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The Herschend Family Foundation
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.
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 $10k32 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $250k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Elevate Branson | $160,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $49,981 |
| Miracle of Nazareth International Foundation Inc | $30,000 |
| Heart Support | $25,000 |
| K-Life | $25,000 |
| Younglife | $20,000 |
| Special Operations Care Fund | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Harvesters Community Food | $13,000 |
| 1st Presbyterian Church of Branson | $12,000 |
| John Brown University | $10,000 |
| Convoy of Hope | $10,000 |
| The Lodge Ministries | $10,000 |
| Ozark Mountain Legacy | $10,000 |
| Como Mobile Aid Collective | $8,000 |
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, $329k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
94 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 66 since wound down; 17 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- EBELEVATE BRANSON8× · 2017–2025 · $944k · revenue +154%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES7× · 2017–2023 · $97k · revenue +120%
- YLYOUNG LIFE7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- TNTHE NAZARETH PROJECTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.0M · revenue +378%
- COCity of Rockaway Beachone grant, 2019 · $20k
- TKTRI-COUNTY K-LIFEone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Feeding the spiritual and physical hunger, especially in at-risk children.
Prevent homelessness. promote self-sufficiency and dignity.
To be the love of christ to uganda's orphaned and vulnerable children, equipping them to become authentic godly leaders that transform generations
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
Sharing Christ's Passion for the world by serving the most vulnerable through national churches and leaders.
Helping men, women and children by hosting educational conferences, facilitating healing and freedom through support groups, trauma recovery prayer ministry and licensed counseling appointmnts. they seek to redeem lives, restore families…
Miracle hill ministries is committed to life transformation for children and adults experiencing homelessness. more information and program outcomes may be found at www.miraclehill.org.
Harvest Bridge equips South Asian Christians to serve their communities more effectively. With our assistance, people and communities in South Asia are transformed by the love of Christ.
To glorify the Lord Jesus Christ by ministering to orphans around the world by meeting spiritual, physical, emotional, and educational needs.
Restore hope, purpose, passion and relationships among Christian leaders who are making an impact around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Osage Arts Community Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 24. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 253 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE NAZARETH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE BRANSON ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS CARE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ONES MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER DOLLAR CITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Faith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds LOST & FOUND ↗
- Who funds JOHN BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ozark Mountain Legacy ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GET VOLUNTEERING ↗
- Who funds GENERATION NEXT INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE OF NAZARETH INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SKAGGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Christian Action Ministries ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HONOR FLIGHT OF THE OZARKS ↗
- Who funds HEARTSUPPORT 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 · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · United Way of the Ozarks Inc · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · Cook Family Foundation · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Missouri Sports Hall of Fame · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Servant Foundation · Commerce Bancshares 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 Herschend Family 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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.
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