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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$35kHealth$30kHousing & Shelter$8kReligion$6kRecreation & Sports$5kYouth Development$5kFood & Nutrition$4kEmployment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$349k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC$3,000
ENGAGE MOBILITY$3,000
CARE TO LEARN$2,500
THE KITCHEN INC$2,000
SWI INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS INC$1,500
BARNABAS FOUNDATION$1,500
REBOUND FOUNDATION INC$1,250
IPOURLIFE INC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FOSTER ADOPT CONNECT INC: $3k → 15%BLAKE WAGNER FOUNDATION: $500 → 16%FOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION: $500 → 9%LEAST OF THESE INC: $3k → 8%LEAST OF THESE INC: $2k → 8%OZARKS AREA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $4k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC: $3k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $3k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC: $2k → 15%PPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED INC: $2k → 15%PPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED INC: $1k → 15%OZARKS AREA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $1k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC: $1k → 15%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $3k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $3k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $2k → 15%LOST & FOUND GRIEF CENTER: $2k → 15%GOOD SAMARITAN BOYS RANCH: $2k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$53k · 8 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
25

Total granted

$53k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesAnimalsCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterInternationalRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AO
    ARC OF THE OZARKS
    4× · 2018–2023 · $24k · revenue +136%
  • LF
    LOST & FOUND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +19%
  • TK
    THE KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • SM
    SMITTYS MIDWEST BOXING GYM & YOUTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +182%
  • OS
    OZARK SENIOR CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%
  • DC
    DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Ozark Center

To improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, evidence-based, trauma-informed, quality behavioral healthcare solutions.

Health
3
Choices for Victims of Domestic Violence

To create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home health care…

Human Services
4
The Center for Women and Families Inc

To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.

Human Services
5
Child Safe of Central Missouri Inc

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…

Crime & Legal
6
Ozarks Food Harvest Inc

Ozarks food harvest's mission is to transform hunger into hope.

Food & Nutrition
7
Magdala House

To provide outpatient and residential rehabilitative services to individuals and families referred by various government agencies. these individuals include substance abusers, intellectually disabled, developmentally disabled, and abused…

Health
8
Ozark Opportunities Inc

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,…

Community Improvement
9
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
10
Family Self Help Center Inc

A sanctuary for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and substance use disorders.

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11
Christian Social Services of Illinois

Caritas family solutions strengthens the social and emotional well-being of individuals and families in order to create healthy relationships, loving homes and strong communities.

Human Services
12
The Wichita Children's Home

To assure the safety and well-being of children and to create heathly families by providing: assessment and intervention services; a temporary home for children at risk of abuse, neglect, or homelessness; education, prevention and advocacy…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center and the most unlike its peers is Blake Wagner Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHousing & Homelessness Supp…Youth Sports ProgramsSenior Services CentersBusiness & Community Leader…Faith-Based Healthcare Syst…Professional & Trade Associ…Family Support and Crisis S…Regional Grantmaking & Phil…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr13%7%5–10yr17%14%10–20yr14%28%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr22%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr13%3%5–10yr17%11%10–20yr14%24%20–35yr12%22%35–55yr22%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/32
the rest of the field
13%
340/2,626

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARC OF THE OZARKS — $23,543 · OtherARC OF THE OZARKSOZARK SENIOR CENTER — $4,500 · OtherOZARK SENIOR CENTERENGAGE MOBILITY — $3,000 · OtherENGAGE MOBILITYOZARKS TEEN CHALLENGE — $2,500 · OtherSpringfield Symphony Association — $2,500 · OtherABUNDANT BLESSINGS — $2,000 · OtherOZARKS COUNSELING CENTER — $2,000 · OtherMERCY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $2,000 · OtherADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA — $2,000 · OtherTHE VICTIM CENTER — $2,000 · Other+8 more — $10,111 · Other+8 moreLOST & FOUND — $6,200 · Human ServicesLOST & FOUNDTHE KITCHEN INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesTHE KITCHEN INCOzarks Area Community Action Corporation — $5,000 · Human ServicesOzarks Area Community Action Corporat…LEAST OF THESE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesLEAST OF THESE INCPPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEED — $3,078 · Human ServicesPPS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN IN NEEDFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INCDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS — $2,500 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKSCare to Learn — $2,500 · Human ServicesCare to LearnGood Samaritan Boys Ranch — $2,250 · Human ServicesGood Samaritan Boys RanchFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER — $2,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesSMITTYS MIDWEST BOXING GYM & YOUTH CENTER INC — $5,072 · Recreation & SportsLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC — $2,500 · InternationalIPOURLIFE INC — $2,000 · InternationalCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC — $2,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $1,500 · Crime & LegalSWI Industrial Solutions Inc — $3,000 · EmploymentTRI-LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,800 · AnimalsBranson Humane Society — $1,000 · Animals
Other$56,154Human Services$37,528Recreation & Sports$5,072International$4,500Crime & Legal$3,500Employment$3,000Animals$2,800

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetSWI Industrial Solutions Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS — $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 budgetLIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC — $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 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 budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE USA — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRI-LAKES HUMANE SOCIETY — $1,800 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNABAS FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ST LOUIS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBranson Humane Society — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLAKE WAGNER FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 28% of budget
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.

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.

Stanley & Elaine Ball…Community Foundation …The Charlie & Mary Be…Ozarks Health Advocac…Robert M - Bobby - Al…Musgrave FoundationCommerce Bancshares F…Roy W Slusher Charita…Cook Family FoundationLarry P O'Reilly and …Rick and Marsha Floyd…The Hulston Family Fo…
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

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 Stephen & Helen G Sedora Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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