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The Farber Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS CITY UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE & BIOSCIENCES | $200,000 |
| MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| NEOSHO AREA BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL FOUNDATION | $39,365 |
| TRI-STATE FAMILY YMCA | $25,000 |
| FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM | $21,000 |
| MISSOURI CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF 4 STATES | $15,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JASPER & NEWTON COUNTIES | $15,000 |
| GRANBY ECONOMIC PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT CO | $10,000 |
| NEOSHO R-5 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEOSHO ARTS COUNCIL | $7,000 |
| ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE FOUR STATES | $5,000 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE OF THE FOUR STATES | $5,000 |
| FRANK CHILDRESS RESERVATION PROPERTY committee | $5,000 |
| BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +69% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k 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
- TFTRI-STATE FAMILY YMCA6× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +125%
- MSMISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $57k · revenue +121%
- TFTALKINGTON FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- JRJOPLIN REGIONAL MEDICAL SHCOOL ALLIone grant, 2023 · $200k
- CNCARE NET PREGNANCY RESOURCE CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 improve the health of the communities we serve through contemporary, innovative, quality healthcare solutions.
Inspiring healthy living by providing exceptional health and life services for every person, every time.
Msma's mission is to serve its members through promotion of the science & art of medicine, protection of the health of the public & betterment of the medical profession in missouri.
To improve the economic prosperity and quality of life in the joplin region, and to be the principal advocate for, and provider of services to its business community
Methodist Medical Center provides quality healthcare, in alignment with Covenant Health's mission to serve the community by improving the quality of life through better health regardless of a patient's ability to pay.
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…
Mission is to preserve and advance the distinct philosophy and practice of osteopathic medicine in the state of Missouri and to advocate for the profession
An association providing community leadership and business advocacy sustaining economic vitality.
The Missouri Corn Growers Association is a grassroots organization directed by its members dedicated to increasing the profitability of corn production by developing and expanding corn markets; collecting and distributing information;…
To put the needs of the patient first by empowering a culture where caregivers bring their best, ensuring a healthier future for generations to come.
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 Freeman 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.
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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 95 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 Connect2Culture ↗
- Who funds Kansas City University ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI SOUTHERN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEOSHO AREA BUSINESS & INDUSTRIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROWDER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRANBY ECONOMIC PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds FREEMAN HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TALKINGTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF JASPER AND NEWTON COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEOSHO AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHFUL FRIENDS ANIMAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds McDonald County Historical Society ↗
- Who funds NEOSHO CROSSLINES MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK CHILDRESS RESERVE PROPERTY COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds FREEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
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: Arvest Foundation · Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Fredrick G and Rebekah B Hughes Charitable · Freeman Health System · Jean Jack and Mildred Lemons Charitable Trust · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Dawson Heritage Foundation 30535007936 · Mercy Health Southwest Missourikansas Communities · Cragin Joy Spiva Charitable Trust · Freeman Neosho Hospital Inc · Michael a Mary Louise & Christine L Glauber 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 The Farber Foundation 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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