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Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$385k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$975kHealth$920kHuman Services$600kArts & Culture$292kCommunity Improvement$248kYouth Development$210kMembership Benefit$120kPublic Safety & Disaster$101kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $253k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIGHT FUTURES: $15k → 7%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $5k → 14%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $5k → 15%YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS: $3k → 15%JOPLIN FAMILY Y: $15k → 15%JOPLIN FAMILY Y: $15k → 15%JOPLIN FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 15%JOPLIN FAMILY Y: $10k → 15%JOPLIN FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 15%JOPLIN FAMILY Y: $10k → 15%JOPLIN FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 15%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $5k → 15%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $4k → 15%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $4k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 18%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $4k → 15%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $2k → 15%BRIGHT FUTURES JOPLIN: $13k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 18%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $5k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $5k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $5k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $4k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $4k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $3k → 18%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
WI
NV
CO
MO
KY
WV
DC
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 68 repeat orgs$257k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
23

Total granted

$3.6M
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+7%

Still filing today

50%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CC
    CARTERVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $120k · revenue +46% · 72% of their budget
  • MS
    MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $112k · revenue +110%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO
    7× · 2017–2024 · $111k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SD
    SCHOOL DISTRICT OF JOPLIN R-VIII
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY OF JOPLIN MO
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
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
Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce

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

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2
Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities

As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

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3
Mercy Hospital Joplin

As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.

Health
4
Jefferson Regional Foundation

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…

Health
5
Jefferson Hospital Association Inc

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.

Health
6
Joplin Business and Industrial Development Corporation

Development of jobs in the joplin, mo area

Community Improvement
7
Heartland Regional Medical Center

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.

Health
8
Jefferson Comprehensive Care System Inc

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.

Health
9
Catholic Charities of Kansas City - St Joseph Inc

Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us

Human Services
10
Jefferson Community Health Center Inc

Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.

Health
11
Community Clinic of Southwest Missouri

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.

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12
Avila University

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Joplin; 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.
04the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 102 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/49
Grantees still filing
31/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY CLINIC: $395,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CLINICREGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $240,000 · OtherREGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCEALLIANCE OF SWMO: $148,000 · OtherALLIANCE OF SWMOCARTERVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $120,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN: $117,500 · OtherJOPLIN HISTORICAL & MINERAL MUSEUM INC: $113,000 · OtherJOPLIN AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $94,992 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $90,000 · Other+67 more: $1,269,965 · Other+67 moreMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION: $112,000 · EducationMISSOURI S…CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $66,000 · EducationCROWDER CO…NEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $59,900 · EducationNEW HEIGHT…COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $55,800 · EducationCOLLEGE OF…JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $45,000 · EducationJOPLIN REG…CARL JUNCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO: $22,290 · EducationCARL JUNCT…+3 more: $11,500 · EducationThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $90,000 · HealthFREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM: $89,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $56,500 · HealthLIFECHOICES: $50,000 · Health+1 more: $8,000 · HealthJOPLIN FAMILY Y: $110,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $63,500 · Human ServicesWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $31,450 · Human ServicesBRIGHT FUTURES: $30,000 · Human ServicesAREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $18,359 · Human ServicesBright Futures Joplin: $12,500 · Human ServicesCROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $7,500 · Human ServicesCreative Learning Alliance Inc: $103,999 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET JOPLIN: $12,500 · Community ImprovementConnect2Culture: $81,875 · Arts & CultureGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $32,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO: $110,706 · Youth Development
Other$2,588,457Education$372,490Health$293,500Human Services$283,309Community Improvement$116,499Arts & Culture$113,875Youth Development$110,706

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 budgetCARTERVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $120,000 over 7y, 72% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN: $117,500 over 7y, 14% of budgetJOPLIN HISTORICAL & MINERAL MUSEUM INC: $113,000 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION: $112,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO: $110,706 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetJOPLIN FAMILY Y: $110,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCreative Learning Alliance Inc: $103,999 over 4y, 27% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM: $89,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetConnect2Culture: $81,875 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC: $72,125 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetJASPER COUNTY CASA: $72,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $66,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $63,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL HEALTH AND WELFARE: $60,400 over 9y, 36% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $59,900 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $56,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $55,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOPLIN ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND: $54,000 over 9y, 96% of budgetLIFECHOICES: $50,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetJOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE: $45,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetPRO MUSICA: $37,500 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $32,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $31,450 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWILDCAT GLADES NATURE GROUP: $29,300 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARL JUNCTION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIO: $22,290 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetAREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $18,359 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJOPLIN AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY I: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCEREBRAL PALSY OF TRI COUNTY: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST MISSOURI COMMUNITY ALLIAN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBright Futures Joplin: $12,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHIGHER POWER GARAGE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYouth Volunteer Corps: $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJOPLIN WORKSHOP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJoplin Transitional Housing Inc: $4,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOZARK TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #306: $4,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICES: $3,500 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASPIRE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $2,500 over 1y, 4.7% 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 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 ↗

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.

W R Corley Memorial T…Community Foundation …Fredrick G and Rebeka…Freeman R Johnson Tru…Arvest FoundationCragin Joy Spiva Char…Cloyd a Carlin Charit…The Bramlage and Will…Commerce Bancshares F…The Minneapolis Found…Mercy Health Southwes…The Farber Foundation
W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust ServicesMO60× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 102 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-PF 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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