· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Ronald McDonald House of the Ozarks | $25,000 |
| Republic First Christian Church | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Arthritis Foundation Inc | $24,000 |
| Council of Churches Crosslines | $20,000 |
| Care to Learn | $15,000 |
| Victory Mission | $12,000 |
| Southwest Missouri Humane Society | $10,000 |
| The Arc of the Ozarks | $10,000 |
| Ozark Empire Fairgrounds Foundation | $10,000 |
| Ozark Food Harvest | $10,000 |
| The Kitchen Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| Greene County Library Foundation | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 23 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Giddens Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Giddens Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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