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Community Foundation of Central Mo

The community foundation of central missouri inspires and nurtures philanthropy for the public good.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$513k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$3.1MPublic Benefit$2.3MFood & Nutrition$2.1MMembership Benefit$761kReligion$744kHealth$561kArts & Culture$477kCivil Rights$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 53 grants below total $2,121,658, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,836,869 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $715,211 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $459k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $745k
  • $250k+2 grants · $814k
$12,520
Median grant
7
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELIAS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$512,500
ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY$301,000
CITY OF COLUMBIA$144,000
COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTU$130,628
CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF JEFFERSON CITY$90,000
CROSSING CHURCH$68,500
COLUMBIA SECOND CHANCE$60,600
COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S$51,500
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$50,000
ST PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH$50,000
THE BRIGID ALLIANCE$50,000
GLOBAL IMPACT$50,000
JAMES & ANNELLE WHITT ENTRE$48,000
LAURIE FD FOR PERFORMING ARTS$47,500
FOUNDATION FOR THE HIGHER GOOD INC$34,125
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $50k → 17%THE BRIGID ALLIANCE: $20k → 17%CITY OF REFUGE: $25k → 17%MOBILITY WORLDWIDE-COLUMBIA: $21k → 17%MOBILITY WORLDWIDE-COLUMBIA: $13k → 17%MOBILITY WORLDWIDE-COLUMBIA: $10k → 17%MOBILITY WORLDWIDE-COLUMBIA: $7k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
KS
TN
DC
MS
AL
TX
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.7M · 38 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
67

Total granted

$8.7M
$2.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+4%

Still filing today

61%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $518k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsOther
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

  • CC
    Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture
    7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +221% · 50% of their budget
  • SN
    ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $926k · revenue +266% · 98% of their budget
  • CO
    Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc
    3× · 2019–2022 · $250k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • KA
    KAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITY
    one grant, 2019 · $600k
  • CP
    COLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2023 · $584k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $225k
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
Jefferson Regional Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…

Health
2
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

—
3
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
4
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

—
5
Missouri Historical Society

The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…

Arts & Culture
6
Build Missouri Health

To foster and amplify community-led innovations through partnerships resulting in radical system changes that create equitable health outcomes.

Human Services
7
The Missouri Foundation for Health

To eliminate underlying causes of health inequities, transform systems and enable individuals and communities to thrive

Health
8
Union Health System

To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.

Health
9
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
10
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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11
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
12
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri 4-H Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

79 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. 79 of the 137 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
79/79
Grantees still filing
44/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF COLUMBIA: $2,251,650 · OtherCITY OF COLUMBIAKAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITY: $600,000 · OtherKAPPA ALPHA THETA FRATERNITYCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $584,000 · OtherCOLUMBIA PUBLIC SCHOOLSHELIAS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $575,000 · OtherHELIAS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL+92 more: $3,253,630 · Other+92 moreColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $2,060,370 · EnvironmentColumbia Center for Ur…Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $250,000 · EnvironmentColorado Outdoor Educa…+3 more: $70,000 · EnvironmentST NICHOLAS ACADEMY: $926,000 · EducationST NICHOLAS A…University of Illinois Foundation: $122,396 · EducationUniversity of…THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF HELIAS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $120,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATIO…CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE: $83,975 · EducationCENTRAL CHRIS…DAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $50,000 · Education+7 more: $170,640 · Education+7 moreTHE RAINBOW NETWORK INC: $198,000 · HealthGuardian Hills Veterans Healing Center: $89,016 · HealthUNITED MSD FOUNDATION INC: $73,730 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $20,000 · HealthLIZZYS WALK OF FAITH: $17,106 · Health+1 more: $7,600 · HealthTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesCOLUMBIA SECOND CHANCE: $60,600 · Human ServicesPET MISSOURI - COLUMBIA INC: $51,000 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGE: $25,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER MISSOURI: $10,000 · Human ServicesPRO PUBLICA INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureHAND REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF HISTORIC BOONVILLE INC: $12,100 · Arts & CultureAPPALSHOP INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTRACE MEDIA INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,100 · Arts & CultureGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $60,000 · Civil RightsNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $50,000 · Civil RightsGUNSDOWN INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsHEARTLAND CENTER FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$7,264,280Environment$2,380,370Education$1,473,011Health$495,452Human Services$216,600Arts & Culture$212,200Civil Rights$195,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $2,060,370 over 7y, 50% of budgetST NICHOLAS ACADEMY: $926,000 over 4y, 98% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc: $250,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE RAINBOW NETWORK INC: $198,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetRESIST INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $122,396 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF HELIAS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $120,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGuardian Hills Veterans Healing Center: $89,016 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE: $83,975 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetHAND REHABILITATION FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetUNITED MSD FOUNDATION INC: $73,730 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetTHE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOLUMBIA SECOND CHANCE: $60,600 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $60,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR THE HIGHER GOOD: $53,325 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPET MISSOURI - COLUMBIA INC: $51,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $50,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobal Impact: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUNSDOWN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDAVIS-PUTTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCoalition for the Homeless of Houston Harris County: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget350ORG: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL INC: $36,171 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEL PUENTE-HISPANIC MINISTRY: $27,390 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetKansas City University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTLAND CENTER FOR JOBS AND FREEDOM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetBRYANT GLADNEY FOUNDATION: $22,719 over 1y, 74% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $22,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $21,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDCH Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCLAY COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN LEGACY: $20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S CANCER SOCIETY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEACON OF DOWNTOWN HOUSTON: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLIZZYS WALK OF FAITH: $17,106 over 1y, 20% of budgetVERNON COUNTY YOUTH FAIR: $15,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetGASCONADE COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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.

  • Who funds Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture ↗
  • Who funds ST NICHOLAS ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Colorado Outdoor Education Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE RAINBOW NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds RESIST INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF HELIAS CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Guardian Hills Veterans Healing Center ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL CHRISTIAN COLLEGE OF THE BIBLE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND REHABILITATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MSD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBIA SECOND CHANCE ↗
  • Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR THE HIGHER GOOD ↗
  • Who funds PET MISSOURI - COLUMBIA INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Global Impact ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗

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.

Orscheln Industries F…Veterans United Found…Greater HorizonsMfa Oil FoundationBoone Electric Commun…The Sunderland Founda…Psalm 103 Family Foun…Community Foundation …Je and le Mabee Found…Boone County Communit…Allen P and Josephine…William T Kemper Foun…
Orscheln Industries Foundation IncMO39.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Greater Horizons · Mfa Oil Foundation · Boone Electric Community Trust · The Sunderland Foundation · Psalm 103 Family Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Je and le Mabee Foundation Inc · Boone County Community Trust · Allen P and Josephine B Green · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee

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 Community Foundation of Central Mo funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Central Mo. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 137 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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