· Private foundation
Roy W Slusher Charitable 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.
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 · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bradleyville School | $61,374 |
| OTC Foundation | $50,000 |
| College of The Ozarks | $45,000 |
| Ozarks Food Harvest | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| Boys Girls Club of the Ozarks | $15,000 |
| Christian Action Ministries | $14,000 |
| Faith Community Health Inc | $10,640 |
| White River Valley Historical Socie | $7,500 |
| Bridge of Faith Community Church | $6,000 |
| Barnabas Foundation Inc | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,640 |
| Least of These | $5,500 |
| My Neighbor's Charitable Pharmacy | $5,227 |
| Foster Adopt Connect | $5,100 |
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 (FY17–25, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 86% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- OTOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +317%
- COCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +23%
- OFOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC8× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- DUDrury Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +34%
- BMBethel Mission Trustone grant, 2017 · $11k
- DCDiscovery Center of the Ozarksone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
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,…
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…
Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need
To be a leader in service delivery for persons with disabilities by providing an array of supports and services to integrate them into their communities and to enhance the quality of their lives.
Our mission is to provide a quality blood supply, in a timely manner, at the lowest reasonable fee, while remaining accountable to the local community, blood donors and health care providers.
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 provide substance abuse counceling and services
Our Mission is to reach out to those in need in our area by providing healthy and nuritious food and other necessities to families and individuals who cannot afford them. In addition, the Pantry refers families to other agencies which can…
To provide people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet the needs of today, and provide the tools for future self-sufficiency.
The CARE Center exists to reduce trauma for child abuse victims and their families, coordinate a multidisciplinary approach to child abuse investigations, and provide free, effective child abuse prevention resources and education.
To provide food and clothing for the residents in madison, tennessee and surrounding davidson county residents that are in need. we also provide sack lunches to the homeless in the area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is The Caring People. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 70 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 OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Christian Action Ministries ↗
- Who funds Faith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BRANSON ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds OZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds RURAL COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds Rebound Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds OZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds Branson Senior Center ↗
- Who funds IPOURLIFE 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 · Arvest Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · United Way of the Ozarks Inc · The Hulston Family Foundation · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust · The Turner Family Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · The Herschend 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 Roy W Slusher Charitable 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.