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United Way of the Ozarks Inc

United way ozarks region unites people, resources and ideas to enhance lives in the ozarks.

$821k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Youth Development$3.9MHuman Services$1.5MHealth$1.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$830kCommunity Improvement$728kEducation$658kCivil Rights$326kReligion$166kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $263k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $559k
$44,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC$120,000
COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI$100,000
HARMONY HOUSE$95,189
BETTY AND BOBBY ALLISON-OZARKS CONSELING CENTER$83,852
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP$82,776
CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER$77,115
I POUR LIFE$47,042
THE VICTIM CENTER INC$44,000
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES$35,000
KVC$35,000
GOOD DADS$25,000
DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS$23,883
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKS INC$19,500
OZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL$17,500
OZARKS FOOD HARVEST$15,642
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 (FY18–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GIFT OF HOPE: $5k → 14%GIFT OF HOPE: $3k → 14%THE WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER OF TANEY COUNTY: $4k → 14%THE WOMEN'S CRISIS CENTER OF TANEY COUNTY: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI: $183k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI: $172k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI: $168k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI: $157k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI: $101k → 15%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI: $49k → 15%OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $115k → 15%OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $110k → 15%OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $108k → 15%OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $103k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $95k → 15%OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $65k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $58k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $51k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $49k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $49k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $46k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $41k → 15%HARMONY HOUSE: $39k → 15%GOOD DADS: $37k → 15%GOOD DADS: $35k → 15%OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $31k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC (RARE BREED): $27k → 15%GOOD DADS: $25k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC (RARE BREED): $22k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC (RARE BREED): $17k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC (RARE BREED): $15k → 15%THE KITCHEN INC (RARE BREED): $12k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $51k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $49k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $47k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $47k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $45k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $42k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $32k → 15%DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $24k → 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.
$9.6M · 31 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
5

Total granted

$9.6M
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+56%

Still filing today

90%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyFood & 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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +322%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    6× · 2018–2023 · $830k · revenue +9%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $728k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • DN
    DIGNITY NOW INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +56% · 61% of their budget
  • SC
    STONE COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +69%
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
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.

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2
Ozark Regional Share and Care

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

Human Services
3
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
4
Family Service and Guidance Center of Topeka Inc

Family service and guidance center provides quality behavioral healthcare to children and families. vision: family service and guidance center shall be the premier, outcomes-focused children and family behavioral healthcare center that…

Health
5
Heart of Missouri Casa

Heart of missouri casa is an organization of volunteer advocates who stand up for abused and neglected children in court to help them find a safe and permanent home.

Crime & Legal
6
Youth Home Inc

To equip and empower youth, adults, and families to become healthier and contributing members of the community by providing compassionate emotional and behavioral intensive residential treatment & qualified residential treatment for ages…

Health
7
Legal Aid of Western Missouri

To improve the lives of those in need through quality legal assistance.

Crime & Legal
8
Opportunities Inc of Jefferson County

Opportunities, inc. of jefferson county provides services for individuals for the purpose of maximizing their success and enhancing their abilities to be independent, contributing members of the community.

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9
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
10
Safehouse Crisis Center Inc

To provide shelter and advocacy services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking in the 11 counties of southeast kansas.

Human Services
11
Ozarks New Hope Inc

Provide integrated, patient-centered health services designed to meet the needs of all patients, regardless of ability to pay; help the healthcare industry better serve patients & community by promoting public health; supporting…

Health
12
Family Advocacy and Community Training Inc

Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Violence Center; the most unlike its peers is The Caring People. 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

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 39 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $1,571,936 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INCTHE SALVATION ARMY: $773,074 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKS: $408,340 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKSOZARK TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #306: $403,661 · OtherOZARK TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #306COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INC: $275,230 · OtherCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF THE OZARKS INCGREAT CIRCLE: $207,175 · OtherLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI: $168,701 · OtherOZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL: $161,149 · Other+13 more: $534,504 · Other+13 moreAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $829,747 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross…OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $531,887 · Human ServicesOZARKS REGIONAL YMCAFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $427,943 · Human ServicesFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTERDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $338,212 · Human ServicesDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE…GOOD DADS INC: $96,850 · Human ServicesTHE KITCHEN INC: $92,982 · Human Services+2 more: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE VICTIM CENTER: $616,140 · HealthTHE VICTIM CENT…BETTY AND BOBBY ALLISON OZARKS COUNSELING CENTER: $601,265 · HealthBETTY AND BOBBY…Foundation for Springfield Public Schools: $116,627 · HealthFoundation for …+1 more: $3,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $727,544 · Community ImprovementGIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC: $383,769 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,925 · Youth DevelopmentCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $325,647 · Civil RightsOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $84,081 · PhilanthropyBREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS: $50,222 · Philanthropy
Other$4,503,770Human Services$2,331,621Health$1,337,532Community Improvement$727,544Youth Development$386,694Civil Rights$325,647Philanthropy$134,303

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $1,571,936 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $829,747 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC: $727,544 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetTHE VICTIM CENTER: $616,140 over 8y, 10% of budgetBETTY AND BOBBY ALLISON OZARKS COUNSELING CENTER: $601,265 over 8y, 15% of budgetOZARKS REGIONAL YMCA: $531,887 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE CENTER: $427,943 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE OZARKS: $408,340 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetOZARK TRAILS COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #306: $403,661 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF THE MISSOURI HEARTLAND INC: $383,769 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL CENTER OF THE OZARKS: $338,212 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SOUTHWEST MISSOURI: $325,647 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetGREAT CIRCLE: $207,175 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF MISSOURI: $168,701 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOZARKS LITERACY COUNCIL: $161,149 over 8y, 24% of budgetNAMI of Southwest Missouri Inc: $148,899 over 5y, 15% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SPRINGFIELD INC: $126,485 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for Springfield Public Schools: $116,627 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetGOOD DADS INC: $96,850 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetTHE KITCHEN INC: $92,982 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetOZARKS TECHNICAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $84,081 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetKVC BEHAVIORAL HEALTHCARE MISSOURI INC: $83,631 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS: $50,222 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetIPOURLIFE INC: $47,042 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC: $15,642 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Action Ministries: $13,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIFT OF HOPE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetELEVATE BRANSON: $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWomens Crisis Center of Taney County Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFaith Community Health DBA Hope Counseling Center: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDIGNITY NOW INC: $3,190 over 1y, 61% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE OZARKS: $2,925 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARING PEOPLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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 …Stanley & Elaine Ball…The Charlie & Mary Be…Roy W Slusher Charita…Robert M - Bobby - Al…Larry P O'Reilly and …Ozarks Health Advocac…Arvest FoundationMusgrave FoundationVeterans United Found…The Hulston Family Fo…The Herschend Family …
Community Foundation of the Ozarks IncMO59.5× affinity28 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 · Stanley & Elaine Ball Charitable Tr · The Charlie & Mary Beth O'Reilly Family Foundation · Roy W Slusher Charitable Foundation · Robert M - Bobby - Allison Charitable Tr · Larry P O'Reilly and Family Foundation · Ozarks Health Advocacy Foundation · Arvest Foundation · Musgrave Foundation · Veterans United Foundation · The Hulston Family Foundation · The Herschend Family 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 United Way of the Ozarks Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of the Ozarks Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 39 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 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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