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Jennings Family Foundation The

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$178kFood & Nutrition$110kInternational$98kHuman Services$48kHousing & Shelter$35kYouth Development$20kCivil Rights$2k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES$52,500
WATERED GARDENS$40,000
LIFE OF HOPE MINISTERIES$30,000
ASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES$20,000
GOD'S RESORT$15,000
BOY'S AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI$10,000
SOULS HARBOR OF AMERICA$7,500
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 (FY21–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 15%WATERED GARDENS: $40k → 18%CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA INC: $30k → 18%Watered Gardens: $20k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $20k → 18%WATERED GARDENS: $20k → 18%Watered Gardens: $10k → 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.
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$458k · 7 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$458k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $128k · revenue +5%
  • WG
    WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +45%
  • LO
    LIFE OF HOPE MINISTRIES
    5× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CC
    CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • RO
    RMHC of the Four States
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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
Refuge of Hope Ministries

Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.

Religion
2
Hope Gospel Rescue Mission Inc

Hope gospel rescue mission is a christ centered ministry in york, nebraska. helping the hurting & homeless in the name of jesus christ.

Religion
3
Las Cruces Gospel Rescue Mission

We provide a faith-based recovery program for men, women, and children who need help overcoming life's challenges.

Housing & Shelter
4
Redemption Road Ministries

Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…

Religion
5
River Bend Recovery

A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.

Health
6
Rescue Mission of Salt Lake Inc

A christian church which provides food clothing shelter and spiritual guidance to the homeless and also to provide inpatient life transformation programs

Human Services
7
House of Refuge Faith Based
Human Services
8
West Georgia Christian Retreat Ctr

Provide a place of communion and growth in personal relationship with jesus christ.

Religion
9
Faith Crusades Ministries Home

Provide housing, food and rehabilitation

Religion
10
Rhode Island Rescue Ministries

Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless

Human Services
11
Northlands Rescue Mission Inc

To provide a shelter and a place of hope where people can recover from homelessness, pain and addiction, restoring their dignity and improving their lives.

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12
Jesus House Inc

Food and shelter to the homeless and groceries/clothing assistance to poverty stricken households

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crosslines Churches of the Joplin Area; the most unlike its peers is Souls Harbor of America 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

8 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. 8 of the 9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES: $127,500 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FO…ASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $50,000 · HealthASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES INCWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $110,017 · Human ServicesWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSIONCROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA: $30,000 · Human ServicesCROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLI…LIFE OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $97,947 · InternationalLIFE OF HOPE MINISTRIE…Gods Resort Inc: $35,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOPLIN: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOULS HARBOR OF AMERICA INC: $17,500 · OtherRMHC of the Four States: $1,500 · Other
Health$177,500Human Services$140,017International$97,947Housing & Shelter$35,000Youth Development$20,000Other$19,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES: $127,500 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION: $110,017 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetLIFE OF HOPE MINISTRIES: $97,947 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC: $50,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGods Resort Inc: $35,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA: $30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOPLIN: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSOULS HARBOR OF AMERICA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 2.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Jennings Family Foundation The funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jennings Family Foundation The. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 9 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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