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Mfa Oil Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$341k
Granted FY2025still arriving
150
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$628kEducation$518kPublic Safety & Disaster$214kRecreation & Sports$198kHuman Services$181kEnvironment$105kArts & Culture$89kHealth$87kOther$0
02FY2025 · 150 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k147 grants · $251k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CROCKER RURAL FIRE PROTECTION DIST$2,000
EMINENCE R-I SCHOOL (AG PROGRAM)$2,000
PUTNAM COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$2,000
SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
DADE COUNTY ARTCONNECT$2,000
DBLO ASSOCIATION$2,000
PAOLI POLICE DEPARTMENT$2,000
CLEARWATER R-1 SCHOOL FOUNDATION$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
ADAIR COUNTY R-1 PTO$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%DBLO ASSOCIATION: $2k → 16%RAINBOW ABILITIES CENTER: $2k → 9%FOSTERADOPT CONNECT: $2k → 15%SCHUYLER COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $2k → 15%ALL ABOARD LEARNING CENTER: $2k → 15%ACCESS II INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $3k → 15%DOUGLAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING (AV: $2k → 19%REYNOLDS COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP: $2k → 21%WARREN COUNTY PATHFINDERS: $2k → 8%ADVOCATES FOR COMMUNITY CHOICE: $2k → 9%AREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $2k → 15%GENTRY COUNTY SENIOR CENTER INC: $2k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $2k → 18%HEARTLAND RESOURCES INC: $2k → 14%OWENSVILLE SENIOR CENTER: $2k → 14%SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $2k → 15%SHELBY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC: $2k → 15%THE ROLLA MISSION: $2k → 16%CHOICES FOR PEOPLE CENTER FOR CITIZ: $2k → 16%OZARKS AREA COMMUNITY ACTION CORP: $1k → 16%ST LUKE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN CENTER: $2k → 11%SHELBY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC: $2k → 15%ST JAMES CARING CENTER: $2k → 16%COYOTE HILL: $2k → 17%WHETSTONE BOYS RANCH: $2k → 19%SHELBY COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 15%CITY OF REFUGE: $2k → 17%ON MY OWN INC: $2k → 18%ST JAMES GOLDEN AGE CENTER: $2k → 16%INDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 10%ST JAMES CARING CENTER: $1k → 16%NODAWAY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SENA: $2k → 17%EVERY CHILD'S HOPE: $1k → 10%CITY OF REFUGE: $1k → 17%SERVE INC: $2k → 11%YMCA OF CALLAWAY COUNTY: $1k → 11%AUDRAIN COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION: $2k → 18%FAITH BRIDGE: $1k → 17%FAITH BRIDGE: $1k → 17%UPLIFT MID-MO: $1k → 18%OATS INC: $2k → 17%OATS INC: $2k → 17%COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HO: $2k → 17%COYOTE HILL: $2k → 17%TOGETHER WE FOSTER: $2k → 16%THE RIGHT PATH RIDING ACADEMY: $2k → 15%DELTA HOUSE OF ARKANSAS: $2k → 17%HOME OF HOPE INC: $2k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IA
IN
CO
MO
KY
KS
AR
TN
OK
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 64 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

64
557

Total granted

$1.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+5%

Still filing today

44%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $218k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MF
    MISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2025 · $250k · revenue +6%
  • MF
    MISSOURI FARMERS CARE
    3× · 2017–2020 · $150k · revenue +56%
  • MS
    MISSOURI STATE FAIR FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $65k · revenue +406%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - CAFNR
    one grant, 2017 · $31k
  • WG
    WALNUT GROVE R-5 SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • MC
    MISSOURI COMMUNITY BETTERMENT EDUCA
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Perry County Services Inc

Provide support services to developmentally disabled individuals of perry county,missouri through areas of community employment, job preparation, day programs, transportation and personal assistance.

Human Services
2
Northeast Missouri Sheltered Workshop

To provide productive employment opportunities to educable and trainable handicapped individuals

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3
Crocker Community Senior Citizens Center

Provide nutrition and support to senior citizens of crocker, mo and the surrounding area

Human Services
4
East Central Kansas Area Agency On Aging

Provide services and meals to the elderly and disabled

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5
Madison County Sheltered Workshop Inc

To provide employement opportunities to mentally or physically disabled individuals.

Human Services
6
Northwest Missouri Industries Inc

Operation of a sheltered workshop providing employment for handicapped individuals.

Employment
7
Missouri Valley Housing Corporation

Provide housing for elderly

Housing & Shelter
8
The Christian County Coalition On Aging Inc

To provide home respite, housekeeping and other assistance to seniors age 60 and older that are residents of Christian County, Missouri

Human Services
9
Harrison County Council On Aging

Provide services & meals to the elderly.

