· Private foundation
Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $113k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUBA DBA NOYES HOME FOR CHILDREN | $23,510 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOU | $20,000 |
| SISTERS OF SOLACE | $15,000 |
| NODAWAY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SENATE IN | $13,000 |
| NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI COLLEGE FOUNDATIO | $11,466 |
| ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING | $10,000 |
| WEST NODAWAY R-1 SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST JOSEPH SAFETY & HEALTH COUNCIL | $8,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $7,500 |
| ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| NORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| NORTHWEST MISSOURI ENTERPRISE FACILITATI | $4,975 |
| THE SOURCE MEDICAL CLINIC | $4,900 |
| YMCA | $4,900 |
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 (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 6 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, 84% 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
- PPPIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC8× · 2018–2025 · $67k · revenue +98%
- EBELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION4× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
- SOSISTERS OF SOLACE4× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +101%
Funded once
- ACANDREW COUNTY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -24%
- CLCRAIG LEVEE COMMITTEEone grant, 2021 · $20k
- COCITY OF BURLINGTON JUNCTIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Operation of a local history museum.
To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.
Collection and preservation of historical documents pertaining to saint charles county, missouri and making them available to the general public
To work for the advancement of the business community, to enhance the economic, civic and cultural environment, and to improve the quality of life in jefferson parish, louisiana.
Education and preservation of history.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
To collect, preserve, publish, exhibit, and make available material related to all aspects and periods of missouri history. the society also seeks to generate interest in and appreciation of the rich cultural heritage of the state and its…
Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
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
Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Community Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Holt county historical society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 34. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
38 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. 38 of the 124 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC ↗
- Who funds PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SISTERS OF SOLACE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LETTUCE DREAM ↗
- Who funds ANDREW COUNTY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Nodaway County Senior Citizens Senate Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds ALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH SAFETY AND HEALTH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ANDREW COUNTY HEALTH AND SAFETY COALITION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOOD KITCHEN ↗
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: Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · Gary G Taylor Charitable Tr · The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc · Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Heartland Regional Medical Center · The Depriest Family Foundation Inc · Gladys M Rickard Charitable Trust · The Sunderland Foundation · Helen N Poston Charitable Trust · Spratt Leah Charitable Trust
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 Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr 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.