· Private foundation
Ruth E Brookshire Charitable Foundation Inc
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 · $34k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lebanon Education Foundation | $15,000 |
| Shalom House | $10,000 |
| Boone County Senior Services | $10,000 |
| Boone County Historical Society | $6,000 |
| ILADD | $5,100 |
| Lebanon Boys & Girls Club | $5,000 |
| Sullivan Munce Cultural Center | $4,000 |
| Oak Hill Cemetary Foundation | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Sylvia's Place | $2,500 |
| The Caring Center | $2,500 |
| Love Inc | $2,000 |
| Thorntown Historical Society | $1,000 |
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, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% 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 +81% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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; $3k 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
- BCBOONE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $67k · revenue +36%
- LELEBANON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $46k · revenue +86%
- SCSullivanMunce Cultural Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- OHOAK HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +61%
- BCBoone County 4-H Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PPPresbyterian Placeone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
The mission of the boone county agricultural education center inc is to help facilitate the creation and operation of a public center designed to educate members of the public on agricultural operations.
Dedicated to acquiring, preserving,interpeting, and displaying the historical artifacts and records of Boone County.
Housing and other services provided to developmentally disabled individuals to promote their ability to function as independently as possible.
It is our mission to nuture an environment where individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities are valued, provided opportunities, and treated with god's love and compassion.
The organization aids in providing services that will enhance the lives of senior citizens in cooper county, missouri.
Adult day training facility providing programs and services for adults with intellectual disabilites.
The mission of the organization is to stimulate interest in boone county history through education, research, collection and preservation of artifacts and archival materials.
To provide facillities and activities for persons age 50 and older and to work for enhancement of quality of life for seniors through social interaction.
Provide housing for elderly
NURSING HOME To provide elder care to anyone who is in need.
To provide low income housing for those in need.
The boone county council on aging is dedicated to all older adults and their caregivers by reaching out with programs to help enrich and improve their quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boone County Senior Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oak Hill Cemetery Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 56 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 BOONE COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Boone County Mentoring Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds LEBANON EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SullivanMunce Cultural Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SUGAR CREEK ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ILADD ↗
- Who funds HENRY C ULEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HELP INC ↗
- Who funds OAK HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION 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.
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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 Ruth E Brookshire Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
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