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Gertrude & Doyle Norris Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$133kHealth$55kHuman Services$55kPhilanthropy$39kArts & Culture$23kFood & Nutrition$10kReligion$7kEducation$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$959k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOSAIC LIFE CARE FOUNDATION$15,000
PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING$9,821
YMCA$6,000
INTERSERV$5,500
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$3,500
UNITED WAY$3,000
Social Welfare Board$2,000
ST JOSEPH MUSEUM$1,000
YWCA$1,000
CATHEDRAL OF ST JOSEPH$1,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES$1,000
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $4k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW MISSOURI: $10k → 18%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW MISSOURI: $5k → 18%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NW MISSOURI: $3k → 18%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 8%PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $40k → 18%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 8%PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $34k → 18%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 8%PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $24k → 18%SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 8%PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $10k → 18%PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $10k → 18%PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $10k → 18%PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING: $5k → 18%MWSU Foundation: $5k → 18%Social Welfare Board: $4k → 18%SOCIAL WELFARE BOARD: $2k → 18%Social Welfare Board: $2k → 18%Patee House Museum: $1k → 18%MOSAIC LIFE CARE FOUNDATION: $20k → 18%Mosaic Life Care Foundation: $20k → 18%MOSAIC LIFE CARE FOUNDATION: $15k → 18%INTERSERV: $11k → 18%YMCA: $6k → 18%INTERSERV: $6k → 18%UNITED WAY: $3k → 18%UNITED WAY: $3k → 18%UNITED WAY: $3k → 18%UNITED WAY: $3k → 18%UNITED WAY: $3k → 18%UNITED WAY: $3k → 18%UNITED WAY: $3k → 18%SAINT JOSEPH SYMPHONY: $2k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $1k → 18%YWCA: $1k → 18%INTERSERV: $1k → 18%YWCA: $1k → 18%YWCA: $1k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%INTERSERV: $1k → 18%YMCA: $1k → 18%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$303k · 11 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +81% since the first grant, against +73% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$303k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+73%

Still filing today

27%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthOther
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

  • PP
    PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $133k · revenue +94%
  • HF
    Heartland Foundation
    3× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +81%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $22k · revenue -1%

Funded once

  • MW
    MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +73%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $2k
  • I
    INTERSERVE
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
04the grantee network

5 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. 5 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
5/5
Grantees still filing
4/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC: $133,111 · EducationPIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INCUNITED WAY: $21,000 · OtherUNITED WAYINTERSERV: $20,500 · OtherINTERSERVYMCA: $12,000 · OtherYMCASECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $9,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKSocial Welfare Board: $8,270 · OtherSocial Welfare BoardYWCA: $7,000 · OtherYWCACATHEDRAL OF ST JOSEPH: $7,000 · OtherCATHEDRAL OF ST JOSEPHCATHOLIC CHARITIES: $7,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIESMISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $3,625 · OtherHeartland Foundation: $55,000 · HealthHeartland Foundati…ST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC: $22,375 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC: $18,000 · Philanthropy
Education$133,111Other$100,895Health$55,000Arts & Culture$22,375Philanthropy$18,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC: $133,111 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetHeartland Foundation: $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC: $22,375 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds Heartland Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC ↗
  • Who funds MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char TrNJ15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable · Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr · Heartland Regional Medical Center · The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Gertrude & Doyle Norris Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gertrude & Doyle Norris Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 16 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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