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Stafford Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Stafford Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$146k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$215kEnvironment$150kFood & Nutrition$125kHealth$105kEducation$102kCrime & Legal$82kArts & Culture$70kHousing & Shelter$64kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $140k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MID-MO HIGH STEPPERS$40,000
BOONE COUNTY NATURE SCHOOL$37,500
HEART OF MISSOURI CASA$25,000
POLICE FOUNDATION OF HALLSVILLE$15,000
THE HALO FOUNDATION$12,430
FAYETTE SENIOR CITIZENS INC$10,150
STONEBRIDGE HOUSE$5,000
COMO MOBILE AID COLLECTIVE$1,000
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, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SERVE INC: $36k → 11%SERVE INC: $10k → 11%COYOTE HILL CHRISTIAN CHILDREN'S HOME: $7k → 17%AUDRAIN COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES: $3k → 18%YMCA OF CALLAWAY COUNTY: $7k → 11%YMCA OF CALLAWAY COUNTY: $5k → 11%COMO MOBILE AID COLLECTIVE: $20k → 17%CENTRAL MISSOURI DIABETIC CHILDREN'S CAMP: $10k → 17%COMO MOBILE AID COLLECTIVE: $1k → 17%CARING HEARTS AND HANDS OF COLUMBIA: $7k → 17%PET MISSOURI - COLUMBIA MO: $27k → 17%LOVE COLUMBIA: $7k → 17%CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 17%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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$601k · 16 repeat orgs$536k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
53

Total granted

$601k
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+16%

Still filing today

63%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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 ServicesHealthEducationHousing & ShelterEmploymentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CC
    Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture
    3× · 2017–2022 · $105k · revenue +354%
  • SI
    SERVE INC
    2× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +30%
  • HO
    HEART OF MISSOURI CASA
    2× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +427%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE FARM
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • PM
    PET MISSOURI - COLUMBIA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $27k · revenue -15%
  • UC
    UNITED COMMUNITY BUILDERS DEVELOPMENT CORP
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Carthage Crisis Center Inc

The carthage crisis center is committed to restoring homeless and needy people to self sufficiency with god's help.

Health
2
Crisis Center of Russell County

The Crisis Center of Russell County was organized to provide assistance and temporary housing to victims of domestic abuse through secured temporary housing and education with job placement to transition them back into society. In…

Public Safety & Disaster
3
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
4
Gibson Center for Behavioral Change

The Gibson Center for Behavorial Change is committed to providing comprehensive services which promote new behaviors for a healthy lifestyle.

Health
5
House Everyone Stl

Our Mission is to solve homelessness as we know it by establishing a pathway for our unhoused neighbors to a home with dignity.

Housing & Shelter
6
Capital City Casa

It is the mission of the capital city casa to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children with the 19th judicial circuit of missouri, based on the belief that all children are entitled to a safe and permanent home. the…

Crime & Legal
7
Harcum House

Our mission is to reduce trauma and enhance healing by providing advocacy, education and outreach.

Human Services
8
Nova Center of the Ozarks Inc

Nova center of the ozarks, inc strives to make possible the potential for positive change in the quality of life for every individual with a developmental disability, regardless of the nature of that disability.

Human Services
9
Restoration House of Greater Kansas City

ReHope empowers and elevates survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation through its faith-based, trauma-informed residence and recovery programs.

Housing & Shelter
10
Community Workshop & Training Center Inc

Our central Illinois organization provides programs and services to adults with disabilities; enriching their quality of life, promoting social change, and optimizing their potential for independence.

Human Services
11
Womens Crisis Center of Taney County Inc

The Crisis Center provides shelter and services to victims and their children of domestic and sexual violence.

