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Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities
As the sisters of mercy before us, we bring to life the healing ministry of jesus through our compassionate care and exceptional service.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $367,433 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $472,474 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,041 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $239k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOPLIN AREA CHAMBER COMMERCE | $72,200 |
| COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SW MO | $50,000 |
| JOPLIN AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $49,500 |
| MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| JOPLIN HIGH SCHOOL R8 | $31,100 |
| CARTHAGE R9 SCHOOL DISTRICT | $25,000 |
| CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $12,500 |
| MO SOUTHERN STATE UNIV | $12,433 |
| WATERED GARDENS MINISTRIES | $11,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $11,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $10,700 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| LAFAYETTE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| JASPER COUNTY CASA | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS CENTER OF SW MO | $6,500 |
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 (FY25–25, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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 +22% since the first grant, against -25% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- CCCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI7× · 2019–2025 · $401k · revenue +89%
- JCJASPER COUNTY CASA3× · 2021–2025 · $70k · revenue +22%
- FSFAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC4× · 2022–2025 · $38k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- KCKansas City Universitygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +38%
- SRSENECA R-7 SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -25% · 56% of their budget
- SMSOUTHWEST MISSOURI COMMUNITY ALLIANone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -40%
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.
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…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
Center for patient safety seeks to reduce preventable patient harm by improving patient safety culture, working in collaboration with providers, associations and government entities.
To be a leader in quality health care to all people of central and southern illinois in support of the mission of the southern illinois university school of medicine.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Mid-america christian university prepares students through a wesleyan perspective to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve local and global problems for the glory of god through jesus christ and the good of society.
Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.
To provide quality, affordable, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health care to anyone regardless of ability to pay.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
Continue to operate a self-sustaining, state of the art dental clinic that serves all patients including those who are insured, under insured, uninsured or medicade participants for residents of northwest kansas and surrounding areas.
To work for the advancement of the business community, to enhance the economic, civic and cultural environment, and to improve the quality of life in jefferson parish, louisiana.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Self Help Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Jasper and Newton Counties Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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 COMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SENECA R-7 SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST MISSOURI COMMUNITY ALLIAN ↗
- Who funds Project Lead the Way Inc ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
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 · Arvest Foundation · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Michael a Mary Louise & Christine L Glauber Foundation · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · Sandy Fam Community Char Found Xxx-Xx-Xxxx · Mercy Hospital Joplin · The Farber Foundation · The Sunderland 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 Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities 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.
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