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John Q Hammons Foundation Inc

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$924k
Granted FY2018
46
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$73k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.

Health$634kRecreation & Sports$335kPhilanthropy$230kHuman Services$210kYouth Development$205kReligion$83kCrime & Legal$71kHousing & Shelter$53kOther$0
02FY2018 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k13 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $653k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $182k
$16,043
Median grant
2
States reached
$161k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDRENS SMILE CENTER$72,969
SILVER DOLLAR CITY FOUNDATION$55,440
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$53,891
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN$49,179
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OZARKS INC$41,793
CARDINALS CARE FOUNDATION$38,724
CHANCES OF STONE COUNTY INC$36,010
MUSIC THERAPY OF THE OZARKS$33,377
LEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI$30,113
A SPORTING CHANCE$26,908
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKS$23,537
THE ARC OF THE OZARKS FOUNDATION$22,985
CHRISTIAN COUNTY FAMILY CRISIS CENTER$22,740
CHAMPIONS COMMITTED TO KIDS$22,143
CONVOY OF HOPE$22,044
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $127k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHANCES OF STONE COUNTY INC: $36k → 13%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $7k → 15%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $21k → 19%CHANCES OF STONE COUNTY INC: $27k → 13%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $6k → 15%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $15k → 19%DOGWOOD RANCH: $10k → 8%DOGWOOD RANCH: $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 39 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
2

Total granted

$1.7M
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+52%

Still filing today

77%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES
    2× · 2017–2018 · $117k · revenue +120%
  • SD
    SILVER DOLLAR CITY FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $110k · revenue +36%
  • CS
    CHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $108k · revenue +211%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SUMMIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURIgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +52%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Arc of the Ozarks

To be a leader in service delivery for persons with disabilities by providing an array of supports and services to integrate them into their communities and to enhance the quality of their lives.

—
2
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…

Crime & Legal
3
Special Olympics Arkansas Inc

To provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of olympic-type sports for all children and adults with intellectual disabilities giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate…

—
4
Ozark Opportunities Inc

To render constructive civic service, including the sponsorship of social, educational, and economic projects for the promotion of the welfare of the community and the citizens of the ozarks situated in baxter, boone, marion, newton,…

Community Improvement
5
Developmental Center of the Ozarks

Developmental center of the ozarks makes a positive difference in the community by providing services which enable individuals to reach and maintain their optimal level of development.

Human Services
6
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.

—
7
Nova Center of the Ozarks Inc

Nova center of the ozarks, inc strives to make possible the potential for positive change in the quality of life for every individual with a developmental disability, regardless of the nature of that disability.

Human Services
8
Opportunity Arkansas Foundation

Renewing the land of opportunity by simplifying government and solving generational problems for the next generation.

Philanthropy
9
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
10
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
11
Healthcare Services of the Ozarks Inc

To provide high quality care and set the standards of excellence for those we serve.

Health
12
Ozarks New Hope Inc

Provide integrated, patient-centered health services designed to meet the needs of all patients, regardless of ability to pay; help the healthcare industry better serve patients & community by promoting public health; supporting…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Silver Dollar City Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr12%5%5–10yr17%16%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr12%32%35–55yr24%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr12%2%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr14%32%20–35yr12%33%35–55yr24%18%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/49
the rest of the field
13%
488/3,638

