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Missouri Network of Child Advocacy Centers

Missouri kidsfirst's mision is to empower adults to protect children from abuse.

$504k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$527k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 64% of MISSOURI NETWORK AGAINST CHILD ABUSE’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $458k
  • $250k+1 grant · $527k
$100,150
Median grant
3
States reached
$849k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Department of Health and Senior Services$526,502
National Children's Alliance$201,000
Missouri Foundation for Health$100,150
Children's Justice Act Task Force$86,505
Children's Trust Fund$70,695
Midwest Regional CAC$14,321
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 (FY17–20, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SYNERGY SERVICES: $14k → 8%KIDS HARBOR: $28k → 13%SOUTHEAST MO NETWORK: $16k → 14%SYNERGY SERVICES: $8k → 8%KIDS HARBOR: $14k → 13%SOUTHEAST MO NETWORK: $9k → 14%Kids Harbor: $13k → 13%SOUTHEAST MO NETWORK: $5k → 14%KIDS HARBOR: $10k → 13%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.6M · 18 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2022, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

$2.6M
$420k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+23%

Still filing today

89%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Crime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesEducationOther

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

  • NC
    NATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $408k · revenue +34%
  • TM
    The Missouri Foundation for Health
    3× · 2020–2022 · $220k · revenue +265%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SOUTHWEST
    4× · 2017–2020 · $131k · revenue +93%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Children's Mercy Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $174k · revenue +43%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $124k · revenue +16%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue +18%

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
Vermilion County Child Advocacy Center

Perform forensic interviews on minor children in response to calls from either the Department of Children and Family Services or law enforcement, regarding potential abuse of the child. The Center works as an advocate for the child with…

Crime & Legal
2
Childrens Advocacy Centers of Mississippi

The center supports and advocates on behalf of children's advocacy centers (cac) and multidisciplinary teams (mdt) statewide. cac's are facility based programs, which utilize an mdt approach (including child protective services, law…

Human Services
3
The Childrens House

To reduce trauma to children who have experienced abuse as well as their families by providing a safe and supportive environment through a collaboration of community agencies.

4
Children's Center

Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.

5
Memphis Child Advocacy Center

The mission is to serve children who are victims of sexual and severe physical abuse through prevention, education, and intervention.

Crime & Legal
6
Childrens Advocacy Center of Smith County

The children's advocacy center of smith county's mission is to protect and restore the lives of abused children through team investigations, healing services, community outreach and strategic partnerships.

Crime & Legal
7
Childrens Advocacy Center of East Central Illinois

To assist children who have been victims of abuse

Crime & Legal
8
Children's Advocacy Center of Comal Coun

To provide a neutral, child-friendly agency community that facilitates a multidisciplinary approach to the prevention, detection, investigation, and treatment of child abuse.

Crime & Legal
9
The Children's Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass Inc

The center coordinates the investigation and treatment of the most serious cases of child abuse in the bluegrass region. all services are provided in a nurturing, friendly and safe environment at no cost to a child's family.

Human Services
10
Childrens Center

The mission of childrens center is to support and medically assess children who are suspected victims of abuse or neglect.

Crime & Legal
11
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center

The chicago children's advocacy center unites public, private, and community partners to ensure the safety, health, and well-being of abused children.

Crime & Legal
12
Children's Advocacy Center of the Coastal Bend

Nueces county childrens advocacy center is organized to provide a safe environment for sexual and physical child abuse investigations. there is a comprehensive program in order to make investigations and interviews less traumatic.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc and the most unlike its peers is Children's Health Care. 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

23 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. 23 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT — $1,305,879 · OtherMISSOURI DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION & WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENTNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC — $407,573 · OtherNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INCMISSOURI CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND — $126,733 · OtherMISSOURI CHILDREN'S TRUST FUNDCOMMUNITY TREATMENT INC — $69,501 · Other+3 more — $51,182 · OtherThe Missouri Foundation for Health — $220,467 · HealthThe Missouri Fou…The Children's Mercy Hospital — $174,086 · HealthThe Children's M…CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE — $30,960 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALT…NORTHWEST MISSOURI CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER — $16,000 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SOUTHWEST — $130,909 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILDREN…THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC — $73,813 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILD AD…CHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $30,598 · Crime & LegalCHILD PROTEC…NORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $25,552 · Crime & LegalNORTH CENTRA…STONE COUNTY ASSISTANCE TEAM — $25,118 · Crime & LegalSTONE COUNTY…CHILD SAFE OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC — $21,610 · Crime & LegalCHILD SAFE O…THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $17,519 · Crime & Legal+2 more — $14,088 · Crime & LegalWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $123,624 · EducationST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $82,825 · EducationKIDS HARBOR INC — $65,399 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST MISSOURI NETWORK AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $30,614 · Human ServicesSYNERGY SERVICES INC — $21,573 · Human Services
Other$1,960,868Health$441,513Crime & Legal$339,207Education$206,449Human Services$117,586

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE INC — $407,573 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Missouri Foundation for Health — $220,467 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital — $174,086 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF SOUTHWEST — $130,909 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetMISSOURI CHILDREN'S TRUST FUND — $126,733 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $123,624 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY — $82,825 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER OF NORTHEAST MISSOURI INC — $73,813 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY TREATMENT INC — $69,501 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS HARBOR INC — $65,399 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE — $30,960 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEAST MISSOURI NETWORK AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE — $30,614 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCHILD PROTECTION CENTER INC — $30,598 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL MISSOURI CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER — $25,552 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetSTONE COUNTY ASSISTANCE TEAM — $25,118 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT EMERGENCY SHELTER INC — $24,053 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHILD SAFE OF CENTRAL MISSOURI INC — $21,610 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSYNERGY SERVICES INC — $21,573 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRIPLEY COUNTY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER — $18,129 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $17,519 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetZERO ABUSE PROJECT — $7,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMinnesota Chapter of the National Childrens Alliance — $6,338 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

National Children's Alliance IncDC32.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Children's Alliance Inc · Missouri Children's Trust Fund · Sexually Abused Children's Relief Endeavor (Sacred) · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Network of Child Advocacy Centers 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%1%3%6%10%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
    13report 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, 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.

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    How do I get to Missouri Network of Child Advocacy Centers?

    Find your warmest path to Missouri Network of Child Advocacy Centers 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 25 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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