· Private foundation
Ameren Charitable Trust (Union Electric
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 223 grants below total $5,655,204 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,569,154 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $913,950 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k151 grants · $225k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST. LOUIS | $1,584,081 |
| GREATER ST. LOUIS, INC. | $300,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP FND OF ST. LOUIS | $270,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN | $250,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN STL | $250,000 |
| STL RGNL ADVNCD MANFCTRNG INVTN | $250,000 |
| BEYOND HOUSING INC | $200,000 |
| KIDSMART TOOLS FOR LEARNING | $200,000 |
| ST LOUIS FOOD BANK | $200,000 |
| HEAT UP ST. LOUIS INC | $100,000 |
| CONCORDANCE | $100,000 |
| CARDINAL RITTER COLLEGE PREPRTRY | $100,000 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN STL | $100,000 |
| DELMAR DIVINE CHARITABLE FND | $100,000 |
| VARIETY | $100,000 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 175 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $313k · revenue +21%
- HUHEAT UP ST LOUIS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +106%
- SLSt Louis Police Foundation2× · 2022–2023 · $250k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, ST LOUISone grant, 2022 · $300k
- GSGREATER ST. LOUIS INC FOUNDATIONDATIONone grant, 2023 · $300k
- GSGREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Economic development.
Embracing the ferguson commission's mandate, forward through ferguson centers impacted communities and mobilizes accountable bodies to advance racially equitable systems and policies that ensure all people in the st. louis region can…
The slc3 is a community of design and construction industry professionals with a common interest in the betterment of our region through prioritizing innovation, continuing education, equity empowerment and all-inclusive workforce…
To improve the lives of greater st. louis' residents by convening strategic community partnerships.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Founded In 2018, Teach St. Louis (formerly St. Louis Teacher Residency) launched to improve teacher quality and retention in St. Louis, a city where 40% of new teachers exit the classroom in their first three years. Teach St. Louis…
The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
Community Development and Community Center and social services
Providing day care services to infants and children of low income families in northern st. louis county, missouri
The community foundation of central missouri inspires and nurtures philanthropy for the public good.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heat Up St Louis Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gro Health Center Po Box 771342. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
142 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 142 of the 338 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LOUIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds HEAT UP ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ST LOUIS INC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds St Louis Police Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONCORDANCE ↗
- Who funds GREAT RIVERS GREENWAY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds HOME WORKS - THVP ↗
- Who funds VARIETY THE CHILDRENS CHARITY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds National Merit Scholarship Corporation ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BOARD OF TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds KIDSMART INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · World Wide Technology Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Moneta Group Charitable Foundation · Centene Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
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