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Darr Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$574k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$500k
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, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$4.0MPhilanthropy$950kCommunity Improvement$680kYouth Development$43kReligion$15kCrime & Legal$13kHuman Services$10kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$58,506
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS$500,000
FOUNDATION FOR SPG PUBLIC SCHOOLS$58,506
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS$10,000
BETTER BLOCK SGF$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%FOUNDATION FOR SPG PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $181k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR SPG PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $160k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR SPG PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $110k → 15%FOUNDATION FOR SPG PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $59k → 15%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD: $38k → 15%OZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL: $8k → 15%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SPRINGFIELD: $5k → 15%THE VICTIM CENTER: $5k → 15%ISABEL'S HOUSE: $5k → 15%MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO: $2.0M → 15%MO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1.5M → 15%RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $5k → 15%VISION REHABILITATION CENTER: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS: $500k → 15%MISSOURI STATE FOUNDATION: $460k → 15%MISSOURI STATE FOUNDATION: $450k → 15%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS: $120k → 15%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS: $35k → 15%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS: $25k → 15%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS: $22k → 15%COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS: $8k → 15%THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $8k → 15%DISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD: $5k → 15%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS: $5k → 15%BETTER BLOCK SGF: $5k → 15%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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 5 repeat orgs$3.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$2.2M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+20%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementHealthCrime & LegalEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • MS
    MISSOURI STATE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $910k
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $675k · revenue +48%
  • FF
    Foundation for Springfield Public Schools
    4× · 2022–2025 · $509k · revenue -12%

Funded once

  • MS
    MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +20%
  • MS
    MO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1.5M
  • OL
    OZARKS LITERACY COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +115%
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
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
2
Greater Ozarks Cooperating School Districts

To serve member districts by promoting collaboration of resources to ensure educational opportunites are maximized thus allowing member districts to focus on advancement of educational opportunities for students served at all educational…

Education
3
Missouri Child Care Resource and Referral Network

Child care aware of missouri raises the quality of early child care educational experiences in missouri by improving child care services - through training, education, quality standards, coaching, business support, and public policy work.

Human Services
4
Ozark Center

To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed, quality behavioral healthcare solutions.

Health
5
Our Children Oregon

Our children oregon's mission is to be a voice and force for the common good for all oregon children, ensuring all children have the resources and opportunities they need to reach their full potential. we elevate data and the voices of…

Philanthropy
6
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
7
Crisis Center of the Plains

To reduce the effects of family violence and sexual assault and to assist victims of these crimes through programs of support, education and advocacy.

Human Services
8
Arc of the Ozarks

To be a leader in service delivery for persons with disabilities by providing an array of supports and services to integrate them into their communities and to enhance the quality of their lives.

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9
Junior League of Springfield Missouri Inc

We are an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training. our purpose is exclusively educational and charitable.

Community Improvement
10
Iris Family Support Center Inc

Iris family support center, formerly known as scan, protects children, prepares parents, strengthens families and educates our community to stop child abuse and neglect.

Human Services
11
Children's Home Society of Missouri

The agency's overarching philosophy is based in the neurosequential model of therapeutics (nmt), developed by dr. bruce perry. nmt is a trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on…

Human Services
12
Childrens Center

The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ozarks Literacy Council. 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

11 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. 11 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,500,000 · OtherMO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONMISSOURI STATE FOUNDATION: $910,000 · OtherMISSOURI STATE FOUNDATION+6 more: $80,000 · OtherMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · EducationMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $674,500 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY PAR…+1 more: $5,000 · Community ImprovementFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $509,450 · HealthFoundation…+1 more: $5,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $40,465 · PhilanthropyTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $7,500 · Crime & LegalCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $5,000 · Crime & LegalDISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,490,000Education$2,000,000Community Improvement$679,500Health$514,450Philanthropy$40,465Crime & Legal$12,500Arts & Culture$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $674,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $509,450 over 4y, 11% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $43,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $40,465 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL: $7,500 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBETTER BLOCK SGF: $5,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE VICTIM CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Stanley & Elaine Ball…The Charlie & Mary Be…Robert M - Bobby - Al…Mercy Health Springfi…Commerce Bancshares F…Arvest FoundationCommunity Foundation …Ozarks Health Advocac…Cook Family FoundationMusgrave FoundationVeterans United Found…Rick and Marsha Floyd…
Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable TrMO24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Mercy Health Springfield Communities · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Cook Family Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Veterans United Foundation · Rick and Marsha Floyd 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 Darr Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Darr Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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

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    How do I get to Darr Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Darr Family Foundation 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 17 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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