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Missouri Association of Area Agencies on Aging

Serve as a statewide entity to focus public and private attention on the changing needs and concerns of Missouri's elder population and establish a network for consumer outreach and assistance for public benefits.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$407k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Human Services$5.5MCommunity Improvement$623kPhilanthropy$252kHealth$130kHousing & Shelter$10kCivil Rights$10k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 12 grants below total $1,570,382 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,758,820 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $188,438 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

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $88k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $779k
  • $250k+2 grants · $704k
$99,095
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Senior Age Area Agency on Aging$407,260
Aging Best$296,431
St Louis Area Agency on Aging$171,361
Mid-America Regional Council$133,152
Care Connection for Aging Services$112,102
Area Agency on Aging Region X$99,095
The Oasis Institute$89,595
Heart of Missouri United Way$89,586
Young at Heart Resources$83,833
Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging$45,027
United Way of the Ozarks$25,540
Aging Ahead$17,400
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 (FY21–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Delta Center for Independent Living: $10k → 5%Disability Resource Association Inc: $10k → 9%Independent Living Resource Center Inc: $10k → 10%Care Connection for Aging Services: $246k → 14%SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence Inc: $10k → 14%Area Agency on Aging Region X: $175k → 15%Senior Age Area Agency on Aging: $417k → 15%Access II Independent Living Center: $10k → 15%Tri-County Center for Independent Living: $10k → 16%Aging Best: $348k → 17%On My Own Inc: $10k → 18%Living Independently for Everyone: $10k → 19%Independent Living Center of Southeast Missouri: $10k → 20%Bootheel Area Independent Living Services: $10k → 26%Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging: $103k → 28%Care Connection for Aging Services: $112k → 14%Aging Matters: $52k → 14%Area Agency on Aging Region X: $99k → 15%Senior Age Area Agency on Aging: $407k → 15%Aging Best: $319k → 17%Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging: $91k → 28%Care Connection for Aging Services: $98k → 14%Aging Matters: $48k → 14%Area Agency on Aging Region X: $43k → 15%Senior Age Area Agency on Aging: $351k → 15%Aging Best: $296k → 17%Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging: $45k → 28%Care Connection for Aging Services: $97k → 14%Aging Matters: $40k → 14%Senior Age Area Agency on Aging: $217k → 15%Aging Best: $119k → 17%Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging: $34k → 28%Care Connection for Aging Services: $87k → 14%Area Agency on Aging Region X: $10k → 15%Senior Age Area Agency on Aging: $121k → 15%The Oasis Institute: $90k → 11%West-Central Independent Living Solutions: $10k → 14%Northeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging: $8k → 28%The Oasis Institute: $90k → 11%Aging Best: $76k → 17%The Oasis Institute: $38k → 11%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.3M · 13 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
24

Total granted

$6.3M
$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • SA
    SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +25%
  • CM
    CENTRAL MISSOURI AREA AGENCY ON AGING
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +55%
  • DI
    DISTRICT III AREA AGENCY ON AGING
    5× · 2021–2025 · $640k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • OI
    OZARK INDEPENDENT LIVINGgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +150%
  • AI
    ACCESS II - INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • ME
    MIDLAND EMPIRE RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +31%

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
Achieving Independence and Mobility Cil

Independent living services for persons with disabilities.

Human Services
2
Southwest Louisiana Independence Center Inc

Direct care services to elderly and disabled; independent living care services.

Human Services
3
Colorado Springs Independence Center

We work with people with disabilities, their families and the community to create independence so that all may thrive.

Human Services
4
Lane Independent Living Alliance

To empower and develop leadership and independence, lane independent living alliance is a non-residential, consumer controlled organization serving people with physical, mental, cognitive and sensory disabilities.

Human Services
5
Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council Inc

To empower its peers with disabilities to lead and control their own lives.

Human Services
6
The Arkansas Center for Independence

Habilitation and residential services for adults with developmental disabilities

Human Services
7
Resource Center for Independent Living Inc

The organization is committed to working with individuals, families, and communities to promote independent living and individual choice to persons with disabilities.

