· Private foundation
Helen N Poston Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| PONY EXPRESS COUNCIL BSA | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE | $10,000 |
| AFL-CIO NWMO UNITED LABOR COMMUNITY SERV | $10,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KS NW MO | $7,500 |
| ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF ST JOSEPH | $4,500 |
| PONY EXPRESS NATIONAL MUSEUM | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–21, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +16% since the first grant, against -17% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SJST JOSEPH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC4× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +19%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2017–2021 · $15k · revenue +46%
- ODOPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOOD KITCHEN3× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- ICINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue -17%
- SHSECOND HARVEST COMM FOOD BANKone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NUNWMO UNITED LABOR COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Unite the caring power of communities to invest in effective solutions to improve people's lives.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.
Harvesters mobilizes the power of our community to create equitable access to nutritious food and address the root causes and impact of hunger.
To provide quality, cost-effective, accessible, and affordable healthcare to the community.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
The tulsa area united way unites people and resources to improve lives and strengthen our communities.
United way of central ohio is the local organization that harnesses the power of communities working together - people, nonprofits, businesses and government - to create a stronger, more equitable central ohio. see schedule o.we do this…
Engaging the community to end hunger
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Community Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Open Door Community Food Kitchen. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 46 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 SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Community Services ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR COMMUNITY FOOD KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT CENTER ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PONY EXPRESS MUSEUM INC ↗
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 · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable · Heartland Regional Medical Center · Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr · The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Land O'Lakes Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Helen N Poston Charitable Trust 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.