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Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation at a glance

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Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$88k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$383kHealth$159kReligion$96kFood & Nutrition$76kCrime & Legal$57kYouth Development$15kHousing & Shelter$14kCommunity Improvement$9kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S SMILE CENTER$8,850
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SW MO$6,000
GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH$5,850
OZARKS FOOD HARVEST$5,000
ARC OF THE OZARKS$5,000
DREW LEWIS FOUNDATION$5,000
CROSSLINES COMMUNITY OUTREACH$5,000
FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT$5,000
CHILD ADVOVACY CENTER$5,000
LUTHERAN FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SVC$5,000
KVC MISSOURI$5,000
HARMONY HOUSE$5,000
OZARKS COUNSELING CENTER$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF THE OZARKS$4,752
GIFT OF HOPE$3,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%LEAST OF THESE: $10k → 8%PREGNANCY LIFE LINE: $4k → 13%GIFT OF HOPE: $5k → 14%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%GIFT OF HOPE: $5k → 14%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $5k → 18%GIFT OF HOPE: $5k → 14%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $13k → 15%GIFT OF HOPE: $3k → 14%LEAST OF THESE: $5k → 8%HAND IN HAND MULTICULTURAL CENTER: $8k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $6k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%DREW LEWIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%DREW LEWIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%DREW LEWIS FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $5k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $4k → 15%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT: $4k → 15%THE KITCHEN: $4k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $4k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $5k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $5k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $5k → 15%LOST AND FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $5k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $5k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $5k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $5k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $5k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $5k → 15%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $4k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $4k → 15%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $3k → 15%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $3k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SW MO: $6k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SW MO: $6k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SW MO: $6k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MO: $5k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SW MO: $5k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SW MO: $4k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $6k → 15%THE KITCHEN: $5k → 15%THE KITCHEN: $5k → 15%GIFT OF HOPE: $4k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$751k · 33 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
10

Total granted

$751k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+204%

Still filing today

70%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther
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

  • OF
    OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +69%
  • TC
    THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $42k · revenue +46%
  • FC
    FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC
    6× · 2018–2025 · $41k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • HI
    HAND IN HAND MULTICULTURAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +205%
  • CO
    COUNCIL OF CHURCHESCROSSLINES
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
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
Family Health Center of Boone County

To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.

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2
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
3
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
4
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
5
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.

Health
6
Healthcare Services of the Ozarks Inc

To provide high quality care and set the standards of excellence for those we serve.

Health
7
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…

Health
8
Clark Community Mental Health Center

Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.

Health
9
Care Net Center of Greater Orleans

Pregnancy counseling

Unclassified
10
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
11
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
12
Missouri Family Health Council Inc

We exist to ensure that everyone - no matter their income, geography, identity, or circumstances - can access high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center; the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Life Line Inc. 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

31 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. 31 of the 47 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/31
Grantees still filing
27/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INC: $83,500 · OtherCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INCDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS: $28,250 · OtherDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKSRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF: $24,679 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OFOZARKS COUNSELING CENTER: $22,500 · OtherOZARKS COUNSELING CENTERPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES: $22,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMESCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $17,200 · OtherGREAT CIRCLE: $16,506 · OtherCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $15,000 · OtherLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI: $15,000 · OtherARC OF THE OZARKS: $14,990 · OtherBREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZA: $14,900 · Other+12 more: $66,952 · Other+12 moreFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $40,800 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INCFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $38,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC: $33,753 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MIS…GIFT OF HOPE INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesGIFT OF HOPE INCCare to Learn: $17,500 · Human ServicesCare to LearnGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $16,250 · Human ServicesGood Samaritan Boys RanchDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INCLEAST OF THESE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLEAST OF THESE INCLOST & FOUND: $14,750 · Human ServicesLOST & FOUNDTHE KITCHEN INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE KITCHEN INCDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $11,157 · Human Services+2 more: $11,600 · Human ServicesTHE VICTIM CENTER: $33,000 · HealthTHE VICTIM C…CHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC: $31,017 · HealthCHILDRENS SM…DOULA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA INC: $13,388 · HealthDOULA FOUNDA…Burrell Foundation: $6,000 · HealthBurrell Foun…SKAGGS FOUNDATION: $3,095 · Health+1 more: $1,952 · HealthOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $61,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $42,279 · Crime & LegalCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $16,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $8,525 · Community ImprovementIPOURLIFE INC: $8,400 · International
Other$341,477Human Services$249,810Health$88,452Food & Nutrition$61,000Crime & Legal$58,279Community Improvement$8,525International$8,400

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $61,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $42,279 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $40,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $38,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC: $33,753 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VICTIM CENTER: $33,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC: $31,017 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS: $28,250 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGIFT OF HOPE INC: $21,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCare to Learn: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $16,506 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $16,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetLEAST OF THESE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARC OF THE OZARKS: $14,990 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOST & FOUND: $14,750 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOULA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA INC: $13,388 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $11,157 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $8,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC: $8,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAND IN HAND MULTICULTURAL CENTER: $7,600 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBurrell Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPREGNANCY LIFE LINE INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSKAGGS FOUNDATION: $3,095 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI INC ↗
  • Who funds THE VICTIM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC ↗
  • Who funds DIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds GIFT OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds Care to Learn ↗
  • Who funds GREAT CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds DREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC ↗
  • Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds ARC OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds LOST & FOUND ↗
  • Who funds THE KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds DOULA FOUNDATION OF MID-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds EQUI LIBRIUM THERAPY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds IPOURLIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds HAND IN HAND MULTICULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Burrell Foundation ↗

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…Musgrave FoundationRobert M - Bobby - Al…The Turner Family Fou…Larry P O'Reilly and …Commerce Bancshares F…Arvest FoundationStephen & Helen G Sed…The Hulston Family Fo…Rick and Marsha Floyd…
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO53.9× affinity25 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 · Musgrave Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · The Turner Family Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust · The Hulston Family Foundation · Rick and Marsha Floyd 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 Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation. 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%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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

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    How do I get to Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ozarks Health Advocacy 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 47 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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