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Missouri United Methodist Foundation Inc

The mission of the missouri united methodist foundation is to establish, grow and administer funds, tools and education for planned giving to strengthen and enable united methodist ministry in missouri.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$109k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$5.1MFood & Nutrition$811kEducation$659kHuman Services$196kMembership Benefit$80kInternational$68kYouth Development$45kCivil Rights$31kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $785,213, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,671,216 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $886,003 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $309k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $402k
$12,895
Median grant
5
States reached
$124M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF HANNIBAL$108,567
MO CONFERENCE$90,841
BROADWAYKEYSTONE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$80,000
CASSIDY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$66,742
GALLATIN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$56,340
LIFEWISE STL$33,199
ASHLAND UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$30,000
WESLEY MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$29,214
FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF SEDALIA$27,455
SAINT PAUL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY$24,000
CUBA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH$21,658
KIMBERLING CITY METHODIST CHURCH$21,322
NORTHEAST DISTRICT OFFICE OF THE MO ANNUAL CONFERENCE$20,000
CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY$18,600
UNITED METHODIST HIGHER EDUCATION FUND$15,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CORNERSTONES OF CARE: $8k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Missouri United Methodist Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 69%.

Missouri United Methodist Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.9M · 37 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
43

Total granted

$5.9M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+108%

Still filing today

14%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UM
    UNITED METHODIST HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $320k · revenue +176%
  • KH
    KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL
    6× · 2018–2024 · $91k · revenue +25%
  • CM
    CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • OS
    OHIO STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $499k
  • NU
    NORMANDY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $104k
  • WU
    WELL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field
05the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISSOURI CONFERENCE- PASTORAL & CONGREGATIONAL EXCELLENCE: $1,310,407 · OtherMISSOURI CONFERENCE- PASTORAL & CONGREGATIONAL EXCELLENCEFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $809,997 · OtherFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCASSIDY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $544,303 · OtherCASSIDY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHOHIO STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $499,123 · OtherOHIO STREET UNITED METHODIST CHURCHBROADWAYKEYSTONE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $465,400 · OtherBROADWAYKEYSTONE UNITED METHODIST CHURCHGALLATIN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $366,535 · OtherGALLATIN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH+71 more: $2,505,668 · Other+71 moreUNITED METHODIST HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $319,500 · EducationCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $55,195 · EducationLydia Patterson Institute: $34,000 · EducationKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $91,181 · Youth DevelopmentCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $7,500 · Human Services
Other$6,501,433Education$408,695Youth Development$91,181Human Services$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED METHODIST HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $319,500 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL: $91,181 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $55,195 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $52,966 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLydia Patterson Institute: $34,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCORNERSTONES OF CARE: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNITED METHODIST HIGHER EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EPWORTH CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Lydia Patterson Institute ↗

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.

Community Foundation …St Louis Community Fo…Greater Kansas City C…United Way of Greater…Greater HorizonsThe US Charitable Gif…Raymond James Charita…Verizon FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Donor Advised Charita…
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO16.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Greater Horizons · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Missouri United Methodist Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Missouri United Methodist Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 82 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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