· Private foundation
Mfa Oil Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k147 grants · $251k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| MISSOURI STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISSOURI STATE FAIR FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| DADEVILLE RURAL FIRE PORTECTION DIS | $2,100 |
| BUNKER RESIDENTIAL HOME | $2,000 |
| DBLO ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| NORTH CALLAWAY PTO | $2,000 |
| PUTNAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC | $2,000 |
| ATLANTA C-3 SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| VERNON COUNTY AMBULANCE DISTRICT | $2,000 |
| NORTHEAST NODAWAY R-V SCHOOL DISTRI | $2,000 |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY FAIR INC | $2,000 |
| SHERIDAN COMMUNITY BETTERMENT CLUB | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 85% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 127 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, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k 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
- MFMISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +6%
- MFMISSOURI FARMERS CARE3× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +56%
- MSMISSOURI STATE FAIR FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $65k · revenue +406%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - CAFNRone grant, 2017 · $31k
- WGWALNUT GROVE R-5 SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- SPST PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH - DISASTone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
Provide support services to developmentally disabled individuals of perry county,missouri through areas of community employment, job preparation, day programs, transportation and personal assistance.
To provide productive employment opportunities to educable and trainable handicapped individuals
Provide nutrition and support to senior citizens of crocker, mo and the surrounding area
Provide services and meals to the elderly and disabled
To provide employement opportunities to mentally or physically disabled individuals.
Operation of a sheltered workshop providing employment for handicapped individuals.
Provide housing for elderly
To provide home respite, housekeeping and other assistance to seniors age 60 and older that are residents of Christian County, Missouri
Provide services & meals to the elderly.
Provide food service and other social services to senior citizens
Assisting the disabled in a seven county area in the state of missouri
The carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Farmers Care and the most unlike its peers is The Michael D and Margaret Ann Latta Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
223 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. 223 of the 751 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI FARMERS CARE ↗
- Who funds CAFNR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO ↗
- Who funds PUTNAM COUNTY FAIR ↗
- Who funds VERNON COUNTY YOUTH FAIR ↗
- Who funds Coyote Hill Foster Care Ministries ↗
- Who funds THOMPSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM & NEURODEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SOY INNOVATION ↗
- Who funds WARREN COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
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: Allen P and Josephine B Green · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Stafford Family Charitable Trust · Boone Electric Community Trust · The Sunderland Foundation · Community Foundation of Central Mo · Boone County Community Trust · Ozarks Food Harvest Inc · Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation · Je and le Mabee Foundation 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 Mfa Oil 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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