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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY | $41,112 |
| MISSOURI BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $38,112 |
| LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY | $34,556 |
| WESTMINSTER COLLEGE | $28,020 |
| WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY | $26,687 |
| SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY | $25,981 |
| PARK UNIVERSITY | $25,487 |
| WILLIAM JEWELL COLLEGE | $25,487 |
| CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $25,336 |
| AVILA UNIVERSITY | $24,931 |
| ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY | $24,806 |
| DRURY UNIVERSITY | $24,336 |
| HANNIBAL-LAGRANGE UNIVERSITY | $24,112 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $23,556 |
| COTTEY COLLEGE | $23,556 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 81% of your 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- MUMaryville University - St Louis8× · 2017–2024 · $274k · revenue +38%
- MBMissouri Baptist University8× · 2017–2024 · $240k · revenue +41%
- LELINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM8× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +17%
Funded once
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
John brown university (jbu) provides christ-centered education that prepares students to honor god and serve others by developing their intellectual, spiritual, and professional lives. (continued on schedule o)jbu serves traditional…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Education - lagrange college challenges the minds and inspires the souls of its students. founded in 1831 and committed to its relationship with the united methodist church and its wesleyan and liberal arts traditions, the college supports…
Through innovative learning opportunities, individual student attention, and an unwavering commitment to inclusive educational access, simpson college cultivates a diverse community of learners to lead lives of meaning and purpose.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Capital university transforms lives by empowering an inclusive community of learners through engaging academic, co-curricular, and professional experiences.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is William Jewell College and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Baptist University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Maryville University - St Louis ↗
- Who funds Missouri Baptist University ↗
- Who funds LINDENWOOD EDUCATION SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds WESTMINSTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds William Jewell College ↗
- Who funds AVILA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ROCKHURST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM WOODS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Hannibal LaGrange University ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COTTEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FONTBONNE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Evangel University ↗
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: 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
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 Colleges Fund Inc 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.