· Private foundation
Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHWEST MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $31,950 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - COLUMBIA | $13,975 |
| NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI COLLEGE | $13,625 |
| MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY | $11,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - KANSAS CITY | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL MISSOURI | $4,825 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $3,100 |
| TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| SOUTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| STATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE | $2,260 |
| MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,950 |
| UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS | $1,500 |
| Iowa State University | $1,500 |
| Central Methodist University | $1,500 |
| Summit Salon Academy Kansas City | $750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- AMAVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +68%
- SBSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $4k · revenue +20%
- DUDrury University2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- STSTATE TECHNICAL COLLEGE OF MISSOURIone grant, 2022 · $7k
- HLHannibal LaGrange Universityone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -18%
- MAMOBERLY AREA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
As a catholic university, mount st. mary's graduates ethical leaders who are inspired by a passion for learning and lead lives of significance in service to god and others.
Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…
The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
As an institution of higher education committed to the reformed christian perspective, dordt university equips students, alumni, and the broader community to work effectively toward christ-centered renewal in all aspects of contemporary…
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Union college is a seventh-day adventist community of higher education, inspired by jesus christ, and dedicated to empowering students to learn, serve, and lead.
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Graceland University and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Baptist University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 34 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 GRACELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AVE MARIA UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Hannibal LaGrange University ↗
- Who funds Grand Canyon University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT MARY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
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: Tulsa Community Foundation · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation · Missouri Colleges Fund Inc · Bour Memorial Scholarship Fund American National Bank of Texas · Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · Jack J Isgur Foundation · William M & Ann K Grace Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Greater Kansas City Community 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 Lester R Birbeck Charitable Trust 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.
- Ave Maria University Inc — 0% of income from government
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.