· Private foundation
Robert E Oliphant Charitable Foundation Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $635k
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Partners for Odessa Parks & Rec | $400,000 |
| UCM Alumni Foundation | $125,000 |
| Summit Christian Academy | $100,000 |
| Community Service League | $100,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $100,000 |
| Mercer County Senior Center | $60,000 |
| Pony Express Council Boy Scouts | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Friends of the Problem Solving Courts | $50,000 |
| LaMonte School Foundation | $35,000 |
| Independence Meals on Wheels | $30,000 |
| Jill's Hope | $25,000 |
| Drum Farm | $20,000 |
| Paws & Pals | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $720k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCommunity Services League of Jackson County8× · 2017–2025 · $655k · revenue +100%
- SCSUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY4× · 2021–2025 · $350k · revenue +94%
- DPDeveloping Potential Inc2× · 2018–2019 · $200k · revenue +23%
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue +99%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $110k
- DFDrum Farm Center for Childrenone grant, 2023 · $70k
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.
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.
Improving food security for individuals and families through the Food Pantry and Children's Outreach program in Clay and Platte County Missouri.
Provide shelter, care, and adoption for rescued dogs.
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…
Providing food, clothing and help with utilities as well as other immediate needs for those who have lost jobs or had other misfortunes in the jefferson and walker counties. the organization also provides spiritual needs in conjunction…
Provide Animal-Assisted Activities and Therapy to the community.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 52 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Services League of Jackson County ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Developing Potential Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUMAN HERITAGE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds INDEPENDENCE MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PAWS & PALS ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Jill's Hope ↗
- Who funds ODESSA COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 5675 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Truman Heartland Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert E Oliphant Charitable Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E Oliphant Charitable Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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