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The Hulston Family Foundation at a glance

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The Hulston 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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$417k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.9MHuman Services$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MHealth$1.1MFood & Nutrition$774kEducation$443kYouth Development$430kHousing & Shelter$410kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $300k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $425k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Cox Health Foundation$416,667
Salvation Army$400,000
Greater Kansas City Community Fdn$300,000
Community Foundation of the Ozarks$225,000
Ozarks Technical Community College$50,000
Veterans Community Project$50,000
Univ MO Law School Foundation$50,000
Ozarks Food Harvest$50,000
Heart of America Shakespeare Festiv$25,000
Amethyst Place$25,000
Reach out and Read KC$25,000
Pete's Garden$25,000
Shepherd's Center of Kansas City$25,000
Kansas City Community Gardens$25,000
Harvesters Community Food Network$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.0M) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Least of These: $30k → 8%Good Samaritan Boy's Ranch: $50k → 18%Least of These: $25k → 8%Good Samaritan Boy's Ranch: $35k → 18%Least of These: $20k → 8%Good Samaritan Boy's Ranch: $25k → 18%Least of These: $20k → 8%Synergy Services: $15k → 8%Lead to Read KC: $10k → 15%Drew Lewis Foundation: $25k → 15%Camp Encourage: $6k → 15%Ozarks Area Community Action Corp: $10k → 15%Ozarks Area Community Action Corp: $10k → 15%Ozarks Area Community Action Corp: $10k → 15%Ozarks Area Community Action Corp: $10k → 15%Dogwood Ranch: $25k → 15%Dogwood Ranch: $24k → 15%Lost and Found Grief Center: $15k → 15%Better Life in Recovery: $15k → 15%Harmony House: $15k → 15%Better Life in Recovery: $15k → 15%Lost and Found Grief Center: $12k → 15%Youth Volunteer Corps of Greater KC: $15k → 15%Lost and Found Grief Center: $10k → 15%Youth Volunteer Corps of Greater KC: $10k → 15%SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging: $25k → 15%American Red Cross: $20k → 15%Generations Village: $25k → 15%SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging: $25k → 15%SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging: $25k → 15%SeniorAge Area Agency on Aging: $25k → 15%American Red Cross: $10k → 15%Foster Adopt Connect: $55k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $50k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $50k → 15%Mother's Refuge KC: $10k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $25k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $25k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $25k → 15%The Kitchen Inc: $25k → 15%Pete's Garden: $25k → 15%Pete's Garden: $25k → 15%Pete's Garden: $25k → 15%Pete's Garden: $15k → 15%Springfield Victory Mission: $15k → 15%Pete's Garden: $10k → 15%Guadalupe Centers: $10k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 60 repeat orgs$757k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

60 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
38

Total granted

$7.0M
$712k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+12%

Still filing today

67%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEnvironmentFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CF
    COXHEALTH FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $893k · revenue +113%
  • TS
    THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI
    3× · 2019–2022 · $580k · revenue +94%
  • OF
    OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $240k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +12%
  • CM
    Children's Miracle Network
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • VC
    Veterans Community Program
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri

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…

Food & Nutrition
2
Kids Win Missouri

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…

Human Services
3
Cultivate Kansas City Inc

Grow food, farms and community in support of a sustainable, healthy and local food system.

Food & Nutrition
4
Urban Harvest Stl

Urban Harvest STL builds community around inclusive and resilient local food systems.

Food & Nutrition
5
Freedom House Ministries

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…

Education
6
Ozark Regional Share and Care

Provide basic human services such as food, clothing, shelter, medical, etc. for local people in need

Human Services
7
Forward Through Ferguson

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…

Civil Rights
8
Arc of the Ozarks

To be a leader in service delivery for persons with disabilities by providing an array of supports and services to integrate them into their communities and to enhance the quality of their lives.

—
9
Cross-Lines Community Outreach Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Front Porch Alliance - Kansas City Inc

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.

Community Improvement
11
Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas

To provide dynamic, culturally-sensitive, high quality behavioral healthcare to residents of chase, coffey, greenwood, lyon, morris, osage and wabaunsee counties in the most effective, caring and efficient manner.

