06/17/2026
🎉🎉We are so excited and incredibly grateful to share this news! Yesterday we attended the Jeannette L. Musgrave Foundation Grant Awards Ceremony at Community Foundation of the Ozarks and received the Resilient Families Grant for $100,000 to support our Parent Support and Prevention Programs! This is the first award of a three-year grant award for $273,868! This grant will allow us to work closely with families offering support and education to prevent children from entering foster care, support kinship families who are caring for children, and offer parenting classes. PSP has a 98% success rate in preventing out-of-home placement and thanks to the Musgrave Foundation, more children in the Springfield community will remain in their own homes with their families! Special THANK YOU to the Musgrave Distribution Committee and Community Foundation of the Ozarks for the opportunity to continue keeping children safe and families together! 💛💚💙
💚 More than $1.01 million granted in one day!
We're so grateful for our partnership with the Jeannette L. Musgrave Foundation and U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management, with whom we presented grants totaling $1,015,010 on June 16 at 300 South Jefferson. These grants comprise three high-impact, multi-year grant programs and support for capital and special projects in the Springfield metro area.
The grant recipients and first-year amounts for the “Resilient Families” program are:
• The Child Advocacy Center, Inc.: $100,000 to expand Protecting Our Youth, a prevention initiative designed to shift social norms, empower adults to take protective action, and strengthen families as a core strategy for reducing child physical and sexual abuse.
• FosterAdopt Connect: $100,000 to expand and strengthen its prevention-focused services to keep children safely in their homes and out of the foster care system.
• Harmony House: $100,000 to launch Next Gen Prevention, a youth-focused education program to address relationship violence during the critical period when individuals begin engaging in romantic relationships.
The grant recipients and second-year amounts for the “Keys to Housing” program are:
• Crosslines Community Outreach: $25,000 to bolster emergency assistance funding that supports at-risk families with rental assistance, home repairs and application costs for low-income housing.
• Drew Lewis Foundation Inc.: $100,000 to expand the impact of the Blue House Project by renovating houses and providing affordable homeownership opportunities for at least 10 families in the Grant Beach area in northwest Springfield.
• empower: abilities: $85,000 to help individuals with disabilities maintain stable housing and foster long-term independence by providing financial support for rental assistance, move-in expenses, home modifications and essential housing-related costs.
• PFLAG Springfield/SWMO: $85,000 to launch an initiative that addresses the housing crisis impacting LGBTQIA+ people by hiring a housing coordinator, collaborating with Ekklesia Multi-Cultural House to provide transitional housing opportunities, and to develop and pilot long-term, scalable housing models.
The grant recipients and third-year amounts for the “Opportunities to Thrive” program are:
• The GLO Center: $45,000 to support the salary of the community services specialist, a role that will create programs and partnerships to fill gaps in services to LGBTQIA+ people.
• Ozarks Literacy Council: $30,086 to hire a part-time social media manager and to update its website, donor software and email platform.
• Springfield Community Gardens: $19,924 to hire a strategic planning consultant, purchase food hub management software and provide farmers with agricultural training.
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield and Ozarks Food Harvest are also part of the “Opportunities to Thrive” cohort. Boys & Girls Clubs received $120,000 to support organizational restructuring, talent investment and development strategy, while Ozarks Food Harvest received $131,122 for improvements to its Full Circle Gardens program.
Total grants for all Musgrave Multi-Year Impact programs could ultimately exceed $2.2 million.
The CFO and Musgrave Foundation also announced grants from an invitation-only program to support capital and special projects:
• Care to Learn: $100,000 to support the Caring Starts Here capital campaign.
• Community Partnership of the Ozarks: $125,000 to install a playground at the O'Reilly Center for Hope.
• Crosslines Community Outreach: $20,000 to support the Next Levell Campaign.
• East Grand Community Services: $30,000 to sustain and strengthen after-school programming for children in the Bingham and Pittman elementary neighborhoods.
• Springfield-Greene County Library Foundation: $50,000 to support the Teen Space at the new Republic Branch Library.
Learn more about the Musgrave Foundation, the Multi-Year Grant program and these projects at https://www.cfozarks.org/resources/cfo-musgrave--2026-multi-year-grants.
