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John Cragin Private Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SW MO | $768 |
| JOPLIN FAMILY Y | $768 |
| JOPLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $768 |
| GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $768 |
| JOY SPIVA CRAGIN CHARITABLE TR | $768 |
| Individual grant recipient | $768 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $768 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OF JOPLIN | $768 |
| OSAGE PRAIRIE YMCA | $768 |
| OZARK CENTER- TURN AROUND RANCH | $768 |
| FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC- | $768 |
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 (FY22–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- JFJOPLIN FAMILY Y2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +40%
- CCCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +62%
- JHJOPLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- TJTHOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +43%
- CJCRAGIN JOY SPIVA CHARITABLE TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +383%
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.
The johnson county ymca is a charitable, community service organization that includes men, women, and children of all ages, abilities, incomes, races, and religions. we are dedicated to building strong kids, strong families, and strong…
The missoula family ymca's mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the y serves families and individuals of all ages, abilities, incomes, races and religions.…
To promote the christian way of living among its members and constituents, to promote the physical, mental & spiritual welfare of persons and to emphasize reverence for god, responsibility for the common good, respect for personality and…
Meseum
Mcpherson family ymca's mission is to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. the ymca is a powerful association of men, women, and children committed to bringing…
The boys and girls club of southwest missouri seeks to identify and address gaps in services to children and families in southwest missouri. programming includes child and teen safety, substance
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
The mission of the ymca of central new mexico is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. for over 100 years, the ymca of central new mexico has served our community…
The Family YMCA of Emporia-Greensville's purpose is to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. The YMCA is a powerful association of men, women, and children…
The mission of freeman health services is to improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, quality healthcare solutions.
The shasta family ymca strengthens community through programs and activities that create a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Southern Illinois Hospital Services (SIHS) is dedicated to promoting the health and well being of all of the people in the communities we serve. Our mission is guided by our values: compassion, collaboration, quality, stewardship,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Joplin Family Y and the most unlike its peers is Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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 JOPLIN FAMILY Y ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds OSAGE PRAIRIE YMCA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRAGIN JOY SPIVA CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
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: Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · Arvest Foundation · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Amazonsmile 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 John Cragin Private 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.