· Private foundation
Meek Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mercy Health Foundation | $2,000 |
| The Child Advocacy Center | $1,500 |
| Boy Scouts of America | $1,000 |
| LifeHouse Crisis Maternity Home | $1,000 |
| Springfield Symphony Orchestra | $500 |
| Springfield Workshop Foundation | $500 |
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 (FY21–21, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 8 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.
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
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +49%
- TCTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $9k · revenue +46%
- SBSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2020 · $5k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- OCOZARK CHRISTIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $10k
- MSMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +32%
- SCSpringfield Contempory Theatreone grant, 2018 · $500
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.
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
The mission of springfield college is to educate students in spirit, mind and body for leadership in service to others by building on a foundation of the college's humanics philosophy, academic excellence, service, and student success.…
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The siue foundation exists to support the mission, vision, and values of southern illinois university edwardsville. on behalf of the university, the foundation provides fundraising coordination and implementation, serves as the steward for…
The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Southern wesleyan university is a christ-centered, student-focused learning community devoted to transforming lives by challenging students to be dedicated scholars and servant-leaders who impact the world for christ.
The board of control for southern regional education shall be devoted to the task of assisting states, institutions and agencies concerned with higher education in their efforts to advance knowledge and to improve the social and economic…
To provide financial support to missouri southern state university from donations from the public for scholarships, awards to students, departmental support, cultural activities, general college support and faculty development.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Simpson university is a christ-centered learning community committed to developing each student in mind, faith, and character for a life-time of meaningful work and service in a constantly changing world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 20 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 BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Workshop Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Springfield Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds IPOURLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI COLLEGES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD CONTEMPORARY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds HELP GIVE HOPE ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Cook Family Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Springfield Regional Arts Council · The Turner Family Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Meek 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.
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.