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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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2020
76
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

42
’17
47
’18
46
’19
45
’20
1
’21
0
’22
0
’23
0
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$7.5MArts & Culture$735kYouth Development$641kHuman Services$582kEducation$416kHealth$271kFood & Nutrition$249kCommunity Improvement$246kOther$0
02FY2020 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k52 grants · $224k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $493k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Least of These: $14k → 8%Least of These: $11k → 8%Least of These: $10k → 8%Least of These: $3k → 8%Women's Medical Respite: $10k → 15%Women's Medical Respite: $8k → 15%Women's Medical Respite: $6k → 15%Center City Christian Outreach: $6k → 15%Center City Christian Outreach: $6k → 15%Center City Christian Outreach: $5k → 15%Center City Christian Outreach: $4k → 15%Senior Age Area Agency of Aging: $28k → 15%Senior Age Area Agency of Aging: $13k → 15%Senior Age Area Agency of Aging: $10k → 15%Catholic Charities of Southern MO: $5k → 15%Catholic Charities of Southern MO: $4k → 15%Senior Age Area Agency of Aging: $3k → 15%Good Samaritan Boys Ranch: $9k → 15%The Kitchen: $9k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $8k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $8k → 15%The Kitchen: $7k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $6k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $5k → 15%The Kitchen: $4k → 15%Good Samaritan Boys Ranch: $3k → 15%Good Samaritan Boys Ranch: $3k → 15%Gathering Tree: $7k → 15%The Gathering Tree: $5k → 15%Good Dads Inc: $4k → 15%Good Dads Inc: $4k → 15%Harmony House: $4k → 15%Harmony House: $3k → 15%Good Dads Inc: $3k → 15%Harmony House: $3k → 15%American Red Cross: $36k → 15%American Red Cross: $32k → 15%Developmental Center of the Ozarks: $23k → 15%American Red Cross: $22k → 15%Care to Learn: $17k → 15%Drew Lewis Foundation: $9k → 15%American Red Cross: $8k → 15%Care to Learn: $6k → 15%Foster Adopt Connect: $5k → 15%Drew Lewis Foundation: $5k → 15%Foster Adopt Connect: $5k → 15%Developmental Center of the Ozarks: $4k → 15%Foster Adopt Connect: $3k → 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 79 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +56% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
23

Total granted

$3.6M
$201k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+56%

Still filing today

56%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionCrime & LegalOther
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

  • SS
    Springfield Symphony Association
    4× · 2017–2020 · $506k · revenue +58%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $193k · revenue +48%
  • CF
    COXHEALTH FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $137k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • FF
    Foundation for Springfield Public S
    one grant, 2019 · $143k
  • SL
    SPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +361%
  • CH
    CRIMSON HOUSE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Ozark Center

To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed, quality behavioral healthcare solutions.

Health
4
Ozark Opportunities Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
5
Douglas County Public Health Svcs Group Inc

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.

Health
6
Southeast Missouri Food Bank Inc

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…

Food & Nutrition
7
Family Advocacy and Community Training Inc

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…

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8
Ozarks New Hope Inc

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…

Health
9
Safehome Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Casa of South Central Missouri

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…

Human Services
11
Nova Center of the Ozarks Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Children's Home Society of Missouri

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center; 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.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/57
Grantees still filing
48/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $7,534,486 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC+1 more: $136,500 · PhilanthropyLighthouse Child Development Center: $552,750 · OtherLighthouse Child Developmen…Springfield Symphony Association: $505,500 · OtherSpringfield Symphony Associ…Council of Churches of Ozarks: $198,000 · OtherCouncil of Churches of Ozar…Foundation for Springfield Public S: $142,500 · OtherSPRINGFIELD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL: $112,000 · OtherOzarks Technical Comm College Found: $101,500 · Other+80 more: $1,113,050 · Other+80 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $97,300 · Human ServicesSENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $52,500 · Human ServicesLEAST OF THESE INC: $37,000 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $28,500 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MEDICAL RESPITE: $23,000 · Human ServicesCare to Learn: $22,000 · Human ServicesCenter City Christian Outreach Inc: $19,700 · Human ServicesTHE KITCHEN INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · Human Services+8 more: $74,200 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $126,500 · EducationDrury University: $72,000 · EducationAWAKEN360 INC: $11,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $192,850 · Community ImprovementOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $108,000 · Food & NutritionSPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY GARDENS: $27,000 · Food & NutritionSOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $15,500 · Food & NutritionIPOURLIFE INC: $36,500 · InternationalCONVOY OF HOPE: $24,500 · International
Philanthropy$7,670,986Other$2,725,300Human Services$412,200Education$211,000Community Improvement$192,850Food & Nutrition$150,500International$61,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $7,534,486 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetSpringfield Symphony Association: $505,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $192,850 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION: $136,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $126,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL: $112,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $108,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $97,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDrury University: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $52,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLEAST OF THESE INC: $37,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC: $36,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS: $30,500 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $28,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY GARDENS: $27,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetSPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC: $25,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARC OF THE OZARKS: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCare to Learn: $22,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCenter City Christian Outreach Inc: $19,700 over 4y, 10% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIFE360 COMMUNITY SERVICES: $17,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTHERN WEBSTER COUNTY FOOD PANTRY: $15,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetSOUTHWEST CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING: $15,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $15,300 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetTHE VICTIM CENTER: $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $13,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GATHERING TREE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE: $12,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGOOD DADS INC: $11,500 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $11,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC: $10,700 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC: $8,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $8,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL: $7,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPREGNANCY CARE CENTER: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetDOULA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF ST LOUIS: $4,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHistory Museum on the Square Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITE OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSOUTHWEST MISSOURI MUSEUM ASSOCIATES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 1.8% 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 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 CRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • 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 ↗

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 …The Charlie & Mary Be…Stanley & Elaine Ball…Robert M - Bobby - Al…Ozarks Health Advocac…The Hulston Family Fo…Larry P O'Reilly and …Ozarks Food Harvest I…Commerce Bancshares F…Arvest FoundationRoy W Slusher Charita…The Turner Family Fou…
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO83.4× affinity43 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 · 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

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 Musgrave Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Musgrave Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
    24report 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, 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Musgrave Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Musgrave Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 116 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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