Stafford Family Charitable Trust
Columbia, MO · EIN 43-6337559. Reported 41 grants totalling $510,112 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Stafford Family Charitable Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $6,500 and $15,000; the smallest was $2,112 and the largest $37,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boone County Nature School | Columbia, MO | $112,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Columbia College | Columbia, MO | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kopn | Columbia, MO | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Serve Inc | Fulton, MO | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Do Something Right Now Inc | Columbia, MO | $20,140 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Como Mobile Aid Collective | Columbia, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Community Builders Development Corp | Columbia, MO | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Great Circle | Columbia, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Show-Me Central Habitat for Humanity | Columbia, MO | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Local Motion | Columbia, MO | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| YMCA of Callaway County | Fulton, MO | $11,764 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tryps Children's Theater | Columbia, MO | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence | Jefferson City, MO | $10,625 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Audrain County Shelter Resource Coalition | Mexico, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Missouri Humane Society | Columbia, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Central Mo Diabetic Childrens Camp Inc | Columbia, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Great River Council Boy Scouts of America | Columbia, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cedar Creek Therapeutic Riding Center | Columbia, MO | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Food Bank of Central Missouri | Columbia, MO | $8,356 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Saving Kidsight | Columbia, MO | $8,150 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Love Coffee | Columbia, MO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Love Columbia | Columbia, MO | $7,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Caring Hearts and Hands of Columbia | Columbia, MO | $7,159 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fresh Start Sober Living Program | Columbia, MO | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Columbia Neighborhood Watch | Columbia, MO | $6,340 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charirties | Columbia, MO | $6,198 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boone County Historical Society | Columbia, MO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | Columbia, MO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Spectrum Health Care | Columbia, MO | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kbia | Columbia, MO | $3,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Our House | Fulton, MO | $2,518 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Nora Stewart Early Learning Center | Columbia, MO | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Loaves and Fishes Soup Kitchen | Maryland Heights, MO | $2,112 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
5 of 33 (15%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 25%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Boone County Nature School
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN 4 YEAR PLEDGE - Serve Inc
SECURITY SYSTEM FOR NEW FACILITY - Kopn
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN 3 YEAR PLEDGE - Tryps Children's Theater
CAPITAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION BLUE PRINTS FOR FUTURE - Do Something Right Now Inc
INSULATION, WATER HEATER, & GAS FURNACE - Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence
TECHNICAL ITEMS FOR TRAINING & EDUCATION PROJECT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 24 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 15 | $128,802 | $7,250 |
| 2022 | 12 | $141,698 | $9,075 |
| 2023 | 8 | $119,000 | $12,500 |
| 2024 | 6 | $120,612 | $17,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Missouri.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Stafford Family Charitable Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1867, Columbia, MO, 65205. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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