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Missouri Colleges Fund Inc

The Mission of the Missouri Colleges Fund is to acquire resources to help educate students in our member independent four year liberal-arts colleges and universities.

$440k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2024
16
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,487
Largest grant, FY2024
$41,112
Organizations funded a year
16 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Missouri Colleges Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving16$440k0%
FY202316$355k0%
FY202216$366k0%
FY202116$332k0%
FY202018$358k0%
FY201918$406k0%
FY201818$444k0%
FY201718$508kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$3.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maryville University - St Louis$273,75980%
Missouri Baptist University$239,94880%
Lindenwood Education System$222,71580%
Westminster College$203,67780%
William Jewell College$189,57680%
Avila University$188,62680%
Park University$187,70980%
Rockhurst University$186,79280%
Southwest Baptist University$183,64880%
William Woods University$180,54480%
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All grantees of Missouri Colleges Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Maryville University - St Louis$273,75980%
Missouri Baptist University$239,94880%
Lindenwood Education System$222,71580%
Westminster College$203,67780%
William Jewell College$189,57680%
Avila University$188,62680%
Park University$187,70980%
Rockhurst University$186,79280%
Southwest Baptist University$183,64880%
William Woods University$180,54480%
Central Methodist University$176,75680%
Hannibal LaGrange University$168,46580%
Drury University$167,41880%
Columbia College$162,34180%
Culver-Stockton College$158,13280%
Cottey College$152,13280%
Fontbonne University$93,40640%
Evangel University$73,03040%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Missouri Colleges Fund Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $273,759 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMissouri Baptist University: $239,948 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLindenwood Education System: $222,715 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWestminster College: $203,677 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Jewell College: $189,576 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAvila University: $188,626 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPark University: $187,709 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetRockhurst University: $186,792 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthwest Baptist University: $183,648 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWilliam Woods University: $180,544 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Methodist University: $176,756 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHannibal LaGrange University: $168,465 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetDrury University: $167,418 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetColumbia College: $162,341 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCulver-Stockton College: $158,132 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCottey College: $152,132 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFontbonne University: $93,406 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEvangel University: $73,030 over 4y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Griffin Family Founda…Tulsa Community Found…Jack J Isgur Foundati…Virginia Thomas Chari…T Michal Flottman Sch…The Gr & Mf Nichols F…William Edgar Charita…Folds of Honor Founda…Porter Edwin M Educat…Bour Memorial Scholar…Hardin Memorial Schol…John R Lucash Scholar…
Griffin Family Foundation IncMO24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Griffin Family Foundation Inc · Tulsa Community Foundation · Jack J Isgur Foundation · Virginia Thomas Charitable Trust · T Michal Flottman Scholarship Trust · The Gr & Mf Nichols Foundation · William Edgar Charitable Foundation · Folds of Honor Foundation · Porter Edwin M Educational Fund · Bour Memorial Scholarship Fund American National Bank of Texas · Hardin Memorial Scholarship Foundation · John R Lucash Scholarship Trust

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.

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About Missouri Colleges Fund Inc

How much does Missouri Colleges Fund Inc give?
Missouri Colleges Fund Inc reported 16 grants totaling $439,631 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Missouri Colleges Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Missouri Colleges Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Maryville University - St Louis ($274k), Missouri Baptist University ($240k), Lindenwood Education System ($223k).
Does Missouri Colleges Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Missouri Colleges Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Griffin Family Foundation Inc, Tulsa Community Foundation, Jack J Isgur Foundation.
Where is Missouri Colleges Fund Inc based?
Missouri Colleges Fund Inc is based in MO.

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 18 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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