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Giddens Family Foundation
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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Elizabeth Ann Seaton | $30,000 |
| The Tooth Truck Inc | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House of the Ozarks | $25,000 |
| Republic First Christian Church | $25,000 |
| Arthritis Foundation Inc | $24,000 |
| Council of Churches Crosslines | $20,000 |
| Care to Learn | $15,000 |
| Victory Mission | $12,000 |
| Ozark Empire Fairgrounds Foundation | $10,000 |
| Southwest Missouri Humane Society | $10,000 |
| Ozark Food Harvest | $10,000 |
| The Kitchen Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| The Arc of the Ozarks | $10,000 |
| CASA of Southwest Missouri | $7,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- AFARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $64k · revenue +15%
- OFOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +29%
- TKTHE KITCHEN FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $6k
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 feed, shelter, and provide medical care to abandoned and lost animals
The missouri alliance for animal legislation is a non-profit organization lobbying full time to bring positive change for animals through the legislative process. our efforts are combined with the actions of concerned individuals, other…
Outreach to help animals suffering in the urban core of kansas city.
Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need
The alliance is a collaborative organization that works on behalf of arkansans facing hunger.
Nova center of the ozarks, inc strives to make possible the potential for positive change in the quality of life for every individual with a developmental disability, regardless of the nature of that disability.
The food bank of northeast arkansas provides hunger relief to people in need in twelve counties in northeast arkansas by raising awareness, securing resources, and distributing food through a network of non-profit agencies and programs.
The mission of the humane society of jefferson county is to improve the lives of animals in need through compassionate care, adoption, advocacy and education while also inspiring humane communities that foster kindness and respect for all.
The mission of the missouri alliance for animals is to protect animals from abuse, neglect and inhumane treatment and to promote the welfare of animals through advocacy, education, research and investigations, promotion of humane public…
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…
Animal lifeline is a special needs no kill animal shelter that helps dogs & cats that are abused, seriously ill, handicapped, pregnant & nursing moms, orphan babies that need to be bottle fed & abandoned. we provide vet care, surgery,…
Provide integrated, patient-centered health services designed to meet the needs of all patients, regardless of ability to pay; help the healthcare industry better serve patients & community by promoting public health; supporting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ozarks Food Harvest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Castaway Animals Rescue Effort. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 23 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 ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOOTH TRUCK INC ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE KITCHEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Care to Learn ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds ARC OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds NEWBORNS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Castaway Animals Rescue Effort ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Cook Family Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Tua J Elizabeth McCain Charitable · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · The Turner Family Foundation · Mercy Health Springfield Communities · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Larry P O'Reilly and 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 Giddens Family Foundation 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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