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Miriam a Edmonston Charitable 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.

$472k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Human Services$664kEducation$487kReligion$401kArts & Culture$356kRecreation & Sports$300kHealth$214kEmployment$180kFood & Nutrition$165kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $62k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $410k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HANDI SHOP$48,550
PRESSER ARTS CENTER$40,000
AUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION$35,000
AUDRAIN COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION$26,850
Individual grant recipient$25,000
CHILDREN'S THERAPY & EARLY EDUCATION SCHOOL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$23,700
MEXICO SENIOR CENTER$21,500
LAURA MILLER GEORGE HELP CENTER$20,700
MEXICO PARK FOUNDATION$20,000
AUDRAIN COUNTY VETERANS MEMORIAL$20,000
AUDRAIN HUMANE SOCIETY$20,000
MEXICO RECREATION CORP$15,000
MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA$15,000
WORKFORCE RESOURCE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$14,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $265k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%SHOES FROM THE HEART: $3k → 14%SHOES FROM THE HEART: $3k → 14%SHOES FROM THE HEART: $3k → 14%SHOES FROM THE HEART: $3k → 14%SHOES FROM THE HEART: $3k → 14%SHOES FROM THE HEART: $3k → 14%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 18%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $35k → 18%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $32k → 18%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 18%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $25k → 18%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 18%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 18%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $15k → 18%MEXICO AREA FAMILY YMCA: $10k → 18%UPLIFT MID-MO: $9k → 18%UPLIFT MID-MO: $8k → 18%AUDRAIN COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES: $6k → 18%UP LIFT MID MO: $5k → 18%BRIGHT FUTURES: $5k → 18%AUDRAIN COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES: $2k → 18%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2M · 72 repeat orgs$455k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
59

Total granted

$3.2M
$374k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-23%

Still filing today

25%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther

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

  • MA
    Mexico Area Family YMCA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $213k · revenue +82%
  • MR
    MEXICO RECREATION CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue ×14 · 40% of their budget
  • HI
    Handi-Shop Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $166k · revenue +388%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $35k
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF AUDRAIN COUNTY
    one grant, 2017 · $34k
  • SL
    ST LUKES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $20k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Mexico Area United Way
2
Gibson Center for Behavioral Change

The Gibson Center for Behavorial Change is committed to providing comprehensive services which promote new behaviors for a healthy lifestyle.

Health
3
Carthage Crisis Center Inc

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

Health
4
Missouri Centers for Independent Living
5
Mid Missouri Malamute Rescue
Animals
6
Greyhound Companions of Missouri

Rescue retired greyhounds and place in homes

7
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
8
Iron County Sheltered Workshop Inc

To provide job training and work opportunity for disabled individuals in iron county, missouri.

Employment
9
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
10
Mid-Ozark Casa Program

The program provides organization structure, leadership and training for community volunteers who serve as court appointed special advocates(casa) for agbused and neglected children in south central missouri.

Community Improvement
11
Trimble House Inc of Louisiana Mo
12
West Plains Regional Animal Shelter

To Provide a safe place for animals and unite them with permanent homes

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mexico Area Family Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Williams Family Support Center Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 39. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number11%0%<5yr9%14%5–10yr12%20%10–20yr14%14%20–35yr19%29%35–55yr35%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value11%0%<5yr9%9%5–10yr12%16%10–20yr14%3%20–35yr19%61%35–55yr35%10%55yr+

The field is 11% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/37
the rest of the field
10%
19/199

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.

04the grantee network

25 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 141 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PRESSER HALL PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $180,000 · OtherPRESSER HALL PERFORMING ARTS CENTERHandi-Shop Inc — $166,135 · OtherHandi-Shop IncTHE FOOD BANK — $152,500 · OtherTHE FOOD BANKTHE HELP CENTER INC — $127,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $115,000 · OtherLAURA MILLER GEORGE HELP CENTER — $110,200 · OtherAUDRAIN COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION — $107,020 · OtherMEXICO PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $105,143 · OtherCHILDREN'S THERAPY & EARLY EDUCATION SCHOOL INC — $104,625 · OtherANOINTED LIFE SAVING MINISTRIES — $102,500 · Other+118 more — $1,466,340 · Other+118 moreMEXICO RECREATION CORPORATION — $202,500 · Recreation & SportsMEXICO RE…MEXICO PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $95,060 · Recreation & SportsMEXICO PA…Mexico Area Family YMCA INC — $212,591 · Human ServicesUPLIFT MID-MO — $21,500 · Human ServicesSHOES FROM THE HEART — $18,000 · Human Services+2 more — $12,745 · Human ServicesPRESSER ARTS CENTER — $152,250 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $3,000 · Arts & CultureAUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION — $84,200 · Housing & ShelterMISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY — $72,933 · EducationCOLUMBIA COLLEGE — $5,000 · EducationAudrain Humane Society — $53,500 · Animals
Other$2,736,713Recreation & Sports$297,560Human Services$264,836Arts & Culture$155,250Housing & Shelter$84,200Education$77,933Animals$53,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMexico Area Family YMCA INC — $212,591 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetMEXICO RECREATION CORPORATION — $202,500 over 9y, 40% of budgetHandi-Shop Inc — $166,135 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetPRESSER ARTS CENTER — $152,250 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetTHE HELP CENTER INC — $127,250 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S THERAPY & EARLY EDUCATION SCHOOL INC — $104,625 over 5y, 13% of budgetMEXICO PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $95,060 over 5y, 99% of budgetAUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION — $84,200 over 6y, 18% of budgetMISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY — $72,933 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMEXICO SENIOR CENTER INC — $69,600 over 8y, 27% of budgetAudrain Humane Society — $53,500 over 4y, 19% of budgetWILLIAMS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC — $35,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetUPLIFT MID-MO — $21,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetMexico Area Chamber of Commerce — $21,500 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetAudrain County Historical Society — $21,130 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetSHOES FROM THE HEART — $18,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetRoom at the Inn — $13,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetAUDRAIN DEVELOPMENT INC — $12,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetAUDRAIN COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION — $7,745 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOLUMBIA COLLEGE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTURNING POINT RECOVERY CENTERS — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEXICO VETERANS HOME ASSISTANCE LEAGUE — $1,900 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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 Mexico Area Family YMCA INC
  • Who funds MEXICO RECREATION CORPORATION
  • Who funds Handi-Shop Inc
  • Who funds PRESSER ARTS CENTER
  • Who funds THE HELP CENTER INC
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S THERAPY & EARLY EDUCATION SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds MEXICO PARKS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds AUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION
  • Who funds MISSOURI MILITARY ACADEMY
  • Who funds MEXICO SENIOR CENTER INC
  • Who funds Audrain Humane Society
  • Who funds WILLIAMS FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC
  • Who funds UPLIFT MID-MO
  • Who funds Mexico Area Chamber of Commerce
  • Who funds Audrain County Historical Society

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.

Griffin Family Foundation IncMO53.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Allen P and Josephine B Green · W Basil & Nina Leach Charitable Trust · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Consolidated Cares · The Stribling Foundation Inc · Veterans United Foundation · Nina and Basil Leach Charitable Trust · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Mfa Oil Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · 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 Miriam a Edmonston Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Miriam a Edmonston Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Miriam a Edmonston Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 141 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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