· Public charity
Springfield Black Tie Inc
Southwest missouri's premier fundraising event benefiting local and state- wide charities which serve the lgbt community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLO CENTER | $69,000 |
| PFLAG OF THE OZARKS | $30,750 |
| AIDS PROJECT OF THE OZARKS | $28,000 |
| MSU FOUNDATION | $26,800 |
| THE KITCHEN | $26,112 |
| FOSTERADOPT CONNECT | $20,000 |
| UNITED MINISTRIES IN HIGHER EDUCATI | $15,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL AVE CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER OF SPFD MO | $8,000 |
| MEN'S CHORUS OF THE OZARKS | $8,000 |
| THE VICTIM CENTER | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $224k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- GAGAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE OZARKS6× · 2017–2024 · $227k · revenue +153% · 84% of their budget
- APAIDS PROJECT OF THE OZARKS6× · 2017–2024 · $159k · revenue +206%
- FCFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC3× · 2018–2024 · $47k · revenue +187%
Funded once
- EMEMPOWER MISSOURIgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $11k · revenue +355%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- SLSPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +56%
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.
We exist to ensure that everyone - no matter their income, geography, identity, or circumstances - can access high-quality sexual and reproductive healthcare.
To provide advocacy, care and education to those affected by hiv/aids and other sexually transmitted diseases.
To provide advocacy services to LGBTQ victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and hate crimes.
To provide education on the prevention of hiv/aids and to provide comprehensive support services to those affected by the disease.
Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…
The missouri coalition against domestic and sexual violence (mocadsv) is the membership coalition that unites missourians with a common value that rape and abuse must end, and advances this through education, alliance, research, and public…
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
Equality illinois builds a better illinois by advancing equal treatment and social justice through education, advocacy and protection of the rights of the lgbt community.
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
Mcsa provides housing, basic health care, educational and vocational support services for those in need in muscatine county while working to reduce these needs through long-term social change in the community.
Child safe of central missouri's mission is to respond to and prevent child abuse by providing advocacy, support, and resources to children who are alleged victims of abuse and other traumatic crimes, and to their non-offending family…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empower Missouri. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 20 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 GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds AIDS PROJECT OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds THE KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds PROMO FUND ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VICTIM CENTER ↗
- Who funds OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD LITTLE THEATRE 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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Springfield Black Tie 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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