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Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$299k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.1MFood & Nutrition$241kHuman Services$172kArts & Culture$147kYouth Development$130kReligion$124kPublic Safety & Disaster$105kHealth$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Least of These: $10k → 8%Least of These: $10k → 8%Least of These: $6k → 8%Least of These: $4k → 8%Least of These: $2k → 8%Foster Adopt Connect: $10k → 15%Least of These: $2k → 8%Foster Adopt Connect: $5k → 15%Developmental Center of the Ozarks: $5k → 15%Developmental Center of the Ozarks: $4k → 15%Foster Adopt Connect: $3k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $2k → 15%Developmental Center of the Ozarks: $1k → 15%Gift of Hope Inc: $13k → 14%Dogwood Ranch: $1k → 15%Dogwood Ranch: $1k → 15%Gift of Hope Inc: $9k → 14%Lost and Found: $3k → 15%Care to Learn: $1k → 15%Gift of Hope Inc: $7k → 14%Gift of Hope Inc: $6k → 14%Gift of Hope Inc: $6k → 14%Gift of Hope Inc: $3k → 14%Gift of Hope Inc: $3k → 14%American Red Cross: $25k → 15%American Red Cross: $20k → 15%American Red Cross: $18k → 15%American Red Cross: $18k → 15%American Red Cross: $8k → 15%American Red Cross: $6k → 15%American Red Cross: $5k → 15%American Red Cross: $5k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission Inc: $3k → 15%Branson-Hollister Senior Center: $5k → 14%Branson-Hollister Senior Center: $2k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 44 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
23

Total granted

$2.3M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

45%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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 ServicesEducationReligionPhilanthropyFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • OT
    OZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $300k · revenue +317%
  • CO
    COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $275k · revenue +23%
  • OF
    OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • DU
    Drury Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +34%
  • BM
    Bethel Mission Trust
    one grant, 2017 · $11k
  • DC
    Discovery Center of the Ozarks
    one grant, 2021 · $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
University of the Ozarks

True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.

Education
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
Ozark Regional Share and Care

Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need

Human Services
5
Arc of the Ozarks

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.

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6
Community Blood Center of the Ozarks

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.

Health
7
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
8
Recovery Center of the Ozarks

To provide substance abuse counceling and services

Health
9
Ozark Food Pantry

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Cross-Lines Community Outreach Inc

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.

Human Services
11
Care Center-Child Abuse Response and Evaluation Inc Dba the Care Center

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.

Human Services
12
Christian Cooperative Ministry Inc

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bradleyville School: $419,715 · OtherBradleyville SchoolIndividual grant recipient: $152,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWhite River Valley Historical Socie: $147,000 · OtherWhite River Valley Historical SocieBoys Girls Club of the Ozarks: $84,000 · OtherBoys Girls Club of the OzarksBRIDGE OF FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH: $61,000 · OtherChristian Action Ministries: $56,500 · Other+40 more: $378,180 · Other+40 moreOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 · PhilanthropyOZARKS TECHNIC…+1 more: $2,000 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $274,500 · EducationCOLLEGE OF THE…Drury University: $20,000 · EducationDrury Universi…+2 more: $6,000 · EducationAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $105,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…GIFT OF HOPE INC: $47,200 · Human ServicesGIFT OF HOP…LEAST OF THESE INC: $33,500 · Human ServicesLEAST OF TH…FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $18,100 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT…DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $10,000 · Human Services+6 more: $17,500 · Human Services+6 moreOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $132,000 · Food & NutritionELEVATE BRANSON: $28,800 · Food & NutritionFaith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center: $51,940 · HealthMy Neighbors Charitable Pharmacy: $5,227 · HealthRURAL COMPASSION: $16,000 · ReligionBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · ReligionKIDS ACROSS AMERICA: $2,000 · Religion
Other$1,298,395Philanthropy$302,000Education$300,500Human Services$231,300Food & Nutrition$160,800Health$57,167Religion$24,000

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 budgetOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE OZARKS: $274,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $132,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $105,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Action Ministries: $56,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFaith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center: $51,940 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetGIFT OF HOPE INC: $47,200 over 7y, 6.5% of budgetLEAST OF THESE INC: $33,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetELEVATE BRANSON: $28,800 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS: $27,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetOZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE: $21,167 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDrury University: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $18,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL COMPASSION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetRebound Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL: $10,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetBranson Senior Center: $7,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN ASSOCIATES OF TABLE ROCK LAKE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARING PEOPLE: $3,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOST & FOUND: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALICE LLOYD COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare to Learn: $1,000 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 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 RURAL COMPASSION ↗
  • Who funds LIVES UNDER CONSTRUCTION RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds Rebound Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Branson Senior Center ↗

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…Arvest FoundationMusgrave FoundationUnited Way of the Oza…The Hulston Family Fo…Ozarks Health Advocac…Stephen & Helen G Sed…The Turner Family Fou…Robert M - Bobby - Al…The Herschend Family …
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO55.3× affinity26 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 70 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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