· Public charity
Area Resources for Community & Human Services
To improve the lives of greater st.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of AREA RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+15 grants · $25M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOSTER AND ADOPTIVE CARE COALITION OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $6,782,892 |
| URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS | $3,081,302 |
| ANNIE MALONE CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES | $3,031,302 |
| UNITED 4 CHILDREN | $2,815,688 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $1,767,196 |
| BETTER FAMILY LIFE INC | $1,582,639 |
| FATHERS AND FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER | $1,197,031 |
| GENERATE HEALTH STL | $886,058 |
| EMPLOYMENT CONNECTION | $823,983 |
| BRIDGING FAMILIES TO COMMUNITIES AND BEYOND | $702,458 |
| THE VILLAGE | $453,013 |
| MOKAN CCAC | $443,161 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $436,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS | $399,246 |
| GENE SLAY'S GIRLS AND BOYS CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC | $268,030 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $31.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
- FCFOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS9× · 2017–2025 · $28M · revenue +300% · 54% of their budget
- ULURBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS8× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +184%
- BFBETTER FAMILY LIFE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $12M · revenue +3% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $221k
- 4W4 WALLS AND BEYONDone grant, 2024 · $193k
- WRWE RISE UP 4 KIDSone grant, 2021 · $134k · 96% of their budget
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.
Enhance the opportunities and quality of life for children and youth with disabilities. the organization achieves this objective through parent training, emotional support, direct advocacy, community education, self-advocacy and navigation…
Community Development and Community Center and social services
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…
Teaching and mentoring
Behavioral Health Network is a collaborative effort of providers working together to improve our community by leading behavioral health planning and coordination.
The St. Louis Workers Education Society (WES) educates and trains St. Louis residents, especially people of color, women and youth, to become community leaders. Our focus is on the intersection of workers rights, racial justice, sexual and…
The Education Equity Center of St. Louis advances a regional approach to achieving full racial equity in education by building anti-racist capacity towards systems level practices and policy changes.
DEDC was created to assist in the development of programs & projects that address specific needs and contribute to improving East St. Louis.
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…
Earlystart carries out its mission "building bridges. inspiring minds. impacting futures." through the earlystart child and family development centers. highly-trained faculty utilize a project-based curriculum in an arts-infused…
Kids Win Missouri furthers child well-being by advancing the health, education, safety and development of Missouri children and their families, especially those who are at-risk because of poverty, abuse, neglect, racial inequities or other…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Better Family Life Inc and the most unlike its peers is Health Literacy Media. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 87 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
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 FOSTER CARE COALITION OF GREATER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF METROPOLITAN ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BETTER FAMILY LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MISSOURI ↗
- Who funds Annie Malone Children and Family Service ↗
- Who funds CHILD DAY CARE ASSOCIATION OF ST LOUIS D/B/A UNITED 4 CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FATHERS SUPPORT CENTER ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Provident Inc ↗
- Who funds UNLEASHING POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds EMPLOYMENT CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds STRAY DOG THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Bridging Families to Communities and Beyond ↗
- Who funds MISSION ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds AMANDA LUCKETT MURPHY HOPEWELL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MO KAN CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MIDTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD OPPORTUNITIES CORP ↗
- Who funds MERSMISSOURI GOODWILL INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds GENE SLAY'S BOYS' CLUB OF ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LITERACY MEDIA ↗
- Who funds NURSES FOR NEWBORNS ↗
- Who funds MARK TWAIN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS ARC INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATE HEALTH STL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds NEW MADRID CO HUMAN RESOURCES COUNCIL COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR THE ELDERLY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE YOUTH AND SENIOR SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIVERVIEW WEST FLORISSANT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Village ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP OF THE OZARKS INC ↗
- Who funds Living With Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds CRIME VICTIM ADVOCACY CENTER OF ST LOUIS ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Norman J Stupp Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · St Louis Community Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · World Wide Technology Foundation · Pott Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Generate Health Stl
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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Area Resources for Community & Human Services funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.