· Private foundation
Freeman R Johnson Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONAL HEALTH & WELFARE | $3,750 |
| PRO MUSICA | $3,000 |
| FREEMAN HEALTH | $2,500 |
| GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SW MO | $2,500 |
| HIGHER POWER GARAGE | $2,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $2,500 |
| LIFE CHOICES | $2,500 |
| ECONOMIC SECURITY CORPORATION | $2,500 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SW MO | $1,750 |
| JOPLIN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND | $1,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,600 |
| CONNECT2CULTURE | $1,500 |
| CREATIVE LEARNING ALLIANCE | $1,250 |
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 (FY20–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 10 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
- FSFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $29k · revenue +0%
- GAGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS4× · 2022–2025 · $18k · revenue +307%
- JAJOPLIN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue ×42 · 80% of their budget
Funded once
- TCTHE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OF SW MOone grant, 2020 · $8k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOPLINone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
- MSMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +7%
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
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.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
The st. louis jewish community center enriches lives, builds community, promotes inclusivity and creates meaningful jewish experiences.
Coordinate and / or provide services for member libraries to improve library access and services throughout jefferson county
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
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.
To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…
Educate the community on workers' rights
To promote the humane care and protection of all animals, especially those abandoned, neglected and abused; and to prevent cruelty and suffering of all animals.
The junior league of kansas city, missouri (jlkcmo) is a 501(c)(3) organziation of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
Development of jobs in the joplin, mo area
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Joplin and the most unlike its peers is Higher Power Garage. 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.
25 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. 25 of the 46 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 FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds PRO MUSICA ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE ↗
- Who funds WILDCAT GLADES NATURE GROUP ↗
- Who funds LIFECHOICES ↗
- Who funds Connect2Culture ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN FAMILY Y ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN NALA ↗
- Who funds HIGHER POWER GARAGE ↗
- Who funds ASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds OZARK TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #306 ↗
- Who funds RAPHA HOUSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Volunteer Corps ↗
- Who funds Creative Learning Alliance Inc ↗
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 · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Arvest Foundation · Cloyd a Carlin Charitable Trust · The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation · The United Way of Southwest Missouri · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Freeman Health System · Curchin 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 Freeman R Johnson 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.
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