How much does Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust give?

Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $675,968 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (22%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Education (12%).

Who are Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Ministry Center Inc ($546k), Hopkins Township Road Association ($107k), Lettuce Dream ($79k).

Does Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gary G Taylor Charitable Tr, Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr, Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust.

Where is Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust based?

Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust is based in MO.

Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust

Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$676k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$100k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$800kHousing & Shelter$586kEducation$430kRecreation & Sports$405kCommunity Improvement$333kHuman Services$315kPublic Safety & Disaster$243kArts & Culture$115kOther$0

02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k4 grants · $20k
$10k–50k14 grants · $262k
$50k–250k5 grants · $393k

$19,235

Median grant

States reached

$9.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NODAWAY COUNTY MINISTRY CENTER	$100,000
NODAWAY COUNTY MINISTRY CENTER	$89,400
HOPKINS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT	$75,000
THE MINISTRY CENTER	$75,000
COMMUNITY SERVICES INC	$54,000
MARYVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY	$32,270
HOPKINS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT	$30,000
CLEARMONT COMMUNITY CLUB	$25,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$25,000
NORTH NODAWAY R-VI SCHOOL DISTRICT	$20,000
MARVYILLE R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT	$20,000
HOPKINS BALL ASSOCIATION	$19,235
NODAWAY COUNTY AMBULANCE DISTRICT	$16,500
NODAWAY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SENATE	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $681k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.6M · 29 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.6M

$698k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+32%

Still filing today

28%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $429k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationAnimalsEmploymentRecreation & SportsOther

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

TM
THE MINISTRY CENTER INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $546k · revenue +214% · 43% of their budget
LD
LETTUCE DREAM
6× · 2018–2025 · $79k · revenue +203% · 27% of their budget
SF
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
2× · 2019–2020 · $75k · revenue +33%

Funded once

NC
NODAWAY CTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
one grant, 2019 · $75k
NC
NODAWAY CTY COMMUNITY FAIR INC
one grant, 2018 · $65k
HC
HOPKINS COMMUNITY CLUB
one grant, 2024 · $59k · revenue -29%

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

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.

Waynoka Historical Society

Preserving waynoka railroad depot

Arts & Culture

Olde Towne Nipomo Association Inc

Revitalization of downtown olde nipmo.

Community Improvement

Nolensville Historical Society

Promote the history of nolensville and the preservation of its historical sites.

Arts & Culture

Harrison County Council On Aging

Provide services & meals to the elderly.

Human Services

St Charles Historical Society

Collection and preservation of historical documents pertaining to saint charles county, missouri and making them available to the general public

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Norman County Agriculture Society

Agricultural fair

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Northeast Missouri Sheltered Workshop

To provide productive employment opportunities to educable and trainable handicapped individuals

—

Hannibal Area Council of Aging

Provided meals for the elderly, low income, handicapped, or special needs citizens.

Human Services

Nixa Senior Citizens Center

Provide services to senior citizens

—

Neosho Memorial Hospital Foundation

—

Nicholas County Senior Center

Food & Nutrition

Holt County Museum & Research Center

To discover, collect, display, and preserve historically significant artifacts and records pertaining to holt county missouri

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopkins Community Club; the most unlike its peers is Lettuce Dream. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 80 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/16

Grantees still filing

11/16

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,711,194Human Services$681,258Community Improvement$196,707Employment$57,495Recreation & Sports$32,073Education$14,475Animals$5,000

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.

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.

Gary G Taylor Charitable TrWI22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gary G Taylor Charitable Tr · Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr · Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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