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THE MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE
Provide intercollegiate athletics a proper role in education, to organize, control and supervise intercollegiate athletics among the institutions of the conference and to establish standards and promote scholarship and sportsmanship among the conference members.
$1.7M
Granted FY2023
10
Grants
4
Communities
$335k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.
Education$8.8M
02FY2023 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $598k
$185,905
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY$334,673
- MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY$263,035
- SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY$249,821
- INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY$202,363
- UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA$185,905
- VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY$124,623
- DRAKE UNIVERSITY$97,636
- UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE$95,583
- BRADLEY UNIVERSITY$58,597
- LOYALA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO$55,049
02The need
03
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 12%. 79% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.8M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
0
Total granted
$8.8M
$0
Still filing today
100%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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
- MSMISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +36%
INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +69%- UOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · $1.0M · revenue +164%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Upper Iowa University
Upper iowa university provides quality educational opportunities accessible through varied delivery methods to inspire success and empower lives.
Education
2
University of Illinois Alumni
The mission of the university of illinois alumni association is to enhance and advance the relationship between the university of illinois and all of its alumni.
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3
St Louis University
To seek excellence in teaching, research, health care, and service to the community as guided by the spiritual and intellectual ideals of the society of jesus.
Education
4
Illinois Institute of Technology
To provide distinctive and relevant education in an environment of scientific, technological, and professional knowledge creation and innovation.
Education
5
University of Illinois Foundation
The University of Illinois Foundation's corporate mission is to advance the interests and welfare of the University of Illinois. As stated in its Articles of Incorporation, the role of the Foundation is procuring private support on behalf…
Education
6
University of Indianapolis
The mission of the University of Indianapolis is to prepare its graduates for effective membership in the societies in which they live and serve, and for excellence and leadership in their lives.
Education
7
Drury University
Drury University is an independent university, church-related, grounded in the liberal arts tradition and committed to personalized education in a community of scholars who value the arts of teaching and learning.
Education
8
National Louis University
Nlu is an inclusive community providing educational opportunities to inspire & empower learners to prepare for & advance in meaningful lives and productive careers.
Education
9
Iowa State University Foundation
Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance iowa state university's land-grant ideals.
Education
10
Indiana University Foundation
To maximize private philanthropic support for Indiana University
Education
11
University of Chicago
The mission of the university of chicago has been to sustain at the highest level of excellence, the communication of knowledge, the creation of knowledge and the fostering of a dynamic community of scholars and students.
Education
12
State University of Iowa Foundation
To advance the university of iowa through engagement and philanthropy.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missouri State University Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Bradley University. 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
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$8,791,782
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 ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DRAKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE ↗
- Who funds BRADLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYALA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
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.
Ge FoundationCT12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Ge Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation THE MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~2 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 376033943 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 72% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Missouri Valley Conference?
Find your warmest path to The Missouri Valley Conference through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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