Missouri · Community foundation
Truman Lake Community Foundation
Improve henry county conditions.
- $543k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $518k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $14,682
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $145,393
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Truman Lake Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $518k | 53% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.8M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $523k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $244k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $86k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $92k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $130k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $70k | 40% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton United Methodist Church | $378,437 | 9 | n/a |
| The Samaritan Center Inc | $232,563 | 9 | 11% |
| Education Foundation for Clinton Students Inc | $200,427 | 3 | 19% |
| Clinton School District | $91,467 | 4 | n/a |
| Henry County Historical Society | $69,404 | 5 | 31% |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $63,822 | 6 | n/a |
| Clinton Animal Rescue Endeavor | $53,545 | 8 | 5% |
| Clinton Scout Center Inc | $36,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Clinton Christian Academy | $26,294 | 4 | 1% |
| Clinton Main Street Inc | $25,275 | 2 | 36% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinton United Methodist Church | $378,437 | 9 | n/a |
| The Samaritan Center Inc | $232,563 | 9 | 11% |
| Education Foundation for Clinton Students Inc | $200,427 | 3 | 19% |
| Clinton School District | $91,467 | 4 | n/a |
| Henry County Historical Society | $69,404 | 5 | 31% |
| Trinity Lutheran Church | $63,822 | 6 | n/a |
| Clinton Animal Rescue Endeavor | $53,545 | 8 | 5% |
| Clinton Scout Center Inc | $36,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Clinton Christian Academy | $26,294 | 4 | 1% |
| Clinton Main Street Inc | $25,275 | 2 | 36% |
| First Baptist Church | $16,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Holy Rosary Catholic Church | $10,580 | 1 | n/a |
| Central Methodist University | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Calvary Chapel Truman Lake | $6,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Clinton Friends of the Parks | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc · The Gus S Wetzel Family Foundation · Lindon Q Skidmore Charitable Trust · David & Shirley Lowe Family Fdn 14537900 · The Mary Jo & Kent Cable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Truman Lake Community Foundation
- How much does Truman Lake Community Foundation give?
- Truman Lake Community Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $517,982, out of $542,982 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Truman Lake Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (34%), Human Services (22%), Religion (19%).
- Who are Truman Lake Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Clinton United Methodist Church ($378k), The Samaritan Center Inc ($233k), Education Foundation for Clinton Students Inc ($200k).
- Does Truman Lake Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Truman Lake Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Ozarks Inc, The Gus S Wetzel Family Foundation, Lindon Q Skidmore Charitable Trust.
- Where is Truman Lake Community Foundation based?
- Truman Lake Community Foundation is based in MO.
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