· Private foundation
Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable
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 | $2,500 |
| PROMUSICA | $2,500 |
| CONNECT2CULTURE | $2,500 |
| FAMILY SELF-HELP CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| CHILDRENS CENTER OF SW MISSOURI | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SW MISSOURI | $2,025 |
| JOPLIN LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN | $2,000 |
| FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OF JOPLIN | $2,000 |
| REGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE ASSOC | $1,500 |
| LIFE CHOICE MEDICAL SERVICES | $1,500 |
| BRIGHT FUTURES JOPLIN | $1,500 |
| WILDCAT GLADES FRIENDS GROUP | $1,500 |
| VITA NOVA VILLAGE | $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 (FY19–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +110%
- FSFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +0%
- PMPRO MUSICA7× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- MHMERCY HEALTH OF JOPLINone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MSMAIN STREET JOPLIN DBA--one grant, 2022 · $5k
- RHRAPHA HOUSE TRAVIS BUCHANone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
To improve the economic prosperity and quality of life in the joplin region, and to be the principal advocate for, and provider of services to its business community
Development of jobs in the joplin, mo area
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.
The organization provides emergency services that improve the overall health and welfare of very low and low income individuals and families in the joplin, carl junction, and webb city areas.
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…
Help seniors maintain healthy, secure and independent lifestyles by providing no cost supported services.
Provide a safe home of care and comfort for end-of-life patients.
Founded to further charitable, scientific,literacy, civic, athletic, patriotic, cultural, social and educational purposes.
The mental health association is committed to individual service in a community based setting that promotes recovery, dignity, personal growth, self determination and health.
To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, quality healthcare solutions.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Joplin and the most unlike its peers is Rx Outreach Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 57 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 FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE ↗
- Who funds PRO MUSICA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds Bright Futures Joplin ↗
- Who funds Connect2Culture ↗
- Who funds LIFECHOICES ↗
- Who funds FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY OF TRI COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NAMI JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds ASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN FAMILY Y ↗
- Who funds VITA NOVA VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WILDCAT GLADES NATURE GROUP ↗
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: Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Freeman R Johnson Trust · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · Arvest Foundation · Cloyd a Carlin Charitable Trust · The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation · The Farber Foundation · Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Freeman Health System
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 Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable 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.
- Community Support Services Inc — 1% 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.
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