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Jobs for America's Graduates - Missouri Inc

Jag-missouri is dedicated to helping young people who have potential, but who are, for a variety of reasons, at-risk for not graduating from high school.

$261k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$1.1MRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $186,013, the rows itemized in this filing. The $261,287 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $75,274 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $168k
$15,247
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENNETT SCHOOL DISTRICT$31,234
VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT$20,234
EAST CARTER COUNTY R-II SCHOOL DIST$18,668
CHARLESTON R-I SCHOOL DISTRICT$18,666
FARMINGTON R-7 SCHOOL DISTRICT$17,425
CENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT$15,247
NEELYVILLE R-IV SCHOOL DISTRICT$14,184
CAMPBELL R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT$11,429
WEST PLAINS SCHOOL DISTRICT$11,189
MALDEN R-I SCHOOL DISTRICT$10,034
CAPE GIRARDEAU PUBLIC SCHOOLS$9,879
CARUTHERSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT 18$7,824
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 20%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 20%DE SOTO 73 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $29k → 9%MISSOURI DEPT OF HIGHER EDUCATION &: $28k → 10%JENNINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 11%SEDALIA SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 13%CAPE GIRARDEAU PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $13k → 14%SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 15%KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $13k → 15%PURDY R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT: $13k → 17%RISCO SCHOOL DISTRICT: $28k → 17%BOLIVAR SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 18%CENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT: $23k → 19%WEST PLAINS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $13k → 19%ARCADIA VALLEY R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT: $22k → 19%EAST CARTER COUNTY R-II SCHOOL DIST: $21k → 20%LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY: $18k → 21%EAST PRAIRIE R-11 SCHOOLS: $16k → 25%CAMPBELL R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT: $21k → 26%CARUTHERSVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT 18: $13k → 30%DE SOTO 73 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $13k → 9%SMITH-COTTON HIGH SCHOOL: $14k → 13%CAPE GIRARDEAU PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $12k → 14%RISCO SCHOOL DISTRICT: $12k → 17%CENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT: $19k → 19%WEST PLAINS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $12k → 19%EAST CARTER COUNTY R-II SCHOOL DIST: $20k → 20%CHARLESTON R-I SCHOOL DISTRICT: $32k → 25%CAMPBELL R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT: $11k → 26%GIDEON SCHOOL DISTRICT 37: $13k → 17%CENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT: $19k → 19%WEST PLAINS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $11k → 19%EAST CARTER COUNTY R-II SCHOOL DIST: $19k → 20%CHARLESTON R-I SCHOOL DISTRICT: $19k → 25%CENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT: $15k → 19%EAST CARTER COUNTY R-II SCHOOL DIST: $15k → 20%MALDEN R-I SCHOOL DISTRICT: $13k → 26%PORTAGEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 17%CENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT: $12k → 19%VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $24k → 20%MALDEN R-I SCHOOL DISTRICT: $12k → 26%VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $22k → 20%SOUTH PEMISCOT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $14k → 30%FARMINGTON R-7 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $23k → 19%VAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 20%KENNETT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $33k → 26%FARMINGTON R-7 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $17k → 19%KENNETT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $32k → 26%FARMINGTON R-7 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $13k → 19%KENNETT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $31k → 26%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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$889k · 18 repeat orgs$290k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
19

Total granted

$889k
$290k

Still filing today

0%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • KS
    KENNETT SCHOOL DISTRICT
    4× · 2019–2025 · $106k
  • CR
    CENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT
    5× · 2019–2025 · $88k
  • EC
    EAST CARTER COUNTY R-II SCHOOL DIST
    4× · 2019–2025 · $75k

Funded once

  • C
    CHARLESTON
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • RG
    RIVERVIEW GARDENS SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • MD
    MISSOURI DEPT OF HIGHER EDUCATION &
    one grant, 2023 · $28k
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
04the grantee network

1 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. 1 of the 37 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
1/1
Grantees still filing
1/1
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENNETT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $105,609 · OtherKENNETT SCHOOL DISTRICTCENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT: $87,677 · OtherCENTRAL R-III SCHOOL DISTRICTEAST CARTER COUNTY R-II SCHOOL DIST: $74,713 · OtherEAST CARTER COUNTY R-II SCHOOL DISTVAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICT: $66,901 · OtherVAN BUREN SCHOOL DISTRICTFARMINGTON R-7 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $63,132 · OtherFARMINGTON R-7 SCHOOL DISTRICTCHARLESTON R-I SCHOOL DISTRICT: $60,541 · OtherWEST PLAINS SCHOOL DISTRICT: $45,266 · OtherCAMPBELL R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT: $42,833 · OtherDE SOTO 73 SCHOOL DISTRICT: $42,000 · OtherRISCO SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40,278 · OtherPORTAGEVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $40,000 · Other+25 more: $492,716 · Other+25 moreLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $17,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,161,666Recreation & Sports$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC: $17,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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 LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Jobs for America's Graduates - Missouri Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jobs for America's Graduates - Missouri Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    1report 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 37 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 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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