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Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr at a glance

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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.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$280kHuman Services$199kYouth Development$151kPublic Benefit$137kArts & Culture$124kCommunity Improvement$111kRecreation & Sports$97kPhilanthropy$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $82k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $113k
$4,900
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING$10,000
ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SISTERS OF SOLACE: $15k → 18%NODAWAY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SENATE IN: $13k → 17%LETTUCE DREAM: $10k → 17%LETTUCE DREAM: $8k → 17%LETTUCE DREAM: $5k → 17%LETTUCE DREAM: $5k → 17%NODAWAY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SENATE IN: $4k → 17%SISTERS OF SOLACE: $10k → 18%SISTERS OF SOLACE: $5k → 18%SISTERS OF SOLACE: $4k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
IA
MO
TN
DC
MS
GA
TX
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 50 repeat orgs$475k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
67

Total granted

$1.0M
$447k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

36%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther
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
    8× · 2018–2025 · $67k · revenue +98%
  • EB
    ELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +22%
  • SO
    SISTERS OF SOLACE
    4× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • AC
    ANDREW COUNTY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -24%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • CO
    CITY OF BURLINGTON JUNCTION
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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.

1
Jefferson County Historical Society

Operation of a local history museum.

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2
Jefferson County Historical Society

To preserve, maintain and restore historical artifacts and information for future generations.

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3
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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4
The Jefferson Chamber of Commerce

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.

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5
Jefferson County Historical Society

Education and preservation of history.

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6
Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health
7
Missouri Historical Society

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.…

Arts & Culture
8
The State Historical Society of Missouri

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…

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9
Northland Health Care Access

Operating an integrated community health system providing access to health care for the uninsured low income residents of three counties in Missouri

Health
10
Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum Association

To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county

Arts & Culture
11
Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce

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

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12
Jefferson County Memorial Hospital Inc

Promote and provide quality healthcare for the general commuinty of Jefferson County

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Community Food Bank; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 124 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
22/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANDREW COUNTY YOUTH FOUNDATION: $89,618 · OtherANDREW COUNTY YOUTH FOUNDATIONCITY OF SAVANNAH: $72,467 · OtherCITY OF SAVANNAHCITY OF SAVANNAH PARKS AND REC DEPARTMEN: $72,002 · OtherCITY OF SAVANNAH PARKS AND REC DEPARTMENUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $45,000 · Other+98 more: $897,247 · Other+98 morePIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC: $66,600 · EducationNORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC: $69,300 · PhilanthropyINTERSERV FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropySISTERS OF SOLACE: $33,750 · Human ServicesLETTUCE DREAM: $27,600 · Human ServicesNodaway County Senior Citizens Senate Inc: $17,000 · Human ServicesANDREW COUNTY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART: $13,300 · Arts & CultureHOLT COUNTY MUSEUM & RESEARCH CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & CultureST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC: $7,500 · Arts & Cultureholt county historical society: $2,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 · Community ImprovementANDREW COUNTY FAIR BOARD: $10,000 · Community ImprovementMOUND CITY DOWNTOWN RESTORATION AND REVITALIZATION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSTANBERRY MAIN STREET: $5,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE FREE CLINIC INC: $15,000 · HealthANDREW COUNTY HEALTH AND SAFETY COALITION: $10,800 · HealthFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 · HealthHeartland Foundation: $10,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $9,000 · Health
Other$1,176,334Education$81,600Philanthropy$79,300Human Services$78,350Arts & Culture$60,300Community Improvement$60,000Health$54,800

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC: $69,300 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPIVOTAL POINT TRANSITIONAL HOUSING INC: $66,600 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetSISTERS OF SOLACE: $33,750 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLETTUCE DREAM: $27,600 over 4y, 12% of budgetANDREW COUNTY MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetAGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA: $21,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNodaway County Senior Citizens Senate Inc: $17,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FREE CLINIC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetANDREW COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING INC: $14,400 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART: $13,300 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetST JOSEPH SAFETY AND HEALTH COUNCIL: $11,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetANDREW COUNTY HEALTH AND SAFETY COALITION: $10,800 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOOD KITCHEN: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetANDREW COUNTY FAIR BOARD: $10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHeartland Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER ST JOSEPH: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHOLT COUNTY MUSEUM & RESEARCH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetINTERSERV FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARTLETT CENTER: $9,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTANBERRY MAIN STREET: $5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetST JOSEPH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $4,973 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS COUNSELING GROUPINC: $4,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $4,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF MIDDLE AMERICA INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Kansas City: $4,311 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JOSEPH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW NODAWAY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 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 ↗

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.

Harold P Dugdale Char…Gary G Taylor Charita…The Community Foundat…Norma J and William J…Wm and Margaret Schre…Commerce Bancshares F…Heartland Regional Me…The Depriest Family F…Gladys M Rickard Char…The Sunderland Founda…Helen N Poston Charit…Spratt Leah Charitabl…
Harold P Dugdale Charitable TrustMN53.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 124 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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