· Private foundation
Arthur & Helen Baer Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER | $75,000 |
| JAZZ ST LOUIS | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| RANKEN JORDAN PEDIATRIC BRIDGE HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| BJC FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| THE BACKSTOPPERS | $15,000 |
| BOOKS FOR STL KIDS | $15,000 |
| ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA | $12,500 |
| USO OF MISSOURI INC | $11,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS & ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTS | $7,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $5,000 |
| 100 NEEDIEST CASES | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $436k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- SLST LOUIS UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2023 · $217k · revenue +9%
- TRThe Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children5× · 2020–2024 · $195k · revenue +38%
- TSTHE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $85k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SFSHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +71%
- CGCONSULATE GENERAL OF JAMAICAone grant, 2020 · $15k
- GMGOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +79%
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.
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
Jewish federation of st. louis mobilizes the jewish community and its human and financial resources to preserve and enhance jewish life in st. louis, in israel and around the world.
The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.
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…
Mission: st. louis empowers individuals for social and economic growth through relationships and opportunity.
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.
Economic development.
The saint louis zoo association was established to support and enhance the saint louis zoo by providing facilities, funds, and advice. the association provides direct financial support to the zoo for renovations, new facilities, programs,…
Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.
The sole purpose of the foundation is to support the saint louis art museum, including but not limited to fundraising and other activities and assisting in financing expansion and renovation of its facilities.
Community Development and Community Center and social services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services of St Louis and the most unlike its peers is Good Mews Animal Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 27 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 SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER ↗
- Who funds JAZZ ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Ranken-Jordan Home For Convalescent Crippled Children ↗
- Who funds THE SHELDON ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATION USO OF MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER ST LOUIS ARTS AND EDUCATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds LIFT FOR LIFE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKS FOR STL KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE BACKSTOPPERS INC FKA POLICEMEN & FIREMEN FUND OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD FOREST CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS VOLUNTEER LAWYERS AND ACCOUNTANTS FOR THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD MEWS ANIMAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Migrant and Immigrant Community Action Project ↗
- Who funds PEDAL THE CAUSE ↗
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 · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Jewish Federation of St Louis · Edward Jones Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Jordan Mary R & Ettie a Charitable · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · World Wide Technology 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Arthur & Helen Baer Charitable Foundation 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.