· Private foundation
Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $193k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $209k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCERNED CHRISTIANS FOR THE COMMUNITY | $87,500 |
| CARROLL COUNTY AREA YMCA | $71,000 |
| CHILLICOTHE MISSION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,000 |
| GRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA | $31,020 |
| MY HOMETOWN - CARROLLTON | $30,000 |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY EDUCATIONAL AND HOUSING COUNCIL | $25,148 |
| CHILLICOTHE R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT | $19,687 |
| DAWN FIRE FIGHTERS ASSOCIATION | $13,750 |
| NORTH MISSOURI CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES | $11,000 |
| BIRTHRIGHT OF THE GREEN HILLS AREA | $10,500 |
| HOPE HAVEN INDUSTRIES | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $6,000 |
| LUDLOW LIONS CLUB FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| TAKING SHAPE | $5,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
45 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- GRGRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $528k · revenue +105%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +120%
- NMNORTH MISSOURI CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC3× · 2019–2025 · $39k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- COCITY OF CHILLICOTHE (REAL ESTATE)one grant, 2021 · $525k
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2018 · $9k
- KPKELLY POLING ARTS DISTRICTone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
To promote business activity for members and the city of smithville mo.
Promote tourism and economic development for clinton, missouri
To educate the public about agriculture
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
Preservation of county history and the county museum.
To provide financial support to the carthage public library, a municipally owned library in carthage, missouri.
The purpose of the organization is to preserve, educate and provide information and resources of the history of st. clair county, illinois.
To preserve the history of butler, mo and bates county, mo and educate the public on the history of the area.
Non-profit museum
To protect and preserve natural and scenic land in chippewa county and the surrounding area.
Providing social and recreational activities for members
Collection and preservation of historical documents pertaining to saint charles county, missouri and making them available to the general public
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri 4-H Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grand River Historial Society Museum. 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 20 years old; the field is 30. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
36 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. 36 of the 77 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 GRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE FFA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE AREA CHRISTIAN BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds HOME OF SLICED BREAD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEDRICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds NORTH MISSOURI CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL CORNER ART GUILD AND GALLERY ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER ENTERTAINMENT ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY EDUCATIONAL AND HOUSING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAVING KIDSIGHT ↗
- Who funds TAKING SHAPE INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR THE COMMUNIT ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KELLY POLING ARTS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
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: Roger a Browning Foundation Inc · Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation · Hal F Juckette Family Foundation · Carl C & Ardath Hudnall Foundation · Livingston County Community Foundation · Minnie B Hedrick Trust · Fm & Gladys McCall Foundation · James Allbritain Lawson Charitable Trust · Mfa Oil Foundation · Jerry Litton Family Memorial Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation 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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