Human Services
8
Illinois Valley Center for Independent Living

The illinois valley center for indepedent living advocates with compassion for the dignity and rights of people with disabilities and their familieis in our service area. we understand it is our consumer's right to choose what is best for…

Human Services
9
Alliance of Disability Advocates

To serve all north carolinians with significant disabilities by ensuring they can live independently in a barrier-free community of their choice through consumer-controlled, self-directed services.

Religion
10
Center for Independence Inc

The Center for Independence promotes community solutions and empowers individuals with disabilities to live independently.

Human Services
11
Center for Independent Living

The mission of cilscpa is to empower people with disabilities to lead independent lives in their communities.

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12
Semo Alliance for Disability Independence Inc

Assistance of persons with disabilities

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heartland Independent Living Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Missouri Centers for Independent Living. 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 30 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%0%10–20yr15%61%20–35yr14%33%35–55yr23%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr16%0%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr14%72%35–55yr23%4%55yr+

The field is 19% 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
13%
3,021/22,655

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

35 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. 35 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
29/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $1,513,785 · Human ServicesSENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGINGCENTRAL MISSOURI AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $1,158,273 · Human ServicesCENTRAL MISSOURI AREA AGENCY ON AGINGDISTRICT III AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $639,983 · Human ServicesDISTRICT III AREA AGENCY ON AGINGAREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X — $326,690 · Human ServicesAREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION XNORTHEAST MISSOURI AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $280,205 · Human ServicesNORTHEAST MISSOURI AREA AGENCY ON AGINGTHE OASIS INSTITUTE — $216,778 · Human Services+13 more — $260,693 · Human Services+13 moreCITY OF ST LOUIS — $569,725 · OtherCITY OF ST LOUISYOUNG AT HEART RESOURCES — $306,657 · OtherYOUNG AT HEART RESOURCESAging Ahead — $301,124 · OtherAging AheadHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC — $201,006 · OtherHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED…+7 more — $70,000 · OtherMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION — $623,040 · Community ImprovementMID-AMERIC…UNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC — $50,549 · PhilanthropyOZARK INDEPENDENT LIVING — $10,000 · HealthINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO — $10,000 · HealthRURAL ADVOCATES FOR INDEP LIVING IN — $10,000 · Civil RightsHEARTLAND INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$4,396,407Other$1,448,512Community Improvement$623,040Philanthropy$50,549Health$20,000Civil Rights$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $1,513,785 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $1,158,273 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetDISTRICT III AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $639,983 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMID-AMERICA REGIONAL COUNCIL COMMUNITY SERVICES CORPORATION — $623,040 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetAREA AGENCY ON AGING REGION X — $326,690 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetYOUNG AT HEART RESOURCES — $306,657 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHEAST MISSOURI AREA AGENCY ON AGING — $280,205 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTHE OASIS INSTITUTE — $216,778 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHEART OF MISSOURI UNITED WAY INC — $201,006 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC — $140,693 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE OZARKS INC — $50,549 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOZARK INDEPENDENT LIVING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACCESS II - INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIDLAND EMPIRE RESOURCES FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING INC (MERIL) — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMISSOURI STATEWIDE INDEPENDENT LIVING COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetON MY OWN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISABLED CITIZENS ALLIANCE FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSOURI CENTERS FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $10,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetSEMO ALLIANCE FOR DISABILITY INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBOOTHEEL AREA INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-COUNTY CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT L — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRURAL ADVOCATES FOR INDEP LIVING IN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDISABILITY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTLAND INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDelta Center for Independent Living — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Whole Person Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST INDEPENDENT LIVING SERVICES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPARAQUAD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEST-CENTRAL INDEPENDENT LIVING SOLUTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF S E MO SOUTHEAST MISSOURI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Mfa Oil FoundationChristopher Reeve Fou…Community Foundation …United Way of Greater…Meals on Wheels Ameri…Veterans United Found…Commerce Bancshares F…Ozarks Food Harvest I…National Council on A…St Louis Community Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mfa Oil FoundationMO17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mfa Oil Foundation · Christopher Reeve Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Meals on Wheels America · Veterans United Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Ozarks Food Harvest Inc · National Council on Aging Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Amazonsmile 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 Missouri Association of Area Agencies on Aging 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    21report 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

    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.

    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 37 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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