· Community foundation
The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc
Perpetually improve the quality of life in northwest missouri by promoting and facilitating charitable giving.
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 $10k14 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $349k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $854k
- $250k+2 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BESSEMER TRUST | $10,607,782 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| LADIES UNION BENEVOLENT ASSOC | $174,200 |
| SAVANNAH RIII SCHOOL | $125,700 |
| NODAWAY COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS SENA | $103,945 |
| CATHOLICS FOR ST JOSEPH | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | $80,000 |
| SAVANNAH RIII HIGHSCHOOL TURF FUND | $75,000 |
| NEW NODAWAY HUMANE SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| MOSAIC LIFE CARE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| HOUSING IMPROVEMENTS INITIATIVE | $60,000 |
| HILLYARD TECHNICAL CENTER | $36,868 |
| ALBRECHTKEMPER MUSEUM OF ART | $33,000 |
| LEADERSHIP NORTHWEST MISSOURI | $30,000 |
| ST JOSEPH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $26,005 |
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, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 46 since wound down; 14 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, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11M 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
- NNNEW NODAWAY HUMANE SOCIETY5× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +56% · 74% of their budget
- LULadies Union Benevolent Association5× · 2020–2025 · $859k · revenue +3%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE FREE CLINIC INC4× · 2019–2025 · $668k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- HUHUFFMAN UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $472k
- ALANONYMOUS - LESS THAN 5Kone grant, 2018 · $348k
- SRSAVANNAH R-III SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $277k
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.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
To build relationships with alumni and friends in order to secure private funds and other resources for the benefit of the university of southern mississippi (usm). the foundation receives, invests and distributes private gifts in support…
The mission of the foundation is to improve the health and well-being of the communities served by jefferson hospital through engagement, community-driven research and grantmaking. there are three grantmaking priorities focused on the…
The memorial unions function as a concessionaire to the university of kansas for the purpose of operating various enterprises within the kansas union building, the burge union, the debruce center, residential dining halls, and other…
Fundraising for capital improvements, scholarships, and other healthcare programs for missouri delta medical center.
To strengthen the University and communities that have touched the lives of KU alumni and friends, the mission of The KU Endowment Charitable Gift Fund is to receive and administer gifts and bequests to further the charitable objectives of…
Kansas wesleyan university is a liberal arts college that promotes and integrates academic excellence, spiritual development, personal well-being, and social responsibility.
To own and operate a museum, curating antiques and collectibles, that provides a gateway to the past that educates, entertains, and inspires lifelong learning
Title holding company for an exempt organization.
To provide financial support to missouri southern state university from donations from the public for scholarships, awards to students, departmental support, cultural activities, general college support and faculty development.
The university of iowa facilities corporation acquires and holds property for the benefit and use of the university of iowa.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Central Missouri Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Saving Grace Animal Sanctuary. 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 145 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 NEW NODAWAY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BUCHANAN COUNTY AGRI-BUSINESS EXPO CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Ladies Union Benevolent Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FREE CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PONY EXPRESS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI WESTERN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVANNAH R-III SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWEST MISSOURIINC ↗
- Who funds Nodaway County Senior Citizens Senate Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TRUST FOR TRENTON HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Heartland Foundation ↗
- Who funds PONY EXPRESS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALBRECHT-KEMPER MUSEUM OF ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINNIE CLINE PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ST JOSEPH MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds HOUSING IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES OF EXCELLENCE 2026 INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL SHELTER OF ST JOSEPH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NE KANSAS AND NW MISSOURI 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: Harold P Dugdale Charitable Trust · Wm and Margaret Schreiber Char Tr · Harry and Helena Messick Charitable Tr · Heartland Regional Medical Center · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Norma J and William J Kenney Charitable · Gary G Taylor Charitable Tr · Hallmark Corporate Foundation · Truman Heartland Community Foundation · The Depriest Family Foundation Inc · Spratt Leah Charitable Trust
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 The Community Foundation of Northwest Missouriinc 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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.