Dec. 11, 2025
Grants support health care, education and low-income families
In partnership with the Jeannette L. Musgrave Foundation and U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management, the Community Foundation of the Ozarks granted $542,500 today to 44 nonprofits through several programs. The grants, presented at Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield’s new Risdal Family Teen Center, continue the long legacy of support for Springfield-area causes established by the late Mrs. Musgrave.
Jerry Redfern Grants
Named in memory of the Musgrave Foundation’s longtime manager, the grants, totaling $292,500, will support operating expenses for nonprofits with missions that align with the Musgrave Foundation’s grantmaking priorities of health care, mental health, education, and improving quality of life for low-income communities, children and babies, and the unsheltered. Each of the following agencies received $7,500:
- American Red Cross
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ozarks
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Springfield
- Care to Learn
- CASA of Southwest Missouri
- Cents of Pride
- Child Advocacy Center
- Community Partnership of the Ozarks
- Crosslines Community Outreach
- Developmental Center of the Ozarks
- Doula Foundation of Mid America
- Drew Lewis Foundation Inc.
- East Grand Community Services
- Foster Adopt Connect Springfield
- Foundation for Springfield Public Schools
- Friends of the Garden
- Friends of the Zoo
- GLO Center
- Habitat for Humanity of Springfield
- Harmony House
- Help Give Hope
- Isabel's House
- Junior Achievement in Southwest Missouri
- The Kitchen Inc.
- Least Of These Inc.
- Lost and Found Grief Center
- Missouri State University/Ozarks Public Television
- Newborns In Need
- Ozark Trails Council/Scouting America
- Ozarks Food Harvest
- Ozarks Literacy Council
- PFLAG Springfield
- The Salvation Army
- Springfield Community Gardens
- Springfield Regional Arts Council
- Springfield Sister Cities Association
- Ujima Language and Literacy
- The Victim Center Inc.
- Women's Medical Respite
Nursing Scholarship Grants
Health care education is a specific grantmaking priority of the Musgrave Foundation. For the 2025 University Nursing Scholarship program, five institutions each received $30,000 to provide scholarships to students in the nursing education path:
- Cox College
- Drury University
- Missouri State University Foundation
- Ozarks Technical Community College
- Southwest Baptist University
The CFO and the Musgrave Foundation presented a $100,000 grant to the OTC Foundation support Ozark Tech’s Wingspan Initiative. From left to right: Cray Allred and Elizabeth Van Ness, OTC Foundation; Winter Kinne, CFO; and Michele Risdal-Barnes, Musgrave Foundation.
Wingspan Initiative Year 3
OTC Foundation received the final $100,000 grant to support the Wingspan Initiative at Ozarks Technical Community College. Launched in 2023, the program supports single parents, primarily single mothers, with funding for living expenses and child care during their time as students at OTC. The program’s primary goals are to support parents financially beyond tuition assistance, allowing for up to $10,000 a year for life expenses that would impede the parent’s ability to graduate on schedule. The Musgrave Foundation supported the program with $300,000 in funding over three years.
“Jeannette L. Musgrave and Jerry Redfern established wonderful philanthropic legacies that we are honored to continue,” said Winter Kinne, president and CEO of the CFO. “Their love of the Springfield community is reflected in the important work supported by these grants.”
The Musgrave Foundation’s distribution committee is chaired by Rob Baird and includes Emily Bowen-Marler, Emily Denniston, Ferba Lofton, Peggy Riggs, Michele Risdal-Barnes and Thomas Slaight, with support from Ashley Fleming, the CFO’s director of community impact.
The Jeannette L. Musgrave Foundation is a private charitable foundation managed by U.S. Bank Private Wealth Management and administered by the CFO. Since 1983, the Musgrave Foundation has granted more than $21 million to nonprofits in Springfield and southwest Missouri.
