· Public charity
Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri
Through christ's love, we empower chidren and families to overcome challenges today so they can build a better tomorrow.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $2,964,320 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,359,059 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $394,739 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $161k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY-ST JOSEPH INC | $708,061 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $574,442 |
| BRINGING FAMILIES TOGETHER | $421,923 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $366,354 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES | $320,728 |
| FAMILY FORWARD | $294,754 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH | $101,513 |
| WHOLE KIDS OUTREACH | $59,864 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME | $46,764 |
| NEW MADRID COUNTY HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL | $31,027 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS OF THE OZARKS | $22,087 |
| NURSES FOR NEWBORNS | $8,648 |
| ST JOACHIM AND ANN CARE SERVICES | $8,155 |
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 (FY20–24, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +60%
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $3.1M · revenue +98%
- MBMISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME5× · 2020–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +23%
Funded once
- LFLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue +200% · 68% of their budget
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.
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…
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
The organization seeks to provide the highest quality of care in ministry to the diverse needs of louisiana's children and families by offering a variety of holistic services which promote personal growth and wholesome family life. the…
To provide programs and services for children, youth and families throughout missouri.
Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…
A faith-based organization providing compassionaite, quality social services to the vulnerable.
Children's choice is a christian social service agency, which provides specialized community-based services. children's choice serves as a bridge for individuals who are in need of the re-integrative process of family living. intensive,…
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Through christ's love, we empower chidren and families to overcome challenges today so they can build a better tomorrow.
Child abuse/neglect prevention
Centers for children & families, inc. exists to improve quality of life and strengthen the communities we serve through counseling, education and supportive services
Partnering with the community to assist children, youth and families in their unique pursuit of health and wholeness through quality, professional and faithful services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of Missouri and the most unlike its peers is Whole Kids Outreach Inc. 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF KANSAS CITY - ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BAPTIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch ↗
- Who funds WHOLE KIDS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
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: Missouri Children's Trust Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri 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.