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Tua J Elizabeth McCain Charitable

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$102k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Animals$266kFood & Nutrition$184kYouth Development$131kReligion$116kHuman Services$99kHousing & Shelter$35k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OZARKS FOOD HARVEST$30,000
SOUTHWEST MISSOURI HUMANE SOCIETY$22,050
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS SPRINGFIELD$20,000
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES$20,000
CROSSLINES - COUNCIL OF CHURCHES$10,000
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 (FY17–20, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CARE TO LEARN: $10k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $8k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $8k → 15%CARE TO LEARN: $7k → 15%HELP GIVE HOPE: $9k → 15%HELP GIVE HOPE: $9k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $8k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$810k · 11 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$810k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+46%

Still filing today

55%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionOther
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

  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI
    9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +23%
  • OF
    OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $184k · revenue +69%
  • CT
    Care to Learn
    4× · 2017–2020 · $32k · revenue +298%

Funded once

  • FV
    FAMILY VIOLENCE CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +46%
  • S
    SNAP
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
Safe Harbor Animal Sanctuary

Protect and rescue abandoned and at-risk animals.

Animals
2
Marion County Humane Society

The marion county humane society was established for the purpose of providing temporary care and housing of stray or homeless dogs and cats, to assist in the return of lost dogs and cats to their owners, to provide a means of finding new…

Animals
3
Heartland Humane Society of Missouri

Heartland Humane Society of Missouri is a 501 c3 non profit group of dedicated foster homes that gives abandoned abused and unwanted animals another chance for loving permanent homes through our adoption program following the no-kill…

Animals
4
Safe Animal Shelter of Orange Park

The mission of safe animal shelter is to provide a temporary safe haven for abused, abandoned, lost and unwanted cats and dogs until adopted into a permanent home, and to advocate spay/neuter as the only means to control animal…

Animals
5
Pound Pets Inc

Animal Rescue - finding homes for abandoned animals in Granite City, spaying and neutering stray animals and feral cats

Animals
6
Pleasants County Humane Society Inc

Shelter & loving care for strays

Recreation & Sports
7
Heartland Humane Society Ltd

Heartland humane society is a no-kill shelter for dogs and cats. the mission is to provide temporary shelter and care to homeless/lost animals, to educate the public on proper care of animals, and to promote neuter and spay programs.

Animals
8
Washington County Humane Society

None

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9
Hart

Animal shelter and rescue

Animals
10
Hope Fur Paws Rescue

To help injured, abandoned and unwanted animals. We provide food, vet care that includes heartworm prevention and spay or neuter services, shelter and anything else needed.

Animals
11
Jay County Humane Society Inc

The jay county humane society is a limited admissions shelter committed to finding good homes for stray, abandoned, mis-treated and unwanted animals.

Animals
12
Humane Society of Hardy County Inc

The Humane Society Hardy County strives reduce feral animal populations while enhancing the health of our communities and providing for those animals that may be adopted, a safe, nurturing, and healthy environment.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center; the most unlike its peers is Spay and Neuter Assistance Program. 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

8 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. 8 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS SPRINGFIELD: $130,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS SPRINGFIELDCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INC: $115,500 · OtherCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INCPRESBY CHIL HOMES & SERV OF MOTO: $34,500 · OtherPRESBY CHIL HOMES & SERV OF MOTOSAAF HOUSE: $21,500 · OtherSAAF HOUSE+3 more: $21,500 · Other+3 moreHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $235,050 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURICastaway Animals Rescue Effort: $27,000 · AnimalsCastaway Animals Rescue Effort+1 more: $2,500 · AnimalsOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $183,500 · Food & NutritionOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INCCare to Learn: $31,500 · Human ServicesHELP GIVE HOPE: $18,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $8,000 · Human Services
Other$323,500Animals$264,550Food & Nutrition$183,500Human Services$57,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $235,050 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $183,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCare to Learn: $31,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCastaway Animals Rescue Effort: $27,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPAY AND NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $2,500 over 2y, 0.6% 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 HUMANE SOCIETY OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds Care to Learn ↗
  • Who funds Castaway Animals Rescue Effort ↗
  • Who funds HELP GIVE HOPE ↗
  • Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOMES AND SERVICES OF MISSOURI ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SPAY AND NEUTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗

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 of the Ozarks IncMO17.5× affinity6 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 · The Turner Family Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Cook Family Foundation · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Giddens Family Foundation · CS&M Foundation · Risdal Family Foundation Inc · Bee Payne-Stewart Foundation · Rick and Marsha Floyd Foundation · Ozarks Health Advocacy 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 Tua J Elizabeth McCain Charitable funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tua J Elizabeth McCain Charitable. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 14 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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