· Private foundation
Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k34 grants · $170k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR SPRINGFIELD PUBLIC | $20,000 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH LLC | $15,000 |
| CASA OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI | $10,000 |
| BARNABUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CARE TO LEARN | $10,000 |
| FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC | $10,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD WORKSHOP | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE OF FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST | $10,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD GREENE COUNTY PUBLIC LI | $8,750 |
| GIFT OF HOPE INC | $7,950 |
| CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK | $7,500 |
| HOPE COUNSELING CENTER | $7,500 |
| 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 (FY17–25, $439k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 78% 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 +28% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 12 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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
- GSGood Samaritan Boys Ranch8× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +73%
- SSSpringfield Symphony Association7× · 2018–2025 · $63k · revenue +61%
- OLOZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- TSTHE SPRINGFIELD GREENE COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $108k
- DRDOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +90%
- KFKIWANIS FOUNDATION OF SPRINGFIELD Sone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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,…
Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need
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…
True to our christian heritage, we prepare students from diverse religious, cultural, educational and economic backgrounds to live life fully.
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…
To provide access to primary medical, dental and mental health services for community members, with emphasis on the medically underserved, to improve the health of the community and to train future health care providers.
Central Ozarks Private Industry Council, Incorporated (COPIC) strives to provide all customers with access to professional, high-quality workforce development services, resulting in sustainable employment and contributing to positive…
Reduce the stigma and promote awareness surrounding mental health within the communities we serve, promote wellness, and provide individualized care with an integrated approach.
The Crisis Center provides shelter and services to victims and their children of domestic and sexual violence.
To provide substance abuse counceling and services
The purpose of the organization is to provide hope-centered, trauma-informed, child-first services that unite law enforcement, child protective services (state and tribal), prosecutors, mental health professionals, and medical…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christian County Cares. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 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. 51 of the 93 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 Taneyhills Library Inc DBA Friends of the Library ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch ↗
- Who funds CENTS OF PRIDE ↗
- Who funds Springfield Symphony Association ↗
- Who funds OZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds IPOURLIFE INC ↗
- Who funds GIFT OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Springfield Public Schools ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ARC OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS SMILE CENTER CSC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY CENTER OF SPRINGFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED ↗
- Who funds THE VICTIM CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ABILITIES FIRST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE360 COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Drury University ↗
- Who funds THE KITCHEN 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 · Musgrave Foundation · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust · The Hulston Family Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · Rick and Marsha Floyd Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · United Way of the Ozarks Inc · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr
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 Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr 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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