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Heart of Missouri United Way Inc

The heart of missouri united way works in improve lives of people in need by mobilizing and coordinating the caring power of community resources in mid-missouri.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$199k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Human Services$4.6MHealth$1.7MEducation$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MYouth Development$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MCrime & Legal$834kEmployment$513kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k12 grants · $297k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.4M
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVE COLUMBIA$198,681
VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER$135,000
CITY OF REFUGE$117,459
WILKES BLVD UMC$116,125
HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER$105,000
UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS$102,270
MID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES$100,000
COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICUL$86,920
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLUMBIA AREA$79,000
FIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN$70,000
GRADE A PLUS INC$70,000
CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION$68,014
CHA LOW INCOME SERVICES$60,000
SERVICES FOR THE INDEPENDENT LIVING$59,928
HEART OF MISSOURI CASA$43,103
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Central MO Foster Care & Adop: $44k → 10%Harrisburg Early Learning Ctr: $120k → 17%HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $120k → 17%HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $105k → 17%Harrisburg Early Learning Ctr: $67k → 17%Harrisburg Early Learning Ctr: $67k → 17%Harrisburg Early Learning Ctr: $67k → 17%HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $50k → 17%Harrisburg Early Learning Ctr: $33k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $158k → 17%LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST OF COLUM: $106k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $102k → 17%Love in the Name of Christ of: $96k → 17%Job Point: $91k → 17%Love in the Name of Christ of: $86k → 17%JOB POINT: $85k → 17%Job Point: $78k → 17%Love in the Name of Christ of: $43k → 17%United Comm Builders: $153k → 17%CITY OF REFUGE: $117k → 17%CITY OF REFUGE: $92k → 17%United Comm Builders: $67k → 17%City of Refuge: $67k → 17%City of Refuge: $67k → 17%United Comm Builders: $67k → 17%United Comm Builders: $67k → 17%CHA LOW INCOME SERVICES: $60k → 17%CHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INC: $57k → 17%Columbia Housing Authority: $57k → 17%COLUMBIA HOUSING AUTHORITY: $55k → 17%TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA: $40k → 17%TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA: $40k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $40k → 17%United Comm Builders: $37k → 17%City of Refuge: $30k → 17%Columbia Housing Authority: $22k → 17%Columbia Housing Authority: $22k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $199k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $194k → 17%Love Columbia: $100k → 17%Love Columbia: $100k → 17%Job Point: $78k → 17%Job Point: $78k → 17%City of Refuge: $59k → 17%City of Refuge: $58k → 17%CITY OF REFUGE: $56k → 17%Central MO Foster Care & Adop: $44k → 17%Job Point: $39k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 38 repeat orgs$77k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against -98% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
3

Total granted

$13M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-98%

Still filing today

87%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • LC
    Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia
    8× · 2017–2024 · $922k · revenue +37%
  • VA
    VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $754k · revenue +731%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $690k · revenue ×51 · 83% of their budget

Funded once

  • CY
    COMO YOUTH WORKS
    one grant, 2017 · $21k · revenue -100%
  • CT
    Cradle to Career Alliance
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue -98%
  • UY
    UNIVERSITY Y OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
St Louis Association of Community Organizations

Community Development and Community Center and social services

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2
Cornerstone Center for Early Learning

Nurturing confident young minds. supporting all families.

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3
Jackson County Community Children's Services Fund

Children's services fund ('csf') is an innovative way to support child well-being projects. while we are funded by a jackson county sales tax, we are a stand-alone organization led by an independent board. (continued on schedule o)we are…

Human Services
4
Missouri Accreditation of Programs for Children & Youth

Promotion of child care excellence in missouri

Education
5
Community Coordinated Child Care Inc

To ensure that every child has access to high quality early care and education through integrated support and equitable practices.

Human Services
6
St Martin's Child Center

Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri

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7
United Inner City Services Inc

Earlystart carries out its mission "building bridges. inspiring minds. impacting futures." through the earlystart child and family development centers. highly-trained faculty utilize a project-based curriculum in an arts-infused…

Human Services
8
Community Coordinated Child Care of Southern Indiana Inc

We believe every child deserves the opportunity to develop into a healthy, contributing citizen. we engage the community and provide a leading voice to improve the accessibility, affordability and quality of child care.

Human Services
9
Cobb Children's Learning Center

To ensure equitable access to high-quality care and early education for douglas county, oregon families.

Education
10
Community Connections for Children Inc

Ccc connects families to resources, collaborates with early childhood education programs, and engages with the community to create a foundation for children to be successful in life.

Human Services
11
County North Children's Center Inc

To offer quality child care at affordable prices.

Human Services
12
Center for Community Services

The center for community services empowers families to break the cycle of poverty through crisis assistance and employment readiness.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Missouri Community Action and the most unlike its peers is Jabberwocky Studios. 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 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr11%6%5–10yr16%19%10–20yr14%25%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr27%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr11%1%5–10yr16%24%10–20yr14%19%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr27%28%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
7%
3/43
the rest of the field
14%
144/1,047

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.