Human Services
12
Missouri Valley Housing Corporation

Provide housing for elderly

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heart of Missouri Casa; the most unlike its peers is Child Development Center. 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

43 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. 43 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/43
Grantees still filing
28/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOONE COUNTY NATURE SCHOOL: $150,000 · OtherBOONE COUNTY NATURE SCHOOLFRIENDS OF THE FARM: $50,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FARMKOPN: $45,000 · OtherKOPNMID-MO HIGH STEPPERS: $40,000 · OtherMID-MO HIGH STEPPERS+45 more: $382,087 · Other+45 moreSERVE INC: $46,000 · Human ServicesSERVE INCPET MISSOURI - COLUMBIA INC: $26,873 · Human ServicesPET MISSOURI - C…Central Missouri Diabetic Childrens Camp Camp Hickory Hill: $25,000 · Human ServicesCentral Missouri…COMO MOBILE AID COLLECTIVE: $21,000 · Human ServicesCOMO MOBILE AID …YMCA OF CALLAWAY COUNTY: $11,764 · Human ServicesYMCA OF CALLAWAY…TRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC: $10,110 · Human ServicesTRUE NORTH OF CO…Love Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $7,250 · Human ServicesCaring Hearts And Hands of Columbia: $7,159 · Human ServicesCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $7,000 · Human Services+2 more: $5,740 · Human ServicesColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $105,000 · EnvironmentColumbia C…COLUMBIA COLLEGE: $75,000 · EducationCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationHEART OF MISSOURI CASA: $28,475 · Crime & LegalPOLICE FOUNDATION OF HALLSVILLE: $15,000 · Crime & LegalSpectrum Health Care: $13,580 · HealthSAVING KIDSIGHT: $8,150 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INC: $6,710 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND: $5,000 · HealthINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO: $2,682 · HealthSHOW-ME CENTRAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterAUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSTONEBRIDGE HOUSE: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$667,087Human Services$167,896Environment$105,000Education$87,500Crime & Legal$43,475Health$36,122Housing & Shelter$30,000

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 budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $105,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCOLUMBIA COLLEGE: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSERVE INC: $46,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHEART OF MISSOURI CASA: $28,475 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPET MISSOURI - COLUMBIA INC: $26,873 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCentral Missouri Diabetic Childrens Camp Camp Hickory Hill: $25,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetCOMO MOBILE AID COLLECTIVE: $21,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetDo Something Right Now Inc: $20,140 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetIN2ACTION: $17,890 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSHOW-ME CENTRAL HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPOLICE FOUNDATION OF HALLSVILLE: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $13,815 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSpectrum Health Care: $13,580 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF CALLAWAY COUNTY: $11,764 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMISSOURI COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $10,625 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUE NORTH OF COLUMBIA INC: $10,110 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL METHODIST UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreat Rivers Council - Boy Scouts of America: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWELCOME HOME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT EMERGENCY SHELTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAUDRAIN COUNTY SHELTER RESOURCE COALITION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $9,273 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCEDAR CREEK THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $9,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSAVING KIDSIGHT: $8,150 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLOVE MY JOB TRAINING CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLove Columbia Corp Love Columbia: $7,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCaring Hearts And Hands of Columbia: $7,159 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCoyote Hill Foster Care Ministries: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF MID MISSOURI INC: $6,710 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK FOR CENTRAL & NORTHEAST MISSOURI: $6,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY HEARTLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINGDOM PROJECTS INC: $4,780 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAUDRAIN COUNTY CRISIS INTERVENTION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE INC: $2,900 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetINDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER OF MID-MO: $2,682 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNora Stewart Early Learning Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

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.

Veterans United Found…Fred V & Dorothy H He…Allen P and Josephine…Boone Electric Commun…Orscheln Industries F…Boone County Communit…Mfa Oil FoundationHeart of Missouri Uni…Griffin Family Founda…McCortney FoundationUnited Way of Central…Edward Jones Foundati…
Veterans United FoundationMO61.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Veterans United Foundation · Fred V & Dorothy H Heinkel Charitable Foundation · Allen P and Josephine B Green · Boone Electric Community Trust · Orscheln Industries Foundation Inc · Boone County Community Trust · Mfa Oil Foundation · Heart of Missouri United Way Inc · Griffin Family Foundation Inc · McCortney Foundation · United Way of Central Missouri Inc · Edward Jones 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 Stafford Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stafford Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 74 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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