Missouri · Public charity
Caring Communities Inc
Promote & support effective private/public partnerships; improve the health & well-being of missouri's children & families; caring communities; mo kids count; no kid hungry.
- $3.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $59,605
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,394,722
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Caring Communities Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $560k 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 | 16 | $3.1M | 44% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $1.1M | 71% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $830k | 70% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $392k | 92% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $25k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $228k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $193k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $78k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Global Orphan Project Inc | $1,638,850 | 4 | 2% |
| Good Dads Inc | $1,585,810 | 2 | 72% |
| Chapin Hall Center for Children | $643,414 | 2 | 2% |
| Future in Action | $322,999 | 1 | 100% |
| Area Resources for Community & Human Services | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $144,510 | 2 | n/a |
| Vision for Children at Risk Inc | $103,662 | 2 | 1% |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | $97,822 | 2 | 4% |
| New Madrid Co Human Resources Council Community Partnership | $94,650 | 3 | 3% |
| Therapy Paws | $91,054 | 3 | 42% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Global Orphan Project Inc | $1,638,850 | 4 | 2% |
| Good Dads Inc | $1,585,810 | 2 | 72% |
| Chapin Hall Center for Children | $643,414 | 2 | 2% |
| Future in Action | $322,999 | 1 | 100% |
| Area Resources for Community & Human Services | $155,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Curators of the University of Missouri | $144,510 | 2 | n/a |
| Vision for Children at Risk Inc | $103,662 | 2 | 1% |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | $97,822 | 2 | 4% |
| New Madrid Co Human Resources Council Community Partnership | $94,650 | 3 | 3% |
| Therapy Paws | $91,054 | 3 | 42% |
| Rose of Sharon Ministries Inc | $78,050 | 2 | n/a |
| Operation Food Search Inc | $76,725 | 3 | 0% |
| Advocating for Children in Crisis and Transitions | $67,699 | 1 | 31% |
| Missouri Alliance of Ymcas | $50,000 | 2 | 6% |
| City of St Louis | $35,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Joplin | $32,613 | 2 | 1% |
| Potosi School District | $24,187 | 1 | n/a |
| Fort Osage R-1 School District | $20,508 | 2 | n/a |
| Missouri River Regional Library | $19,257 | 1 | n/a |
| Jc Public Schools | $19,117 | 2 | n/a |
| The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri | $18,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Adair County Family YMCA Inc | $17,010 | 2 | 1% |
| Children and Family Futures Inc | $16,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Harvesters - the Community Food Network | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Divine Holiness Outreach Ministry | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Missouri Coalition for Primary Health Care | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Guadalupe Educational System Inc | $9,950 | 1 | 0% |
| New Hope Ministries | $9,828 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas County R-1 Buffalo High School | $9,769 | 1 | n/a |
| The Favored Foundation for Strengthening Families | $9,440 | 1 | 2% |
| Confluence Academy | $9,360 | 1 | 0% |
| Laclede County C5 School District | $9,185 | 1 | n/a |
| George Washington Carver Es | $8,538 | 1 | n/a |
| Mississippi County Interagency Council | $8,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Springfield Public Schools | $7,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Seeds of Substance | $7,740 | 1 | n/a |
| Boys and Girls Club of Jefferson City | $7,251 | 1 | n/a |
| Grand River Area Family YMCA Inc | $7,220 | 1 | 0% |
| Network for Strong Communities | $6,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of the Greater West Plains Area | $6,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of the Ozarks | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St James R-Ii School District | $5,977 | 1 | n/a |
| Cabool R-Iv School District | $5,931 | 1 | n/a |
| New City Fellowship | $5,829 | 1 | n/a |
| Mexico Area Family YMCA INC | $5,050 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($410k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Caring Communities Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Youthbridge Community Foundation · National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Good360 · Edward Jones Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Caring Communities Inc
- How much does Caring Communities Inc give?
- Caring Communities Inc reported 16 grants totaling $3,082,615 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Caring Communities Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Food & Nutrition (21%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Caring Communities Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Global Orphan Project Inc ($1.6M), Good Dads Inc ($1.6M), Chapin Hall Center for Children ($643k).
- Does Caring Communities Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Caring Communities Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, Commerce Bancshares Foundation.
- Where is Caring Communities Inc based?
- Caring Communities Inc is based in MO.
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