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Musgrave Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Musgrave Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of The Ozarks Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Musgrave Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 45 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k52 grants · $224k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $493k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Springfield Symphony Association | $250,000 |
| Lighthouse Child Development Center | $93,750 |
| Council of Churches of Ozarks | $71,500 |
| Springfield Regional Arts Council | $40,500 |
| Friends of Garden | $40,500 |
| Cox Health Foundation | $37,500 |
| Ozark Food Harvest | $35,500 |
| American Red Cross | $35,500 |
| Cents of Pride Fund | $30,800 |
| Community Partnership of the Ozarks | $30,500 |
| SW Baptist University | $28,500 |
| Niangua Tlc | $28,500 |
| Senior Age Area Agency of Aging | $27,500 |
| Developmental Center of the Ozarks | $23,000 |
| Community Foundation of the Ozarks | $20,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $412k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 91% of those 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.
79 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2020, 17 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- SSSpringfield Symphony Association4× · 2017–2020 · $506k · revenue +58%
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $193k · revenue +48%
- CFCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $137k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- FFFoundation for Springfield Public Sone grant, 2019 · $143k
- SLSPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +361%
- CHCRIMSON HOUSE MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $6k
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.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed, quality behavioral healthcare solutions.
To render constructive civic service, including the sponsorship of social, educational, and economic projects for the promotion of the welfare of the community and the citizens of the ozarks situated in baxter, boone, marion, newton,…
It is the mission of the douglas county public health services group, inc. dba/missouri ozarks community health, to provide quality, affordable primary medical, dental, and behavioral health care to all.
The mission of the southeast missouri food bank is to promote food recovery; acquire and distribute food and household products; and provide community leadership and education on issues of hunger and poverty in an effort to alleviate…
Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…
Provide integrated, patient-centered health services designed to meet the needs of all patients, regardless of ability to pay; help the healthcare industry better serve patients & community by promoting public health; supporting…
To break the cycle of domestic violence and partner abuse for victims and their children by providing shelter, advocacy, counseling and prevention education in our community.
To provide a voice for the abused and neglected children in the 25th judicial court system. trained and committed volunteers work in conjunction with key agencies and legal representatives of the children to shorten the time from the court…
Nova center of the ozarks, inc strives to make possible the potential for positive change in the quality of life for every individual with a developmental disability, regardless of the nature of that disability.
The agency's overarching philosophy is based in the neurosequential model of therapeutics (nmt), developed by dr. bruce perry. nmt is a trauma-informed, developmentally sensitive approach to understanding the impact of a child's history on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center and the most unlike its peers is Kids Across America Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
57 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. 57 of the 116 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.
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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Springfield Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds COXHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds HEART OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC ↗
- Who funds IPOURLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY GARDENS ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MEDICAL RESPITE ↗
- Who funds Care to Learn ↗
- Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds Center City Christian Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE KITCHEN INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · The Hulston Family Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Ozarks Food Harvest Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · The Turner Family 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 Musgrave Foundation 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.
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