Caring Communities Inc
Jefferson City, MO · EIN 46-0476950. Reported 47 grants totalling $2,339,827 to 40 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Caring Communities Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 40 distinct organizations, with 50% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 20% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,538 and $31,000; the smallest was $5,050 and the largest $472,875. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Global Orphan Project Inc | Kansas City, MO | $1,178,100 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Chapin Hall Center for Children | Chicago, IL | $204,752 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Good Dads Inc | Springfield, MO | $191,088 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture | Columbia, MO | $97,822 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| The Curators of the University of Missouri | Kansas City, MO | $84,905 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Curators of the University of Missouri | Columbia, MO | $77,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Therapy Paws | Jefferson Cty, MO | $67,575 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Area Resources for Community and Human Services | St Louis, MO | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Joplin Missouri | Joplin, MO | $32,613 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Madrid Co Human Resources Council Community Partnership | New Madrid, MO | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vision for Children at Risk Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Missouri - Columbia | Kansas City, MO | $29,805 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marionville R-9 | Marionville, MO | $19,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Missouri River Regional Library | Jefferson City, MO | $19,257 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Taneyville Rii | Taneyville, MO | $13,439 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Divine Holiness Outreach Ministry | Caruthersville, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Missouri Coalition for Primary Health Care | Jefferson Cty, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Springfield R-Xii School District | Springfield, MO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Guadalupe Educational System | Kansas City, MO | $9,950 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Hope Ministries | Sikeston, MO | $9,828 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Brookfield R-III School District | Brookfield, MO | $9,452 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Marionville R-Ix School District | Marionville, MO | $9,450 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Favored Foundation for Strengthening Families | Saint Louis, MO | $9,440 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Confluence Academy | St Louis, MO | $9,360 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fort Osage R-1 School District | Independence, MO | $9,300 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| East Newton County R-VI School District | Granby, MO | $9,268 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Twin Rivers R-X School District | Broseley, MO | $9,164 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Osage County R-I School Disctrict | Chamois, MO | $8,828 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Neosho School District | Neosho, MO | $8,538 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mississippi County Interagency Acouncil | East Prairie, MO | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rose of Sharon Ministries Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The School District of Springfield R12 | Springfield, MO | $7,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carrollton R-VII School District | Carrollton, MO | $7,898 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Boys and Girls Club of Jefferson City | Jefferson City, MO | $7,251 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Grand River Area Family Y M C a | Chillicothe, MO | $7,220 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Adair County Family YMCA Inc | Kirksville, MO | $7,010 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Operation Food Search Inc | Saint Louis, MO | $6,725 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Monett R-I | Monett, MO | $6,539 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Network for Strong Communities | Saint Louis, MO | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mexico Area Family YMCA Inc | Mexico, MO | $5,050 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
5 of 40 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The Global Orphan Project
Technology based platform built to bring children and families needs to the communities attention - Global Orphan Project
FOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR CHILDREN - Chapin Hall Center for Children
Community pathway to prevention services - The Curators of the University of Missouri
Senior Report and Kids Count Data - Therapy Paws
Provide specially trained canines - The University of Missouri - Columbia
Kids Count Program Director
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 40 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 12 | $391,955 | $9,700 |
| 2022 | 20 | $830,413 | $9,914 |
| 2023 | 15 | $1,117,459 | $28,600 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
91% of its giving went to organizations in Missouri. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available 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 grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Missouri.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Caring Communities Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 15 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 114 E High Street B Ste 202, Jefferson City, MO, 65101.
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