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Heart of Missouri United Way Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Heart of Missouri United Way Inc

The heart of missouri united way works to positively impact lives by empowering people and organizations through strategic resource investments.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$194k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$4.6MHealth$1.7MEducation$1.4MFood & Nutrition$1.1MYouth Development$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MCrime & Legal$834kEmployment$513kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.3M
$62,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOVE COLUMBIA$193,681
VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER$125,000
WILKES BLVD UMC$116,125
CITY OF REFUGE$109,959
HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER$105,000
MID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES$100,000
UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS$98,270
COLUMBIA CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICUL$81,920
CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION$78,014
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLUMBIA AREA$74,000
FIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN$72,500
GRADE A PLUS INC$70,000
CHA LOW INCOME SERVICES$62,500
SERVICES FOR THE INDEPENDENT LIVING$59,929
TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA$39,988
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, $4.4M) 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 its 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 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%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $158k → 17%LOVE IN THE NAME OF CHRIST OF COLUM: $106k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $102k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $98k → 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: $110k → 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: $63k → 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%TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA: $40k → 17%UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS: $40k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $199k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $194k → 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%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.
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 41 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -98% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
3

Total granted

$15M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-98%

Still filing today

85%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • LC
    Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +82%
  • VA
    VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $879k · revenue ×18
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO
    9× · 2017–2025 · $788k · 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%
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
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
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
4
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
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
Missouri Accreditation of Programs for Children & Youth

Promotion of child care excellence in missouri

Education
8
Cobb Children's Learning Center

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

Education
9
Capital City Casa

It is the mission of the capital city casa to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children with the 19th judicial circuit of missouri, based on the belief that all children are entitled to a safe and permanent home. the…

Crime & Legal
10
Louisville Central Community Centerinc

Provides community service(family counseling & day care) to the inner of louisville.

Recreation & Sports
11
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
12
Children's Law Center of Central North Carolina

We provide children with quality legal advocacy focusing on domestic violence issues, high conflict custody cases and the rights of children in public education. our vision is to increase children's potential to become emotionally healthy…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Central Missouri Community Action; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 44 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/41
Grantees still filing
27/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $1,115,866 · Human ServicesLove Columbia Corp Love ColumbiaUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO: $788,186 · Human ServicesUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY…HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $733,545 · Human ServicesHARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTERCITY OF REFUGE: $657,118 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGEJOB POINT: $449,819 · Human ServicesJOB POINTCHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INC: $335,489 · Human ServicesCHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INCTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC: $255,970 · Human ServicesTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC+3 more: $173,648 · Human ServicesWILKES BOULEVARD UNITED METHODIST: $710,846 · OtherWILKES BOULEVARD UNITED METHODISTMID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES: $677,156 · OtherMID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICESCENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION: $325,056 · OtherCENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTIONPhoenix Programs Inc: $300,926 · OtherPhoenix Programs IncLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI: $284,131 · OtherLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVIC…The Salvation Army: $249,688 · OtherFamily Counseling Center: $237,142 · OtherFAMILY 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: $511,630 · OtherGRADE A PLUS INCORPORATEDHEART OF MISSOURI CASA: $217,180 · Other+11 more: $663,608 · Other+11 moreMARY LEE JOHNSTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $710,614 · EducationMARY LEE J…FIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN: $452,241 · EducationFIRST CHAN…Nora Stewart Early Learning Center: $196,678 · EducationNora Stewa…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA: $717,588 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC: $373,145 · Youth Development+2 more: $50,715 · Youth DevelopmentINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO: $553,626 · HealthCOMPASS HEALTH INC: $502,622 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND: $71,899 · HealthVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $879,158 · PhilanthropyColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $689,555 · Environment
Human Services$4,509,641Other$4,893,279Education$1,359,533Youth Development$1,141,448Health$1,128,147Philanthropy$879,158Environment$689,555

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 budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $1,115,866 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $879,158 over 9y, 12% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO: $788,186 over 9y, 83% of budgetHARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER: $733,545 over 9y, 30% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA: $717,588 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetWILKES BOULEVARD UNITED METHODIST: $710,846 over 9y, 21% of budgetMARY LEE JOHNSTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER: $710,614 over 7y, 17% of budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $689,555 over 9y, 13% of budgetMID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES: $677,156 over 9y, 5.8% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $657,118 over 9y, 15% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO: $553,626 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI: $512,989 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGRADE A PLUS INCORPORATED: $511,630 over 9y, 74% of budgetCOMPASS HEALTH INC: $502,622 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN: $452,241 over 9y, 22% of budgetJOB POINT: $449,819 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC: $373,145 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetCHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INC: $335,489 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION: $325,056 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPhoenix Programs Inc: $300,926 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI: $284,131 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC: $255,970 over 9y, 2.0% of budgetHEART OF MISSOURI CASA: $217,180 over 9y, 4.5% 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 budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $141,309 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Playground of Columbia: $138,500 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetJabberwocky Studios: $137,138 over 7y, 28% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION: $111,120 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetROCK THE COMMUNITY: $91,431 over 6y, 13% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND: $71,899 over 4y, 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 budgetP E A C E - PEOPLE EMBRACING ANOTHER CHOICE EFFECTIVELY: $30,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetKINGDOM KONNECTIONS: $30,000 over 2y, 13% 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
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 Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER ↗
  • Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CO ↗
  • Who funds HARRISBURG EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA AREA ↗
  • Who funds WILKES BOULEVARD UNITED METHODIST ↗
  • Who funds MARY LEE JOHNSTON COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture ↗
  • Who funds MID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds GRADE A PLUS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CHANCE FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds JOB POINT ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds CHA LOW INCOME SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI COMMUNITY ACTION ↗
  • Who funds Phoenix Programs Inc ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC ↗
  • Who funds HEART OF MISSOURI CASA ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY HEALTH CENTER OF BOONE COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Nora Stewart Early Learning Center ↗
  • Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds Community Playground of Columbia ↗
  • Who funds Jabberwocky Studios ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL MISSOURI FOSTER CARE & ADOPTION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 P E A C E - PEOPLE EMBRACING ANOTHER CHOICE EFFECTIVELY ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM KONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds HARVEST HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗

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.

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

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 Heart of Missouri United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Heart of Missouri United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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 44 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 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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