· Private foundation
Jennings Family Foundation The
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES | $52,500 |
| WATERED GARDENS | $40,000 |
| LIFE OF HOPE MINISTERIES | $30,000 |
| ASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES | $20,000 |
| GOD'S RESORT | $15,000 |
| BOY'S AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI | $10,000 |
| SOULS HARBOR OF AMERICA | $7,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES3× · 2023–2025 · $128k · revenue +5%
- WGWATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +45%
- LOLIFE OF HOPE MINISTRIES5× · 2021–2025 · $98k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CCCROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREAone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +20%
- RORMHC of the Four Statesone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Glorify and serve god by providing meals for hungry men, women, and children, emergency shelter and transition to independence for homeless men, and spiritual hope through jesus christ.
Hope gospel rescue mission is a christ centered ministry in york, nebraska. helping the hurting & homeless in the name of jesus christ.
We provide a faith-based recovery program for men, women, and children who need help overcoming life's challenges.
Redemption road provides housing, re-entry and transition services for men and women coming out of the criminal justice system. the mission is to provide to provide christ centered, bible based recovery from drug and alcohol abuse, damaged…
A faith-based, sober living house, for men who are serious about maintaining a life of sobriety from addictive substances.
A christian church which provides food clothing shelter and spiritual guidance to the homeless and also to provide inpatient life transformation programs
Provide a place of communion and growth in personal relationship with jesus christ.
Provide housing, food and rehabilitation
Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless
To provide a shelter and a place of hope where people can recover from homelessness, pain and addiction, restoring their dignity and improving their lives.
Food and shelter to the homeless and groceries/clothing assistance to poverty stricken households
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crosslines Churches of the Joplin Area and the most unlike its peers is Souls Harbor of America Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE FOUR STATES ↗
- Who funds WATERED GARDENS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds LIFE OF HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds ASCENT RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds Gods Resort Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSLINES CHURCHES OF THE JOPLIN AREA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF JOPLIN ↗
- Who funds SOULS HARBOR OF AMERICA 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 · W R Corley Memorial Trust CO SMB Trust Services · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Jennings Family Foundation The 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.