· Private foundation
Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $5,000 |
| CONNECT2CULTURE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS | $4,000 |
| VERNON COUNTY CANCER RELIEF | $3,000 |
| LAFAYETTE HOUSE | $2,500 |
| BRIGHT FUTURES JOPLIN | $2,500 |
| CREATIVE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $2,000 |
| PRO MUSICA | $1,000 |
| JOPLIN HUMANE SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| CENTAUR RISING | $1,000 |
| JASPER COUNTY CASA | $1,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $1,000 |
| JOPLIN LITTLE THEATER | $1,000 |
| CHILDRENS CENTER OF SW MO | $1,000 |
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, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
49 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 SOUTHERN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +110%
- GAGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +85%
- VCVERNON COUNTY CANCER RELIEF FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- RORECOVERY OUTREACH COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $1k
- HSHIGHER SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $1k
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +14%
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.
Animal protection and preservation
The mental health association is committed to individual service in a community based setting that promotes recovery, dignity, personal growth, self determination and health.
Discovery behavioral healthcare is a community based health treatment center dedicated to providing state of the art services to foster recovery and resilience in an accessible, respective and caring environment.
Promotes the well-being of companion animals and pets that enrich the lives of the people who love them.
The mission of the humane society of jefferson county is to improve the lives of animals in need through compassionate care, adoption, advocacy and education while also inspiring humane communities that foster kindness and respect for all.
To bring hope and healing to traumatized children and their families, and to enhance the physical, emotional, and spiritual health of its clients and staff.
To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.
Provide a safe home of care and comfort for end-of-life patients.
The mission of the jefferson city rape & abuse crisis service, inc. shall be to support survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking through advocacy, counseling and shelter services in a space designed for healing and hope.
Provide transportation, commodities, information and outreach to over 700 jefferson county, kansas residents.
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
Promote the humane treatment of animals
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Self Help Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Centaur Rising. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 68 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
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 MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VERNON COUNTY CANCER RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Connect2Culture ↗
- Who funds OSAGE PRAIRIE YMCA ↗
- Who funds PRO MUSICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RAPHA HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Creative Learning Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CENTAUR RISING ↗
- Who funds WILDCAT GLADES NATURE GROUP ↗
- Who funds WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN TRAILS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Joplin Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds INTER-MOUNTAIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Bright Futures Joplin ↗
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: W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · Freeman R Johnson Trust · Arvest Foundation · Cloyd a Carlin Charitable Trust · Freeman Health System · The United Way of Southwest Missouri · The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Snider Wilson Family 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 Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust 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.
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.