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Howard & Sara Fleming Charitable Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 91% of HOWARD & SARA FLEMING CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $13,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| CRU | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FOREST & WOODLAND ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| YOUNG LIFE AFRICAMIDDLE EAST | $500 |
| DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION | $300 |
| COATES STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $200 |
| MISSOURI PRAIRIE FOUNDATION | $125 |
| THE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL AND NE MO | $100 |
| CARING HEARTS AND HANDS | $100 |
| NATIONAL DEER ASSOCIATION | $100 |
| CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $100 |
| SOUTHMONT BAPTIST CHURCH | $100 |
| TRINITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $100 |
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 (FY19–22, $11k) 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 +44% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +9%- CDCASA DE SALUD2× · 2017–2022 · $2k · revenue +109%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE2× · 2020–2024 · $1k · revenue +106%
Funded once
- OIOATS INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +27%
- HOHOMECARE OF MID-MISSOURIone grant, 2019 · $10k
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - GREAT RIVERone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Msma's mission is to serve its members through promotion of the science & art of medicine, protection of the health of the public & betterment of the medical profession in missouri.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of the munson healthcare manistee hospital foundation is to raise, manage,and grant funds to support munson healthcare manistee hospital's mission to provide accessible, quality, compassionate healthcare services to improve the…
Methodist health provides quality healthcare services with a compassionate and caring spirit to persons, families and communities of the tri-state. at methodist health, our values are based on our commitment to quality. we define quality…
To be the trusted partner in all healthcare decisions and to improve health by providing highly accessible, world-class care and services.
The Missouri Corn Growers Association is a grassroots organization directed by its members dedicated to increasing the profitability of corn production by developing and expanding corn markets; collecting and distributing information;…
The mission of the munson healthcare charlevoix hospital foundation is to raise, manage,and grant funds to support munson healthcare charlevoix hospital's mission to provide accessible, quality, compassionate healthcare services to improve…
In its role as the principal business recruitment and marketing organization for missouri, the missouri partnership attracts new jobs and business investments to the state through collaborative efforts with other state and local economic…
The mission of the missouri coalition for oral health is to improve oral health with all missourians by advocating for sound public policy.
The mission of the munson healthcare otsego memorial hospital foundation is to provide a comprehensive program of fund development that supports the mission and vision of munson healthcare otsego memorial hospital.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
The mvma mission is to serve the members, promote the veterinary medical profession, and enhance the veterinarian's ability to advance animal and human health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Delta Gamma Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mcdowell Arts Council Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 97 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 OATS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMECARE OF MID-MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN MISSOURI COMMUNITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds DELTA GAMMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASA DE SALUD ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI DENTAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION FEDERATION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MOBILITY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds ST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST AND WOODLAND ASSOCIATION OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds BARNABAS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MCDOWELL ARTS COUNCIL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Duke Energy Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Howard & Sara Fleming Charitable Foundation 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.
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