· Public charity
Freeman Health System
The mission of freeman health services is to improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, quality healthcare solutions.
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 9 grants below total $2,606,737 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,244,390 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $637,653 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $463k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $1,095,000 |
| CARL JUNCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| OZARK CENTER | $236,000 |
| NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| CROWDER COLLEGE | $76,737 |
| JOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI | $29,000 |
| BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS | $10,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +48% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- OCOzark Center9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +48%
- MSMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +110%
- PSPITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +88%
Funded once
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +31%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOPLINone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -37%
- LHLabette Health Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +20%
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.
Main street joplin, d/b/a downtown joplin alliance, is a not-for-profit corporation founded to enhance the economic development of the downtown business district of joplin, mo.
To promote and help provide excellence in teaching in each classroom of the jefferson city public school district.
Jcf connects people, ideas, and resources to build a future of opportunity for all in jefferson county.
To advance, encourage, assist and support the growth and development of jefferson college in any way that is beneficial to its student body, faculty, and administrators.
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…
To further the jccc mission, strategic goals and initiatives, the foundation will strive to provide access to the college for all students; advance excellence through the development of community leadership, business partnerships and…
Provide scholarships, loan forgiveness, and other forms of support as may be appropriate for the education of health professionals in the state of missouri who commit to providing future services for the underserved in the state.
To work for the advancement of the business community, to enhance the economic, civic and cultural environment, and to improve the quality of life in jefferson parish, louisiana.
To serve as a catalyst for economic grown and development in northwest missouri
The organization provides support and enhances the activities of jefferson state community college. the foundation provides support through student scholarships, professional development, and college-community partnerships.
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of St Avips. 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 40 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 34 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 Ozark Center ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Connect2Culture ↗
- Who funds CARL JUNCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF SE KANSAS INC ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Creative Learning Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE LIFESTYLE EVENTS INC ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST AVIPS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds Labette Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Joplin Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds NEOSHO SCHOOL DISTRICT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN FAMILY Y ↗
- Who funds WEBB CITY R-7 SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOUSE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds TALKINGTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS MISSOURI CHAPTER ↗
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: Arvest Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Dawson Heritage Foundation 30535007936 · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · The Farber Foundation · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Freeman R Johnson Trust · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · Community Foundation of Southeast Kansas · Forvis Mazars 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 Freeman Health System 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.