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Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust

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.

$16k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
71%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 9
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$349k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalCrime & LegalAnimalsRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$16k63%
FY20247$15k71%
FY20237$14k71%
FY20227$14k86%
FY20216$14k67%
FY20209$14k78%
FY20195$12k100%
FY20181$14kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Human Services$35kHealth$30kHousing & Shelter$8kReligion$6kRecreation & Sports$5kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$4kEmployment$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Arc of the Ozarks$23,54340%
Lost & Found$6,20030%
The Kitchen Inc$6,00030%
Smittys Midwest Boxing Gym & Youth Center Inc$5,07219%
Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation$5,00020%
Ozark Senior Center$4,50012%
Least of These Inc$4,00020%
Pps Foundation for Women in Need$3,07823%
Engage Mobility$3,0001n/a
Fosteradopt Connect Inc$3,00010%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArc of the Ozarks: $23,543 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLost & Found: $6,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kitchen Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSmittys Midwest Boxing Gym & Youth Center Inc: $5,072 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetOzarks Area Community Action Corporation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOzark Senior Center: $4,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLeast of These Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPps Foundation for Women in Need: $3,078 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFosteradopt Connect Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSWI Industrial Solutions Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLifesong for Orphans Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOzarks Teen Challenge: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCare to Learn: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDevelopmental Center of the Ozarks: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpringfield Symphony Association: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrisis Nursery of the Ozarks Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAdult & Teen Challenge USA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Victim Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIpourlife Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Violence Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTri-Lakes Humane Society: $1,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBarnabas Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Child Advocacy Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBranson Humane Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity - St Louis: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFostering Hope Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlake Wagner Foundation: $500 over 1y, 28% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable TrMO45.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Musgrave Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · Cook Family Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Rick and Marsha Floyd Foundation · The Hulston Family 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.

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About Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust

How much does Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust give?
Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust reported 8 grants totaling $15,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (31%), Health (26%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Arc of the Ozarks ($24k), Lost & Found ($6k), The Kitchen Inc ($6k).
Does Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr, Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation.
Where is Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust based?
Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust is based in MO.

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 38 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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