County Community Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's 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
    16report 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
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Boone County Community Trust?

    Find your warmest path to Boone County Community Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 57 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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