· Private foundation
The Hulston Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $630k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $405k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Kansas City Community Fdn | $300,000 |
| Cox Health Foundation | $55,000 |
| Univ MO Law School Foundation | $50,000 |
| Ozarks Technical Community College | $50,000 |
| Isabel's House Crisis Nursery | $50,000 |
| Springfield Victory Mission | $50,000 |
| Ozarks Food Harvest | $50,000 |
| Kanbe's Markets | $50,000 |
| CASA of Southwest Missouri | $50,000 |
| Amethyst Place | $30,000 |
| Salvation Army | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| James River Basin Partnership | $25,000 |
| Pete's Garden | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $977k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 17 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $253k 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
- TSTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI3× · 2019–2022 · $580k · revenue +94%
- CFCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $477k · revenue +36%
- OFOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC4× · 2020–2024 · $170k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- FCFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INCone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +12%
- CMChildren's Miracle Networkone grant, 2020 · $50k
- VCVeterans Community Programone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.
Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…
Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need
To provide people in the Kansas City area affected by poverty with services and opportunities that encourage self-confidence, meet the needs of today, and provide the tools for future self-sufficiency.
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…
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
Front Porch Alliance works together with residents of Kansas City, Missouris eastside and urban core to meet their changing needs at home and in school.
Our Mission is to reach out to those in need in our area by providing healthy and nuritious food and other necessities to families and individuals who cannot afford them. In addition, the Pantry refers families to other agencies which can…
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…
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,…
Following Jesus Christ, Flourish stands with our neighbors in need through our food pantry, heals through relationships of reconciliation with our transitional housing program and life skills classes and invests in our community through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center and the most unlike its peers is Earth Day Springfield Festival. 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 30 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 100 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 Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds COXHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch ↗
- Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
- Who funds PETES GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES RIVER BASIN PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture ↗
- Who funds FOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POLK COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation ↗
- Who funds RIVER OF REFUGE ↗
- Who funds LOST & FOUND ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · The Sunderland Foundation · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · Musgrave Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Arvest Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Ozarks Food Harvest Inc · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers 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 Hulston 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.
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.