Human Services
10
Senior Citizens of Mountan View Missouri Inc

Provide food service and other social services to senior citizens

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11
Ozark Independent Living

Assisting the disabled in a seven county area in the state of missouri

Health
12
Carthage Crisis Center Inc

The carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri Farmers Care; 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.
04the grantee network

223 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
51
Early backer (in before they grew)
216/223
Grantees still filing
119/223
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: $300,760 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURIMISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherMISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATIONMISSOURI FARMERS CARE: $150,000 · OtherMISSOURI FARMERS CARECAFNR FOUNDATION: $66,666 · Other+163 more: $518,834 · Other+163 moreMISSOURI STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Community ImprovementMERCER COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT CORP: $4,000 · Community ImprovementELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $4,500 · Community ImprovementCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $5,500 · Human ServicesOATS INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesSHELBY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesACCESS II - INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $3,169 · Human ServicesCITY OF REFUGE: $3,000 · Human ServicesST JAMES CARING CENTER: $3,000 · Human ServicesAREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $2,000 · Human ServicesFAITH BRIDGE: $2,000 · Human ServicesINDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesON MY OWN INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesDOUGLAS COUNTY COUNCIL ON AGING: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO: $15,000 · PhilanthropyVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $4,000 · PhilanthropyCHARITON COUNTY COMMUNITYFOUNDATION: $2,100 · PhilanthropyTHOMPSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM & NEURODEVELOPMENT: $5,000 · HealthMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS: $2,500 · HealthCREATIVE PATHWAYS RESIDENTIAL SUPPORTS: $2,200 · HealthTEEN CHALLENGE INTERNATIONAL NEOSHO MO TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE FOUR STATES: $2,000 · HealthTurning Point Advocacy Services: $2,000 · HealthYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HARRISON COUNTY INC: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsCONNECTIONS ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE WYMAN CENTER: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsPOWER OF HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsMontgomery County Fair Society Inc: $2,000 · Recreation & SportsSOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 · Food & NutritionMADISON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ON AGING: $3,000 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Pantry: $2,600 · Food & NutritionStroud Food Pantry Inc: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,286,260Community Improvement$76,500Human Services$32,169Philanthropy$21,100Health$13,700Recreation & Sports$12,000Food & Nutrition$10,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSOURI FARMERS CARE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetCAFNR FOUNDATION: $66,666 over 2y, 44% of budgetMISSOURI STATE FAIR FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetWELCOME HOME INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL MO: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPUTNAM COUNTY FAIR: $6,200 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetVERNON COUNTY YOUTH FAIR: $6,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMPSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM & NEURODEVELOPMENT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SOY INNOVATION: $4,500 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetWARREN COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP INC: $4,409 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOATS INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HARRISON COUNTY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONROE CITY SHELTERED WORKSHOP: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMERCER COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT CORP: $4,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKENNY ROGERS CHILDRENS CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVOLUNTARY ACTION CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE MEMORIAL CAMP MANAGEMENT GROUP: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetWALKER RURAL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $4,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetAUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION: $3,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBURLINGAME FIRE DISTRICT #6: $3,540 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSHELBY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOC INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetACCESS II - INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $3,169 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF REFUGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARROW ROCK LYCEUM THEATRE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADISON COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS COUNCIL ON AGING: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetELMO BETTERMENT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetST JAMES CARING CENTER: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI GIRLS TOWN FOUNDATION INC: $2,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOSBY HELENA FIRE PROTECTION DISTR: $2,600 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CENTER OF EAST CENTRAL KANSAS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHCC Network: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOOR SERVICE CENTER INC: $2,200 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCREATIVE PATHWAYS RESIDENTIAL SUPPORTS: $2,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHARITON COUNTY COMMUNITYFOUNDATION: $2,100 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPULASKI COUNTY SHELTERED WORKSHOP: $2,040 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBIA COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTIONS ACTIVITY CENTER INC: $2,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetHOPE ALLIANCE OF MISSOURI: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH BRIDGE: $2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WYMAN CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEKALB CO SENIOR CITZENS COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWONDERLAND CAMP FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 OATS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HARRISON COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MONROE CITY SHELTERED WORKSHOP ↗
  • Who funds MERCER COUNTY AREA DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Allen P and Josephine…Community Foundation …Veterans United Found…Orscheln Industries F…Stafford Family Chari…Boone Electric Commun…The Sunderland Founda…Community Foundation …Boone County Communit…Ozarks Food Harvest I…Fred V & Dorothy H He…Je and le Mabee Found…
Allen P and Josephine B GreenMO51.2× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mfa Oil Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mfa Oil Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    75report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Mfa Oil Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Mfa Oil Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 751 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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