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John Cragin Private Foundation at a glance

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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.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$768
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Human Services$8kArts & Culture$4kHealth$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kYouth Development$2kEducation$1kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$768
Median grant
2
States reached
$182k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$768
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SW MO$768
JOPLIN FAMILY Y$768
OZARK CENTER- TURN AROUND RANCH$768
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$768
JOPLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$768
GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS$768
OSAGE PRAIRIE YMCA$768
FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC-$768
JOY SPIVA CRAGIN CHARITABLE TR$768
COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC OF JOPLIN$768
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $768 → 14%OSAGE PRARIE YMCA: $1k → 18%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $1k → 18%OSAGE PRAIRIE YMCA: $768 → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 9 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$17k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+383%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • JF
    JOPLIN FAMILY Y
    2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +40%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
    2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +62%
  • JH
    JOPLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +43%
  • CJ
    CRAGIN JOY SPIVA CHARITABLE TRUSTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +383%
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
Johnson County Family Ymca

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…

Recreation & Sports
2
Greater Missoula Family Ymca

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.…

Human Services
3
Jefferson City Area Ymca

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…

—
4
Joyce Museum Society

Meseum

Arts & Culture
5
Mcpherson Family Ymca

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…

—
6
Boys & Girls Club of Joplin

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

Youth Development
7
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

—
8
Young Men's Christian Association of Central New Mexico

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…

—
9
Family Ymca of Emporia-Greensville Inc

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…

Recreation & Sports
10
Freeman Health System

The mission of freeman health services is to improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, quality healthcare solutions.

Health
11
Shasta County Young Men's Christian Association

The shasta family ymca strengthens community through programs and activities that create a healthy spirit, mind and body for all.

Human Services
12
Southern Illinois Hospital Services

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,…

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

9 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. 9 of the 13 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $1,929 · OtherCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURIJOPLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,929 · OtherJOPLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETYFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC: $1,929 · OtherFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SW MO: $1,929 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SW MOOZARK CENTER TURNAROUND RANCH: $1,929 · OtherOZARK CENTER TURNAROUND RANCHCRAGIN JOY SPIVA CHARITABLE TRUST: $1,161 · OtherCRAGIN JOY SPIVA CHARITABLE TRUSTJOY SPIVA CRAGIN CHARITABLE TR: $768 · OtherJOY SPIVA CRAGIN CHARITABLE TRIndividual grant recipient: $768 · OtherIndividual grant recipientJOPLIN FAMILY Y: $1,929 · Human ServicesJOPLIN FAMILY YOSAGE PRAIRIE YMCA: $1,929 · Human ServicesOSAGE PRAIRIE YMCAAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,929 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & …GEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,929 · Arts & CultureGEORGE A S…THOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOL: $1,161 · Education
Other$12,342Human Services$5,787Arts & Culture$1,929Education$1,161

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 budgetJOPLIN FAMILY Y: $1,929 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $1,929 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJOPLIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,929 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC: $1,929 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE A SPIVA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,929 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOSAGE PRAIRIE YMCA: $1,929 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $1,929 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON INDEP DAY SCHOOL: $1,161 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRAGIN JOY SPIVA CHARITABLE TRUST: $1,161 over 1y, 20% 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.

Cragin Joy Spiva Char…Arvest FoundationFredrick G and Rebeka…W R Corley Memorial T…Community Foundation …Amazonsmile Foundation
Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable TrustMO17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John Cragin Private Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Cragin Private Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 13 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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