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Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc
The community foundation of the ozarks mission is to enhance the quality of life through resource development, community grantmaking, collaboration, and public leadership.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 477 grants below total $21,361,415 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $26,857,810 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,496,395 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k76 grants · $524k
- $10k–50k291 grants · $5.8M
- $50k–250k98 grants · $9.1M
- $250k+12 grants · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHOW-ME CHRISTIAN YOUTH HOME | $1,000,000 |
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $771,297 |
| CONVOY OF HOPE | $727,500 |
| CROSS TRAIL OUTFITTERS INC | $712,000 |
| MARION C EARLY R-V SCHOOL DISTRICT | $580,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $473,187 |
| CROSSLINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $315,226 |
| CITY OF NEVADA | $285,235 |
| OTC FOUNDATION | $274,006 |
| ST AGNES CATHEDRAL | $270,000 |
| CREATIVE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC | $260,000 |
| CITY OF ANNAPOLIS | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS | $240,217 |
| WOMEN'S MEDICAL RESPITE | $232,175 |
| OZARKS FOOD HARVEST | $230,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $14.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
709 repeat relationships — 351 still active in FY2025, 358 since wound down; 116 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MSMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.8M · revenue +97%
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +48%
- VSVALLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +13%
Funded once
- COCity of Warsawone grant, 2024 · $362k
- JCJOHNSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $310k · revenue +797%
- YUYORK UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.
Dedicated to providing the highest quality medical services within our power to provide to the people of camden, pulaski, laclede, and miller counties
To provide high quality care and set the standards of excellence for those we serve.
To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.
Semo health network is committed to providing affordable, quality healthcare to the communities of southeast missouri.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
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Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need
It is the mission of the douglas county public health services group, inc. dba/missouri ozarks community health, to provide quality, affordable primary medical, dental, and behavioral health care to all.
The mission of ozarks community health center is to provide greater access to quality, compassionate, and professional healthcare through our comprehensive health system and community partnerships.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Central Missouri Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Eta Forever Sisterhood. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
846 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 846 of the 1,427 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING TREE ↗
- Who funds VALLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BRANSON ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRAILSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds History Museum on the Square Inc ↗
- Who funds COX-MONETT HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SHOW ME YOUTH AG ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Lamar Community Betterment Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SHOW-ME CHRISTIAN YOUTH HOME ↗
- Who funds THE CARING PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Workshop Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COXHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAZORBACK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Kanakuk Ministries ↗
- Who funds CROSS TRAIL OUTFITTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation ↗
- Who funds Faith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ozarks Food Harvest Inc · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Missouri Sports Hall of Fame · United Way of the Ozarks Inc · The Hulston Family Foundation · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation
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 Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc 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.
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
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.