· Private foundation
Ruth I Kolpin Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of Ruth I Kolpin Foundation’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of The Ozarks Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Ruth I Kolpin Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $49k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k10 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN | $5,000 |
| ST ANN'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| JOPLIN AREA CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000 |
| JASPER COUNTY CASA | $3,975 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| CARTHAGE AREA UNITED WAY | $2,000 |
| ARTCENTRAL | $1,000 |
| BOYS SCOUNTS OF AMERICA OZARK TRAILS COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| ATHENA FOUNDATION | $850 |
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 (FY17–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 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 +66% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- MSMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $92k · revenue +110%
- MHMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +175%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $3k
- CHCHILDRENS HAVENone grant, 2018 · $2k
- AOASPIRE OF SW MOone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.
The foundation will promote charitable gifts to ensure excellence in community healthcare. the foundation is dedicated to ensuring that the carthage area retains and maintains a local hospital, which delivers quality primary healthcare to…
The organization's purpose is to assist in meeting the emergency financial and physical needs of needy persons and families.
To provide financial support to the carthage public library, a municipally owned library in carthage, missouri.
Support and assist in the development of jobs in the city of carthage, missouri, and thereby to enhance the economic welfare of carthage residents by fostering greater employment opportunities and the standard of living for the carthage…
To provide fire protection services to the city of carthage, texas.
Collection and preservation of historical documents pertaining to saint charles county, missouri and making them available to the general public
To support carthage public library operation and programming
Support local library
To collect and interpret the history and culture of fairfield, jefferson county and the surrounding area.
Encourage, support, and perform historic preservation activities in Carthage, Missouri. It is our mission to ensure the historic and architectural integrity of unique and significant properties in our community to be enjoyed for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Health Foundation Joplin and the most unlike its peers is Carthage Historic Preservation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds Carthage Historic Preservation ↗
- Who funds JOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SCHOOL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE AREA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds JASPER COUNTY CASA ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE ARTS SUPPORT TEAM ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds VISION CARTHAGE ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE R-9 SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIR ACRES FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds ART FEEDS CARTHAGE ↗
- Who funds TRUCKSTOP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARTHAGE HUMANE SOCIETY 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 · Ir Tua KD&ML Steadley Charitable · Helen S Boylan Foundation · Arvest Foundation · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · McCune-Brooks Health Care Foundation Inc · Michael a Mary Louise & Christine L Glauber Foundation · Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities · Freeman R Johnson Trust · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · The Bramlage and Willcoxon 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 Ruth I Kolpin 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.
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