· Private foundation
Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust
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
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 $10k29 grants · $133k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $253k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY CLINIC | $40,000 |
| YMCA | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CARTERVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC | $20,000 |
| JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| SOUTHWEST MISSOURI COMM ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HAVEN | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SW MISSOURI | $12,500 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN | $12,500 |
| BRIGHT FUTURES JOPLIN | $12,500 |
| MAIN STREET JOPLIN | $12,500 |
| CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SW MISSOURI | $12,500 |
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $228k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% 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 +10% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 11 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- CCCARTERVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +46% · 72% of their budget
- MSMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +110%
- CHCHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO7× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICAone grant, 2019 · $20k
- SDSCHOOL DISTRICT OF JOPLIN R-VIIIone grant, 2019 · $20k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY OF JOPLIN MOone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
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
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
Jefferson regional's mission is improving health through excellence and compassion with a vision to be the healthcare provider and employer of choice for southeast arkansas.
Development of jobs in the joplin, mo area
To put the needs of the patient first by empowering a culture where caregivers bring their best, ensuring a healthier future for generations to come.
The jefferson comprehensive care system, inc. provides primary health care and related health education and social services to persons in designated service areas within arkansas.
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
The mission of the community clinic of southwest missouri is to improve the health of people in our community without access to medical, dental, or mental health care.
Avila university, a catholic university sponsored by saint joseph educational ministries, a ministerial public juridic person of the catholic church (sjem), is a values-based community of learning providing liberal arts, professional,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Joplin and the most unlike its peers is Joplin Historical & Mineral Museum Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 102 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 CARTERVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN HISTORICAL & MINERAL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN FAMILY Y ↗
- Who funds Creative Learning Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Connect2Culture ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE ↗
- Who funds NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds LIFECHOICES ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PRO MUSICA ↗
- Who funds GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds WILDCAT GLADES NATURE GROUP ↗
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: W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · Freeman R Johnson Trust · Arvest Foundation · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · Cloyd a Carlin Charitable Trust · The Bramlage and Willcoxon Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities · The Farber 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 Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons 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.
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