Health
12
North Central Kansas Housing Opportunities Inc
Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fosteradopt Connect Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 65 of the 105 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/65
Grantees still filing
47/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Greater Kansas City Community Foundation: $2,360,000 · PhilanthropyGreater Kansas City Community FoundationCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $1,085,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INCCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION: $893,167 · PhilanthropyCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropySALVATION ARMY: $640,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $580,000 · OtherTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURIUniv MO Law School Foundation: $450,000 · OtherUniv MO Law School FoundationThe Rabbit Hole Museum: $325,000 · OtherThe Rabbit Hole MuseumOzarks Technical Community College: $275,000 · OtherOzarks Technical Community CollegeRiver Relief Inc dba MO River Relie: $180,000 · Other+61 more: $2,114,560 · Other+61 moreTHE KITCHEN INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesTHE KITCHE…Good Samaritan Boys Ranch: $110,000 · Human ServicesGood Samar…SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $100,000 · Human ServicesSENIORAGE …PETES GARDEN: $100,000 · Human ServicesPETES GARD…LEAST OF THESE INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesLEAST OF T…SPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGFIEL…FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesFOSTERADOP…DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION: $49,000 · Human ServicesOzarks Area Community Action Corporation: $40,000 · Human ServicesLOST & FOUND: $37,000 · Human Services+11 more: $201,000 · Human Services+11 moreOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $240,000 · Food & NutritionHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $177,500 · Food & NutritionKANBE'S MARKETS: $125,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionMissouri Prairie Foundation: $90,000 · EnvironmentTHE JAMES RIVER BASIN PARTNERSHIP: $57,500 · EnvironmentColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $53,000 · EnvironmentKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $35,000 · EnvironmentEARTH DAY SPRINGFIELD FESTIVAL: $10,000 · EnvironmentAmethyst Place Inc: $190,000 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $25,000 · HealthKANSAS CITY FREE EYE CLINIC: $20,000 · HealthVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $175,000 · Public Benefit
Philanthropy$4,348,167Other$4,564,560Human Services$1,002,000Food & Nutrition$592,500Environment$245,500Health$235,000Public Benefit$175,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Kansas City Community Foundation: $2,360,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC: $1,085,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCOXHEALTH FOUNDATION: $893,167 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetTHE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI: $580,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $240,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAmethyst Place Inc: $190,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK: $177,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT: $175,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $150,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $125,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetKANBE'S MARKETS: $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGood Samaritan Boys Ranch: $110,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPETES GARDEN: $100,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC: $100,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLEAST OF THESE INC: $95,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC: $90,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMissouri Prairie Foundation: $90,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE JAMES RIVER BASIN PARTNERSHIP: $57,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC: $55,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetColumbia Center for Urban Agriculture: $53,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD EQUALITY INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $50,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetRIVER OF REFUGE: $50,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetPOLK COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE: $46,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetOzarks Area Community Action Corporation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOST & FOUND: $37,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSPARKWHEEL INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKANSAS CITY COMMUNITY GARDENS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLITERACY KANSAS CITY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY CLINIC OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $34,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETTER LIFE IN RECOVERY INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HAVEN OF SOUTHWEST MISSO: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWONDERSCOPE INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGenerations Village: $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDIAPER BANK OF THE OZARKS: $25,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS GROW CORP: $25,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetDREW LEWIS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetUNION STATION KANSAS CITY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Volunteer Corps: $25,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRESTART INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKS: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 COXHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds Amethyst Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds VETERANS COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds ORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds KANBE'S MARKETS ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Boys Ranch ↗
  • Who funds SENIORAGE AREA AGENCY ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds PETES GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS NURSERY OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAST OF THESE INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGFIELD VICTORY MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Missouri Prairie Foundation ↗
  • 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 HEART OF AMERICA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds RIVER OF REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds DOGWOOD RANCH CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds POLK COUNTY HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Community Foundation …Commerce Bancshares F…The Charlie & Mary Be…The Sunderland Founda…Stanley & Elaine Ball…Musgrave FoundationGreater Kansas City C…Arvest FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Ozarks Food Harvest I…Larry P O'Reilly and …Oppenstein Brothers F…
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO57.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hulston Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hulston Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 105 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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