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 49 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BURRELL INC — $81,034 · OtherBURRELL INCLegal Services of Southern Missouri — $59,454 · OtherLegal Services of Southern MissouriTHE ARC OF THE OZARKS FOUNDATION INC — $45,225 · OtherTHE ARC OF THE OZARKS FOUNDATION INCCHAMPIONS COMMITTED TO KIDS INC — $42,111 · OtherCHAMPIONS COMMITTED TO KIDS INCBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKS — $41,360 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $39,163 · OtherCHRISTIAN COUNTY FAMILY CRISIS CENTER DBA FREEDOMS REST — $33,088 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC — $32,800 · OtherSpringfield Public Schools — $28,196 · OtherMISSOURI JUNIOR GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $30,675 · OtherMUSIC THERAPY OF THE OZARKS — $49,098 · OtherMUSIC THERAPY OF THE OZARKS+18 more — $297,320 · Other+18 moreCHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC — $107,571 · HealthCHILDRENS SMILE CENTER…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $93,013 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OZARKS INC — $83,474 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE …DOWN SYNDROME GROUP OF THE OZARKS — $36,470 · HealthDOWN SYNDROME GROUP OF…HOPE FOUNDATION — $23,300 · HealthHOPE FOUNDATIONFORDLAND CLINIC INC — $19,093 · Health+1 more — $6,925 · HealthSILVER DOLLAR CITY FOUNDATION INC — $109,615 · PhilanthropySILVER DOLLAR C…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUND…ST LOUIS CARDINALS COMMUNITY FUND — $68,860 · PhilanthropyST LOUIS CARDIN…CHANCES OF STONE COUNTY INC — $63,131 · Human ServicesCHANCES OF …White River Valley Electric Trust INC — $56,635 · Human ServicesWhite River…WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH — $35,290 · Human ServicesWHETSTONE B…DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION — $16,164 · Human ServicesDOGWOOD RAN…FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC — $12,904 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT…FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $116,991 · Youth DevelopmentHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $52,868 · Housing & ShelterCHAMPION ATHLETES OF THE OZARKS — $37,386 · Housing & ShelterA SPORTING CHANCE — $53,166 · Recreation & SportsHEART OF THE OZARKS JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION — $35,735 · Recreation & Sports
Other$779,524Health$369,846Philanthropy$253,475Human Services$184,124Youth Development$116,991Housing & Shelter$90,254Recreation & Sports$88,901

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES — $116,991 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSILVER DOLLAR CITY FOUNDATION INC — $109,615 over 2y, 14% of budgetCHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC — $107,571 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $93,013 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE OZARKS INC — $83,474 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetBURRELL INC — $81,034 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS CARDINALS COMMUNITY FUND — $68,860 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetLegal Services of Southern Missouri — $59,454 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWhite River Valley Electric Trust INC — $56,635 over 2y, 15% of budgetA SPORTING CHANCE — $53,166 over 2y, 18% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $52,868 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE OZARKS FOUNDATION INC — $45,225 over 2y, 83% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKS — $41,360 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC — $39,163 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHAMPION ATHLETES OF THE OZARKS — $37,386 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetHEART OF THE OZARKS JUNIOR GOLF FOUNDATION — $35,735 over 2y, 24% of budgetWHETSTONE BOYS RANCH — $35,290 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN COUNTY FAMILY CRISIS CENTER DBA FREEDOMS REST — $33,088 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MISSOURI INC — $32,800 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI JUNIOR GOLF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION — $30,675 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHOPE FOUNDATION — $23,300 over 2y, 15% of budgetPROJECT HOPE INC — $23,177 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKIWANIS INTERNATIONAL OZARK EM — $22,350 over 2y, 33% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE FOUNDATION — $22,044 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS — $22,044 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $21,410 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE — $20,451 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI of Southwest Missouri Inc — $20,412 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFORDLAND CLINIC INC — $19,093 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $15,490 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $15,437 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLANDANS LEGOCY — $13,999 over 2y, 14% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC — $12,904 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI — $11,575 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDynamic Strides Therapy Inc — $6,925 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $6,763 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUMMIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI — $6,551 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $5,520 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Missouri Sports Hall …Community Foundation …The Charlie & Mary Be…Rick and Marsha Floyd…Robert M - Bobby - Al…Arvest FoundationStanley & Elaine Ball…Musgrave FoundationUnited Way of the Oza…Cook Family FoundationLarry P O'Reilly and …Timken Foundation of …
Missouri Sports Hall of FameMO68.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Missouri Sports Hall of Fame · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Rick and Marsha Floyd Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Arvest Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Musgrave Foundation · United Way of the Ozarks Inc · Cook Family Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Timken Foundation of Canton

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 Q Hammons Foundation Inc 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.

2024
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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to John Q Hammons Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to John Q Hammons Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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