04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 44 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/40
Grantees still filing
26/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia — $922,185 · Human ServicesLove Columbia Corp Love ColumbiaUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO — $689,916 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNI…HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $628,545 · Human ServicesHARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTERCITY OF REFUGE — $547,159 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGEJOB POINT — $449,819 · Human ServicesJOB POINTCHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INC — $272,989 · Human ServicesCHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INCTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC — $215,982 · Human ServicesTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC+3 more — $158,648 · Human ServicesWILKES BOULEVARD UNITED METHODIST — $594,721 · OtherWILKES BOULEVARD UNITED METHODISTMID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES — $577,156 · OtherMID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICESPhoenix Programs Inc — $300,926 · OtherPhoenix Programs IncLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI — $264,834 · OtherLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE…The Salvation Army — $249,688 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyCENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION — $247,042 · OtherCENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTIONFamily Counseling Center — $237,142 · OtherFamily Counseling CenterFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF BOONE COUNTY — $202,927 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI — $512,989 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST …GRADE A PLUS INCORPORATED — $441,630 · OtherGRADE A PLUS INCORPORATEDHEART OF MISSOURI CASA — $177,221 · Other+12 more — $616,458 · Other+12 moreMARY LEE JOHNSTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $710,614 · EducationMARY LEE JO…FIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN — $379,741 · EducationFIRST CHANC…Nora Stewart Early Learning Center — $196,678 · EducationNora Stewar…INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO — $493,697 · HealthCOMPASS HEALTH INC — $477,622 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND — $51,899 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA — $643,588 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC — $344,645 · Youth Development+1 more — $20,715 · Youth DevelopmentVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER — $754,158 · PhilanthropyColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture — $607,635 · Environment
Human Services$3,885,243Other$4,422,734Education$1,287,033Health$1,023,218Youth Development$1,008,948Philanthropy$754,158Environment$607,635

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia — $922,185 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER — $754,158 over 8y, 12% of budgetMARY LEE JOHNSTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER — $710,614 over 7y, 17% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO — $689,916 over 8y, 83% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA — $643,588 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetHARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER — $628,545 over 8y, 30% of budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture — $607,635 over 8y, 13% of budgetWILKES BOULEVARD UNITED METHODIST — $594,721 over 8y, 21% of budgetMID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES — $577,156 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE — $547,159 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI — $512,989 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO — $493,697 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetCOMPASS HEALTH INC — $477,622 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJOB POINT — $449,819 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetGRADE A PLUS INCORPORATED — $441,630 over 8y, 74% of budgetFIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN — $379,741 over 8y, 22% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC — $344,645 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetPhoenix Programs Inc — $300,926 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetCHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INC — $272,989 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI — $264,834 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION — $247,042 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC — $215,982 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF BOONE COUNTY — $202,927 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNora Stewart Early Learning Center — $196,678 over 3y, 28% of budgetHEART OF MISSOURI CASA — $177,221 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE — $141,309 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJabberwocky Studios — $117,138 over 6y, 28% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION — $111,120 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Playground of Columbia — $109,500 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetROCK THE COMMUNITY — $91,431 over 6y, 13% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND — $51,899 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNLIMITED OPPORTUNITIES INC — $51,269 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBoonslick Heartland YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $32,528 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE INC — $24,240 over 3y, 15% of budgetCHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $23,049 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMO YOUTH WORKS — $20,715 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS MIDWEST — $16,974 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCradle to Career Alliance — $7,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY Y OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA — $6,398 over 1y, 6.3% of budget
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 Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds MARY LEE JOHNSTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA ↗
  • Who funds HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture ↗
  • Who funds WILKES BOULEVARD UNITED METHODIST ↗
  • Who funds MID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds JOB POINT ↗
  • Who funds GRADE A PLUS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Programs Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF BOONE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Nora Stewart Early Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI CASA ↗
  • Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds Jabberwocky Studios ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Community Playground of Columbia ↗
  • Who funds ROCK THE COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND ↗
  • Who funds UNLIMITED OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Boonslick Heartland YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMO YOUTH WORKS ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS MIDWEST ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM KONNECTIONS ↗

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.

Veterans United Found…Allen P and Josephine…Boone Electric Commun…Boone County Communit…Stafford Family Chari…Missouri Children's T…Orscheln Industries F…Fred V & Dorothy H He…Mfa Oil FoundationUnited Way of Greater…The Alden Family Foun…McCortney Foundation
Veterans United FoundationMO67.8× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Boone Electric Community Trust · Boone County Community Trust · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Missouri Children's Trust Fund · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation · Mfa Oil Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · The Alden Family Foundation · McCortney 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 Heart of Missouri United Way Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 44 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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